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From: alan@uts.amdahl.com (Alan Bomberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A3000,1.3,2.0 HELP!!!
Date: 12 Nov 92 17:33:37 GMT
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA


Alas, I have found most of the games I liked on the 500
don't work on the 3000 even with the 1.3 kickstart.

To many hot shots went directly the the now changed
hardware.  Investment down the drain.  

-- 
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Amdahl Corporation | Opinions are free, worth it, and not Amdahl's

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: cmd1@wuecl.wustl.edu (Chris Dunphy)
Subject: Can my A4000 be a tower???
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 02:15:58 GMT

   I will have a 4000 on my desk in about two weeks, but there
is a small problem.  Specifically, I have a small desk.  My
1000 and monitor leaves 1/3 of an inch clearance over it.  
(Before you suggest a bigger desk...  I have a built into
the wall dorm desk with a shelf permenently above it.)

   Anyways, the 4000 with a monitor on top of it will be too
high for my desk.  So what shall I do?  Would there be any
problem putting the 4000 on it's side?  How long are the
keyboard and monitor and mouse cables?  How hard would it
be to get extended length versions.  Any suggestions
would be greatly appreciated...

	Chris Dunphy (cmd1@cec2.wustl.edu)

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: treczoks@rhea.Informatik.Uni-Bonn.DE
Subject: A500 Rev6a Memory problem
Reply-To: treczoks@rhea.Informatik.Uni-Bonn.DE
Organization: Want to sell one?
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 19:05:50 GMT

Dear Hardware Hackers,
I've got an old A500 Rev 6a on my table, and, as I've got no board
information/schematics, I've got a question:
At the front (keyboard side) of the board there is the memory, half a meg
of chipmem (4 x 256, 4 pcs), and 4 empty places named U20 to U23, with
according capacitors named C20 to C23. I just populated them with the
chips and caps, but the memory doesn't show up, although the text above
the empty sockets states "512K/1Meg Memory".
Q1: Do I have to jumper some things around?
Q2: Do the places for resistor packs halfway beween the memory and the
    ROM (Approximately...), which are labled RP109 and RP111 have to be
    populated? And if so, with what (680 K?)?

This question is rather urgent, as this machine is the only Amiga
in our local computer club... and they want it back soon, with more chip ;)

Yours, Christian Treczoks (TRECZOKS@Rhea.Informatik.Uni-Bonn.de)
From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Fujitsu 340 HSMD Drive???
Date: 5 Nov 92 07:28:11 GMT
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <1992Nov4.232325.1601@msus1.msus.edu> martin@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU writes:
> I recently aquired 2 Fujitsu M2333K 368MB HSMD hard disks....is there
> any way i can interface these with my amiga short of having a custom
> board built?
> 
> I have complete (200 pages complete) specs for the drives if there are any
> questions....I would really like to know if these are usable as soon as
> possible as I am intending to start a BBS up if I can get them to work.

I don't know of any Amiga SMD boards.  There are chips from National and
NEC that do a fair part towards a SMD interface, but your best bet is probably
to find someone willing to trade for some kind of SCSI drives.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: mlelstv@speckled.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
Subject: Re: My A4000 HD performance
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut f"ur Radioastronomie
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 03:42:48 GMT

In <1992Nov1.030034.20922@beaver.cs.washington.edu> rrogers@cs.washington.edu (Richard Rogers) writes:
>Something very strange seems to be going on with my 4000's hard drives!
>DiskSpeed 3.1 reports that my Maxtor 7120 / 2091 is doing 29 K/s
>(Yes, that's 29000 bytes) reads with all contention turned off.  The internal
>floppy is managing 21 K/s.  This seems a bit ridiculous.

No. It is pretty normal. The A2091 cannot DMA to any memory but chip
memory in your A4000. Thus the filesystem will allocate a single buffer
(512bytes) in chip memory to do file transfers. This lets your drive
transfer a single sector per disk revolution. Theoretically one can
some patched driver from C= that turns DMA completely off and enables
PIO mode for the A2091. This is of course CPU burning and slow but still
much faster than this last chance method used by the filesystem.

Regards,
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From: ceg@bret.jpl.nasa.gov (Chuck Goodhart)
Subject: Re: Parity
Keywords: parity RAM errors.
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Pasadena, CA
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 15:55:30 GMT

In article <erd.04mw@kumiss.cmhnet.org> erd@kumiss.cmhnet.org
(Ethan Dicks) writes:
>EDC (Error Detection and Correction) is also known as ECC (why, I don't
>know).  On Unibus VAXen, ECC memory is 10 bits/byte; it can *correct*
>single bit errors and detect double bit errors.

Could you either post the details about how VAXen achieve this,
or point out the flaw in the following argument:

With 10 bits you have 2^10 (=1024) different bit patterns.  In order to
encode 8 data bits you need 2^8 (=256) of these to be valid.

Each valid pattern generates a set of 11 patterns, one valid and 10
which are a single bit flip away from the valid pattern.  None of
these 10 can be valid patterns, or a single bit error could go
undetected, let alone uncorrected.  Further, none of them can be
a single bit flip away from some other valid pattern, or you would
have single bit errors which would have two (or more) equally likely
correction paths, thus being uncorrectable.

At this point, however, we need 256*11 (=2816) different patterns,
since there can be no overlap among the 256 sets of 11 patterns.
-- 
Chuck Goodhart, ceg@bret.jpl.nasa.gov
From: dlarson@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dale Larson - Product Assurance)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Help! Networking an Amiga and a Mac
Date: 5 Nov 92 13:53:35 GMT
Reply-To: dlarson@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dale Larson - Product Assurance)
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Organization: Commodore Engineering


Since this is a networking question, follow-ups redirected to
comp.sys.amiga.datacomm.

In article <1992Nov5.113814.6569@aston.ac.uk> williabv@cs.aston.ac.uk writes:
>I have recently come by a basic Mac, and I'd like to network it to my Amiga,
>so that the Mac could mount the Amiga's hard drive as a file server via 
>Appleshare.  Is this possible, and has anyone done it?

You can purchase Amiga AppleTalk products from a few different vendors.  One
such product is the Zorro-II DoubleTalk 2000.  I mention it only because it's
in an ad that was sitting on my desk -- $399.  I haven't used it myself, and
neither I nor Commodore endorse, etc., etc.

There might be more info in the Amiga networking FAQ which hasn't been posted
in a long time.


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From: dac@dacami.cmhnet.org (David Culberson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Fujitsu 340 HSMD Drive???
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
Date: 7 Nov 92 16:43:01 EST
Organization: Connectivity Inc, Culberson Plaza

In article <36695@cbmvax.commodore.com> grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
> In article <1992Nov4.232325.1601@msus1.msus.edu> martin@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU writes:
> > I recently aquired 2 Fujitsu M2333K 368MB HSMD hard disks....is there
> > any way i can interface these with my amiga short of having a custom
> > board built?
> > 
> > I have complete (200 pages complete) specs for the drives if there are any
> > questions....I would really like to know if these are usable as soon as
> > possible as I am intending to start a BBS up if I can get them to work.
> 
> I don't know of any Amiga SMD boards.  There are chips from National and
> NEC that do a fair part towards a SMD interface, but your best bet is probably
> to find someone willing to trade for some kind of SCSI drives.

  You could get an SCSI to SMD converter.  These can be found in older Sun
machines, and maybe on the used market seperately.  I've never tried one
with an Amiga, but they should work.

            David

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Fujitsu 340 HSMD Drive???
From: martin@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU
Date: 5 Nov 92 10:59:13 -0600
Reply-To: martin@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU
Organization: St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN

In article <36695@cbmvax.commodore.com>, grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
>In article <1992Nov4.232325.1601@msus1.msus.edu> martin@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU writes:
>> I recently aquired 2 Fujitsu M2333K 368MB HSMD hard disks....is there
>> any way i can interface these with my amiga short of having a custom
>> board built?
>>
>I don't know of any Amiga SMD boards.  There are chips from National and
>NEC that do a fair part towards a SMD interface, but your best bet is probably
>to find someone willing to trade for some kind of SCSI drives.

Any ideas off hand how much those chips cost in single units?  The reason I
can't really trade with someone is I am not sure if the drives are both
fully functional, and have no way to check them out till I get a controller.
Unless you are willing to trade with me.. :) say a 420 Quantum for 2 368
Fujitsus...plus cases and power supplies....nah...didn't think so.  



>
>-- 
>George Robbins - now working for,     work:   to be avoided at all costs...

Jim

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From: "hammed malik" <hammed.malik@canrem.com>
Subject: portable a600?
Reply-To: "hammed malik" <hammed.malik@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 11 Nov 92 01:43:25 EST

>Could we possibly have this discussion on American politics stopped as
>it is not of any interest to the rest of the world.

...but didn't you know that America IS the world? :-)  Take the 'World
Series' for example.  There are only TWO countries that play in this
'WORLD Series'.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: larsent@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (LARSEN  TORE HOIVAAG)
Subject: US A4000 tu Europa?
Summary: Can I bring a A4000 back to Europa with me?
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 22:28:45 GMT

Can this be done?
If not without modifications, is these major?
Tor:)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ben Scott)
Subject: Re: Connecting a HD-drive?
Summary: Pricing on FB-357A 
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 21:42:26 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.181807.6002@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran) writes:
>running 2.04. Contact your local dealer for availability of these drives.
>In Canada they retail for ~$120.

$120 Canadian?!?  My local dealer wants $160 US for them!

Will your local dealer ship to Colorado?

Or does anyone in the U.S. know a place that'll send me one cheaper?  A
client of mine wants one, and has taxpayer dollars to spend, but I'd still
like to get him a better deal than $160!!

.                           <<<<Infinite K>>>>

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From: ralph@bugend.edvina.se (Staffan Vilcans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: PC, Redneck President, and other bad news. (was Re: Amiga 1200)
Date: 13 Nov 92 11:22:38 GMT
Organization: Bugend BBS

ggg@kepler.unh.edu (Gregory G Greene) writes:

> 	Yes, I do.  But its not possible in the US anymore.  The democratic
>    congress has seen to that.  They put a ban on all imported semi-automatic
>    assault rifles, but domestic semi-automatic assualt rifles are fine.  I'm
>    sure this made the domestic assault rifle manufacturers very happy but it
>    doesn't make much sense to me.  I don't understand all the fear about
>    semi-automatic assault rifles to begin with.  Congress now wants to ban
>    rifles by how they look.  

Oh dear, poor little Greg can't have a semi-automatic assault rifle to 
play with... :-)

Actually, what use would you have for it except shooting people and use 
it to threaten them? Why aren't you complaining about that you can't 
your own private bazooka, SAM-system, H-bomb and so on...


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: mvelzen@fwi.uva.nl (Marc van Velzen)
Subject: Re: PC, Redneck President, and other bad news. (was Re: Amiga 1200)
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 12:28:09 GMT

Get this american orientated sh*t off this group and take it to alt.flame,
and preferrably with a distribution limited to the US. 

I would expect a little more judgement from some of you (Dave H.) than 
bringing politics to _any_ comp.sys.*.* group, _especially_ to c.s.a.hardware 
(c.s.a.advocacy is full of it as it is, but _crossposting_ this!?? really!).

To bring one of the subjects from the subject-line back into the discussion: 

What will the A1200 cost in the US? How about other countries? I think that 
the UK price will be about 400 British Pounds (but since there's no telling 
what those'll be worth a week from now... :-). 

What else should be replaced when ugrading from 500 to 1200? A590 probably
(there seems little point in keeping that already way too slow harddisk),
but is it possible to keep it for the transition period?  

Exciting times for true Amiga fans everywhere. Thanks Dave H. and all other
Cmdre engineers for keeping things going. Here's to MORE POWER. 

'nough said,
Marc van Velzen (mvelzen@fwi.uva.NL)

PS: Don't even _think_ of flaming me 'bout one or two words I might have
    spelled wrong (I'll flame you back in my own language (word distribution),
    see how you like that!).
From: boing@mcl.ucsb.edu (Geff Hanoian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: amiga 1200 specs - fr
Date: 7 Nov 92 22:25:58 GMT
Distribution: comp

>>Reality check please!!! Take a look at an A4000: Ok, it has four slots.
>>expansion, a case of A4000 size *is* *full*! I don't see a chance how to
>>fit all this stuff in a case like the A1000, which is ca. half of that
>>height.
>>Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to \\  Only my personal opinions...

>I think it is painfully clear that Commodore, and any other computer
>manufacturer could gain a few things by looking at the insides of a 
>Sun IPX.
>-- 
	Are we talking about the same IPX with 4 expansion slots????

	thought not.

	boing
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From: cshort@nmsu.edu (MetaPope, Internet in a Day Tour.)
Subject: Re: Portable A600?
Organization: Computing Research Lab
	<1992Nov1.073246.4734@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
	<Bx2Lyv.4Cp@news.iastate.edu>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 21:54:02 GMT

>>>>> On Mon, 2 Nov 1992 04:04:06 GMT, barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) said:

>   Here's an even scarier thought: if the Democrats in Congress had succeeded
>in preventing us from going to war against Iraq, Iraq would posess nuclear
>weapons right now, would control 1/3 of the world's oil reserves, gas prices
>would be at their highest point in history, and we would be electing Bill
>Clinton or another Democrat by a landslide, and the Democratic party would be
>getting ready to control all of Congress and the Presidency.  BRRRRRR!!!!

ahem, clinton _was_ elected by a landslide. the democrats control the
presidency and most of the congress.

commodore has started releasing competetive machines again. they've
even started advertising.

marc barrett, welcome to hell.

c. (who giggles himself to sleep every night)

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From: eyvind@Lise.Unit.NO (Eyvind Bernhardsen)
Subject: GVP HD problems...
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 12:23:33 GMT

My HD is acting up - the drive keeps powering down for no reason (the fan and LEDs
stay on, though), giving the standard 'Drive DHx: has a read-write error' message.
I then have to wait for it to power up again, before clicking on 'Retry'.  I had
this problem when it was new, too, but solved it by removing the little metallic
thing (gee, don't you just love these technical terms? :), as advised by the
shop I bought it from, and the problem went away.  For about a month.  So, does
anyone else have this problem (and if possible a solution would be nice :)?

-Eyvind

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From: mike@Turing.ORG (Michael Chapman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: What in the WORLD is this monitor?
Date: 9 Nov 92 05:09:45 GMT
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.


I need some help identifying a 16" color monitor.  All I know is it's
a "FIMI-PHILIPS Model FC16N" with a manufacture date of march '88.

It's got 3 BNC connectors on the back (R,G and B of course).

If anyone knows what this monitor is, help is greatly appreciated 
(Email if you would).

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I hate to toot my own horn... 

But I guess being flexible has its advantages.
From: tron@uni-paderborn.de (Matthias Scheler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 1200 Display Modes?
Date: 8 Nov 92 17:17:30 GMT
Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn, Germany
NNTP-Posting-Host: esche.uni-paderborn.de

In article <Bx8qu1.IK3@kingston.ac.uk>, ee_c420@ceres (Philip Trickett) writes:
|> 
|> 	I was just wondering if the A1200 has DBLPAL mode like the
|> 	A4000
|> 	Phil

Sure, but you need a MultiSync to display that mode.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: aramsey@ugly.UVic.CA (Aaron  Ramsey)
Subject: Hook up an IBM internal modem to my 500?
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 15:03:55 GMT

Is there any possible way to create some sort of connecter to do this?
I have my hands on a 9600 baud modem that is an IBM internal, and would
like to use it with my 500.... can I rig something up, or should I
sell it, and buy an external modem?
From: Mike_Noreen@anet.bbs.bad.se (Mike Noreen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Secondary CPU cache for the Amiga
Date: Tue,  3 Nov 92 18:35:10 +0000
Reply-To: Mike_Noreen@anet.bbs.bad.se (Mike Noreen)
Distribution: world
Organization: ANet Development, Marsta, SWEDEN 
OD-Comment-To: Internet_Gateway

> CHEAP?! Do you have ANY IDEA of what you're talking about? While DRAM may be
> cheap, FAST SRAM is NOT. As DaveH and some others have told, 040 is cheaper
> and more effective power boost than 030 and external cache.

Yes, but if you've already got a A3000 (with '030), wouldn't it be rather nice 
to double performance using - say - 512k SRAM? This wouldnt have to be very 
expensive; less than one tenth of an average '040 accelerator for the A3000...

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From: TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Portable A600?
Date: Mon,  9 Nov 92 15:49:33 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <36501@cbmvax.commodore.com><1992Nov1.073246.4734@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu><Bx2
 Lyv.4Cp@news.iastate.edu> <CSHORT.92Nov6145403@sparta.nmsu.edu>

>ahem, clinton _was_ elected by a landslide.

Really? Does 43% to 38% pass for a landslide these days?

TomK@cup.portal.com
Tom Krotchko
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