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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: What disks work with 2.88 MB drives???
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:00:43 GMT

In article <1i9g8vINNs44@tamsun.tamu.edu> edb9140@tamsun.tamu.edu
(XXX) writes: 

>We'll these drives are still fairly new.  The disks that you need to
>use in the drive is the ED(Extended Densisty) disks.  I've only seen
>them once at CompUSA for an outragous $70.00 for 10 disks.  Personally
>I see no reason to get a 2.88 drive until the price of disks drop.
>Also supposidly the 1.44 and 720k disks will work in the drives.  > >

Wonder how long it will be before the disk hole punch people 
will come out with a 1.44 -> 2.88 punch  9-)














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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: warren@wam.umd.edu (the stupid one)
Subject: Re: Clock glitch or...virus?
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:58:02 GMT

on a related subject:
there's a game called "space goose" (shareware, or was it pd?)
available from info.umd.edu in info/Computers/PC/AfterHours/Recreation
sg??.zip
which makes the dos time run at 2 or 3 times normal speed while you're 
playing i.e. if you play for five minutes your clock will be 5 or 10
minutes fast afterwards
i do not understand this, wondered if the programmer thought it would
make the clock slow and tried to compensate for that and overdid it?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Subject: Magtron hard disks - heard of them?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 05:37:20 GMT

A place called Source Electronics is selling these dirt cheap, and
they say that they are new.  I have certainly never heard of them,
but for $799 for a 760 MB and $1199 for a 1.2 GB, you have to at
least look at them! (SCSI of course) I think that comes with only a
120 day warranty but I imagine you can pay more and get up to a 1yr.
(Actually the 1.2GB drive comes with a 1 yr warranty)
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From: van@venice.sedd.trw.com (Ken VanCovering)
Subject: EISA bus specifications
Organization: TRW Systems Engineering & Development Division, Carson, CA
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Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 00:12:01 GMT


Does anyone know where I can get hold of the bus specs for ISA and EISA?
We are interested in prototyping some custom interfaces on cards for the
PC and need to know timing, pinouts, handshake sequences and tolerances.

Also are there any software considerations we need to be aware of?

Thanks,

Ken VanCouvering
van@venice.sedd.trw.com

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: rene@hal.et.tudelft.nl (Rene Bodenstaff)
Subject: Re: Parallel port as input port
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 12:35:26 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.055420.10172@nuscc.nus.sg>, scip2060@nusunix1.nus.sg (SARDJONO INSANI) writes:
> [ Article crossposted from comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc ]
> [ Author was SARDJONO INSANI ]
> [ Posted on Fri, 8 Jan 1993 05:49:52 GMT ]
> 
> 
> Hi,
> Is is possible to set the parallel port of PC as input port? Has
> anybody tried this or know of other methods of transferring data
> one byte at a time to the PC?
> 
> Thanks

  Only a few days ago I spend some time reverse-engineering my 
  old Hercules-printer card. I, just like you, wanted to know
  wether it would be possible to read data in via the parallel port.
  For my card, the answer is NO. There are only 8 data_out lines and
  some control signals available. However it is possible to read data
  in your computer via the parallel port: there are a few handshake
  signals that can be used for this purpose (like printer online/offline,
  etc.). If you really want to control your parallel port, you have to
  go all the way down to BIOS level. You need the following info then:
  DOS interrupts + the Centronics definitions + some info of your printer
  card (use voltmeter :-) ).

  Have fun. 
 
       ---< Sonic says: "more haste is more speed" >---
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: davis@ee.ualberta.ca (Roland Davis)
Subject: OLD Epson HomeWriter 10 Anyone Help Me?
Summary: need to find pin connections
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 01:50:15 GMT

A while back I acquired an old Epson HomeWriter 10 printer.  I wrote to
Epson but the said that they have discontinued the thing.  Anyways what
I need to do is to connect it to my parallel port some how.  It is an
IBM printer but it looks like the adapter to plug in your normal parallel
cable is missing so I will have to make my own.  If someone out there
has a old Epson HomeWriter 10 that is trashed and wouldn't mind selling a
few parts or if someone would be nice enough to tell me what pins from
the parallel port to connect into the back of the slot then that would
be much appreciated.  Mail me: davis@bode.ee.ualberta.ca or leave a 
response here.  Thanks.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: jgreen@csd.harris.com (Joe Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Gateway2000 486DX-33 ??
Date: 8 Jan 1993 23:44:16 GMT
Organization: Harris Computer Systems Division
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John Manning (j_manning@csc32.enet.dec.com) wrote:
>		 I would like to get one of the gateway machines without the
> Ultra Pro LB so that I can get a faster card but those rascals only discount
> the price by $190 to remove the card.  Street price for the 1MB version
> seems to be about $450 or so.  They either get the cards at a BIG discount
> or they do not want to sell the machines without the video card...

A big discount is right.  I've been talking to Gateway about buying the card
as an upgrade (i.e., I already have a system), and they only want $210 for it.

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From: cover@muteball.gatech.edu (Steve Cover)
Subject: USA - Flex Experiences wanted
Reply-To: cover@muteball.gatech.edu
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 19:48:32 GMT


I would appreciate it if anyone with experience (good or bad) with USA Flex
would send those experiences to me.  E-mail preferably.

Thanx,
  Steve

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Datapoint:  phone number anyone?
From: noren@trident.datasys.swri.edu (Greg Noren)
Date: 7 Jan 93 18:56:49 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Southwest Research Institute

In article <93Jan06.161042.15807@acs.ucalgary.ca> titus@smith.phys.ucalgary.ca (Titus Mathews) writes:
>
>Does anyone have the phone number to Datapoint, which I believe is associated 
>with ARCnet networks?

Sorry about the post, e-mail bounced.  General information for Datapoint here
in San Antonio is (210)593-7000.  And you are correct - their ARCNET is one 
of the original token-ring network designs.

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Southwest Research Institute              (210)522-5499 (just the FAX)
Internet:  noren@trident.datasys.swri.edu (129.162.50.211)
From: marie@vax1.mankato.msus.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: 2.88 Mb FD problems
Date: 4 Jan 93 15:06:24 GMT
Organization: Mankato State University

I purchased a TEAC 2.88 Mb floppy a month ago, but haven't got it working yet.
Not for 720k, 1.44 Mb, anything....

Do I need a special controller?  I've tried various combinations of the
CONFIG.SYS driveparm options, to no avail.  Also messed with CMOS settings
(Which doesn't list a 2.88) fruitlessly.
From: slqn0@cc.usu.edu (Hoyt J. Heaton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Where is Centrix computer?
Date: 4 Jan 93 17:47:22 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

Does anyone know if Centrix computer is dead for good?
I tried calling tech support and the main number, but both were disconnected...

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From: clemens@faui8a.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Clemens Beckstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: NO ROM BASIC, SYSTEM HALTED ???
Date: 4 Jan 93 16:08:26 GMT
Organization: Regionales Rechenzentrum Erlangen
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rubin@procon.jhuapl.edu (Don Rubin) writes:


>I have been fooling around with a new motherboard
>and some disks and get the following message when
>I try to boot a 340mb IDE drive

>NO ROM BASIC
>SYSTEM HALTED

>I was previously able to put a DOS 5.0 system
>on this disk and boot it, but now the same disk
>gives this error on two different motherboards
>but a 137mb disk boots fine on both systems.

>What does it mean and what do I do to fix it.?

>Also, does anyone know about a program that you
>can software boot another disk from. eg. boot
>a floppy and then have it boot a hard drive?

The disk you try to boot from probably has no boot record.
Your machine therefore is trying to start ROM Basic
(which is only available on true IBM machines)...
This also explains why zou can boot from that other 137mb drive with no 
problems...

- Clemens
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mtichy@fraser.sfu.ca (Martin Tichy)
Subject: Re: VLB Machines and Bus Mastering - AIR Motherboards
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 09:23:22 GMT

> From what I have read the current VESA open standard for local bus
> does not support bus mastering. The VESA II spec does support it
> but it is still under revision. Intel is working on a standard for
> local bus that apparently does support bus mastering but I don't
> think it's been released yet. I don't know if this helps any, but
> at least it adds SOME useful content to a sad excuse for a pun
> posting...
 
You must be thinking of 1st Party DMA, not bus mastering.  The
current VESA VL-BUS spec fully supports bus-mastering.  It does not
support 1st Party DMA though.  The VESA VL-BUS Mezzanine extension
is supposed to support 1st Party DMA, as well as 10 VL-BUS slots,
multi-plexing, as well as the PCI spec.
 

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.dcom.fax
From: lance@hartmann.austin.ibm.com (Lance Hartmann)
Subject: Seeking phone/address on Cardiff Software, Teleform (sp?)
Summary: Seeking phone/address on Cardiff Software, Teleform (sp?)
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 17:51:13 GMT
Reply-To: lance%hartmann.austin.ibm.com@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com
Organization: IBM, Austin
Keywords: pc comm fax software cardiff teleform
Followup-To: poster

In a fairly recent issue of "PC Magazine" an article appears about
great, albeit unpopular, software.  The article cited some FAX software
called "Teleform" (?) by Cardiff Software.  I believe those were the names.
Anyhow, missing from the article was a list of vendors/addresses.  Does
anyone have any info on the above?  Phone number?  Address?

Thanks in advance to all,
Lance Hartmann (lance%hartmann.austin.ibm.com@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com)
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From: ajnuttal@teaching.cs.adelaide.edu.au (Tony Nuttall)
Subject: Vga cards and monitors and stuff .....
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 11:22:31 CST
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I currently have an ancient herc card attached to my 386 and I thinkly heavily 
about giving it the heave ho and going to vga. 

So  i) what exactly is a hi-sierra ramdac and what will it do me ?  If I buy 
       a plain vga card now, can I upgrade later.

    ii) Are true-colour good vga card that much more expensive and are there 
        any performance penalties involved in 24-bit colour ?
   
    iii) I haven't got all that much to spend so can I use a vga mono monitor
         with any graphics cards to get grey scale output ( some kind of 
         supplied TSR perhaps ? )

Thanks in advance

tony
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From: mag6@po.CWRU.Edu (Martin A. Gulaian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: ATI Ultra PRO New Drivers (build 53)
Date: 10 Jan 1993 00:38:58 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: mag6@po.CWRU.Edu (Martin A. Gulaian)
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In a previous article, mrosen@nyx.cs.du.edu (Michael Rosen) says:

>Please upload this to a ftp site.
>
>Thanks,
>Mike
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>Michael.Rosen@bbs.oit.unc.edu or @lambada.oit.unc.edu
>

The build 53 drivers are at CICA (ftp.cica.indiana.edu) in /uploads/pro53.zip

Marty
From: rme81977@zach.fit.edu (Brian Fritz/ ADVISOR Russell (MAE))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Math coprocessor question - Use a 387-40 in a 386-33?
Date: 7 Jan 93 19:34:09 GMT
Organization: Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne USA

In article <sch2.725598081@crux1.cit.cornell.edu> sch2@crux2.cit.cornell.edu (Stephen Hsieh) writes:
>Is it okay to use a Cyrix 387-40 inside my 386-33?  I have a 33mhz and a 40
>mhz computer at home, and I need the coprocessor in the 33mhz system right
>now.  But I'm planning on moving the coprocessor to the 40mhz system in the
>future.
>
>Will I encounter any difficulties?  Are cyrix coprocessors a good brand?
>
>Any info would be appreciated.
>
>Steve

HI Steve,
	I have a similar question...except just the opposite...I want
to know if it's alright to use a 387-33 in a DX-40 system.

		-Brian

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From: ssivakum@ptdcs2.intel.com (Sam Sivakumar)
Subject: Re: What's the deal? My chip says "SX-25"; Norton says "SX-33"
Organization: Intel Corporation -- Aloha, Oregon
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 18:45:02 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.151627.9623@bmers95.bnr.ca> khor@bnr.ca writes:
>|> 
>|> Perhaps they wouldn't give away the latest 486-66/DX2 but surely there 
>|> are old 286 wafers lying around somewhere..
>|> 
>I dunno what they do with the wafers, but they are unsightly.  Good dice
>are taken out to be assembled as IC's and the remaining bad dice scattered
>across the wafer are all inked anyway.
>
	Why, they adorn the walls of the offices of Intel employees, of    
course! :-)
	Actually, after the wafers leave the fabrication line, the backsides
are ground and they are goldplated.  So, any rejected wafers are usually sent
through some kind of reclaim line where all the gold is reclaimed.  Also, the
various layers on the wafers can be stripped off and the wafers can be reused
for various engineering and maintenance type work (not for products, of course).	Of course, a not insignificant percentage of these wafers end up at
the desks of the engineers and technicians.  There are a lot of old timers 
around that have wafers of every size that has been used for production, all
the way from 2 inch diameter to the current 8 inch standard.  I have also
seen 10 inch wafers which I believe are in pilot lines in some places if not
in actual production, and a 12 inch wafer that was the most mindboggling 
thing that I have ever seen.  (Picture attempting to grow a 75 angstrom thick
gate oxide with less than 5 angstroms variation across a 12 inch diameter
piece of silicon!).
	It is quite amazing how far this industry has come in barely 25 years.
The modern 3 million transistor microprocessor is quite possibly the pinnacle
of human technological achievement.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: sld@cbnewse.cb.att.com (steve.l.dennis)
Subject: Tape Backup for graphics files?
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 17:50:35 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware, comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Keywords: tape backup

I am beginning to do some video capture and find the files are quite large.
What I'd like to know is if a tape backup could be used to movethese files
off the disk for storage. I'dlike to move a large number of GIFs off the
hard drive as well. Does the software allow copying selected directories or
files as well as the entire disk? This would make moving files off the disk
for storage much easier. Then I want to be able to restore the files when I
need them. Will this work?

 



Steve Dennis
From: 93gke@williams.edu (oldwanda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: What's the deal? My chip says "SX-25"; Norton says "SX-33"
Date: 7 Jan 1993 17:41:30 GMT
Organization: Williams College, Williamstown, MA
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigbird.cc.williams.edu

In article <1993Jan6.154334@aminet.uucp> barrett%aminet@nuconvex.com writes:
>Could someone post (or email me if posting is inappropriate) the name
>of the vendor that sold you such a system? I'd like to make sure that
>I avoid them in my purchase decision -- especially since I'm planning
>to spend big bucks.

Motherboard warehouse in Tempe, Az. However I should note that they
have happily agreed to accept the return and put in the correct chip.

Greg
93gke@cs.williams.edu
From: vaitkus@lexmark.com (Keith Vaitkus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: PC graphics programming
Date: 7 Jan 93 17:27:36 GMT
Organization: Lexmark International
X-Disclaimer: These views are the poster's and not necessarily those of Lexmark

I want to learn about graphics programming on the PC. So I am posting 
this request in the hope that people can recommend some good resources
(reference books, and into books) on this topic. 

I need info on:

Register/assembly level controls for graphics cards.
How to write device drivers for cards.
The practical differences btw one resolution and another. 
The practical differences btw one card or chip-set and another.

I have no interest in CGA and EGA. So I want to focus on VGA and higher
resolutions, ie XGA, SVGA, etc.

Thanks in advance, and please note that I am looking for _PC_ specific
information and not general graphics algorithms.
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From: d1bgb@dtek.chalmers.se (Bjorn Brynge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: io-ports
Date: 5 Jan 93 15:53:30 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden
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Is there anyone who has got a list over the different port adresses
on the 386/486? I'd like a list which contains the adresses and a short
description of what they are used for.

/Bj|rn Brynge

e-mail: d1bgb@dtek.chalmers.se
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: gaarder@well.sf.ca.us (Steve Gaarder)
Subject: Is Damark's "KLH" monitor any good?
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 23:14:38 GMT

Damark is advertising a couple of VGA monitors at good prices.  The one
that caught my interest is a .31 dot pitch unit bearing the brand name
"KLH" for $190.  Has anyone seen one of these?

Thanks,

Steve Gaarder
gaarder@actech.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: scott@hpcvccl.cv.hp.com (Scott Linn)
Subject: Re: What's the deal? My chip says "SX-25"; Norton says "SX-33"
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 01:38:27 GMT

ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
: Perhaps they test a few processors on a wafer? And if the processors
: fail then the whole wafer is thrown out? Makes sense to me.. perhaps
: what causes problems are registration of masks or bad doping, which 
: would affect entire wafers, not just one chip on the wafer.

Some makers of very small semiconductors will just throw away the ring of
die around the edge, package the rest up, and take the hit during package
test.  Note that this is for a very mature fab process, very small parts,
very cheap packaging.

Lots of fab houses have what is called a "parametric test" which verifies
test structures included on the wafer.  If these fail, then the wafer
would be chucked.  If it passes, then the entire wafer would be tested.
This is because many defects are random: particles, metal problems, etc.

Scott Linn
scott@hpcvccl.cv.hp.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ai076@yfn.ysu.edu (Dan DiPiero)
Subject: Re: 486/66 AIR system Questions
Organization: Youngstown State University/Youngstown Free-Net
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 03:38:46 GMT


  I am also interested in buying some motherboards. I was looking at Zenon
computers, but I don't know much about them. I am pretty sure they use
AIR motherboards, but I don't know of address for AIR, or a distributor.
Are these good boards? I am interested in the VLB/EISA boards. Also, are
there any other suppliers of motherboards that have the VLB/EISA combo?
It seems to me the the Zenon computers are pushing the VESA standard in
offering 3 slots on a 50MHz machine. Royal computers also has a VLB/EISA
at a reasonable price. I called them, and they said their boards are made
by a company called Companion. I never heard of this one. 
  Does anyone have phone numbers or addresses to any of these motherboard
producers? Also does Micronics make a VLB/EISA ? Anybody see any reviews
of these computer dealers - Zenon and Royal? 
                                          thanx
					      Dan-O