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From: goh@deathstar.dell.com (Peter Goh)
Subject: Kodak Photo CD System. Anyone?
Organization: Dell Computer Corporation IS Networking Services
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 17:26:25 GMT

I am on the search for new toys again. I know that Kodak got a couple of 
models out, and I want to know which model would allow me to
save images onto it via my 486 (or can I actually do that at all?). 
Also, does it play CD-ROM too and be used with a sound card?

I would appreciate very much if anyone could give me some info on this.
Thank you very much!

Peter Goh
goh@deathstar.dell.com

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: Is there any merit to the 486SX?
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 19:39:05 GMT

In <1hv2pqINN8mo@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> schottd@ucs.orst.edu (Derek Schott) writes:

>> Obviously if you're buying a 486SX you don't anticipate needing a math
>>coprocessor, and if you had you'd be buying a 486DX.
>>sheldon@iastate.edu                Steve Sheldon
>>Project Vincent                    ICSS Resource Unit
>>SCO ODT, Arc/Info, Atlas GIS       2142 Agronomy Hall

>So to answer my question, who needs a math coprocessor anyways?
>What programs really benefit from it, and how much? It sounds like
>one of those things that might benefit certain applications, but 
>hardly be noticable to the average user.

Under DOS?  A coprocessor buys you improvement for spreadsheet work,
CAD, most sophisticated drawing packages, etc.  Since this is the sort
of thing I would expect high end machines to be used for, I would want
a coprocessor.  If you're just playing (most) games, using a telecom
package, running a BBS, or something like that, then it doesn't buy
you much of anything.

If you run UNIX on it, of course, you are then using X for your GUI,
which *does* use the coprocessor.

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From: rnichols@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (robert.k.nichols)
Subject: Soundblasters & slimline PCs (Was: Packard Bell experiences)
Summary: Known incompatiblity has software fix
Keywords: soundblaster, 82c710
Organization: AT&T
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 21:52:26 GMT

(I'm following up an incomplete article.  My apologies if I don't have
the attributions correct.)

In article <C09IM0.DLK@news.iastate.edu> twfh5@isuvax.iastate.edu quotes
  eric@tvnews.tv.tek.com (Eric F. Dorondo) in comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
  from Sun, 27 Dec 1992 07:44:37 GMT.
>As a side note, it seems that alot of Packard Bell owners that bought SBPros
>have had a high incedents of hardware incompatabilities, from odd occurances
>to not getting them to work at all.
...

I'm not sure to which, if any, Packard Bell models this might apply,
but there is a known incompatibility between Soundblaster cards and PCs
which use an 82C710 chip (from Chips & Technologies) to integrate
various functions (serial ports, parallel port, FD controller) on the
motherboard.  Creative Labs has a fix for this, available from their
BBS as PORTFIX1.EXE (possibly PORTFIXn by now).  This package contains
a program (not a TSR) which executes once from AUTOEXEC.BAT to
initialize the 82C710 correctly.  If your PC uses an 82C710 and you are
experiencing problems when a Soundblaster card is installed, it would
be worth a try.  Sorry, I don't have the BBS phone number.

>...        The only thing I didn't like
>was they put LPT1 at IRQ7 with no motherboard jumpers to set it to the normal
>place of IRQ5, so I had to put the SBPro at IRQ5, but all games play and
>windows 3.1 work fine, no problems.

Actually, IRQ7 is the normal assignment for LPT1 for both XTs and ATs.
IRQ5 is the default for LPT2.  As long as you are using the parallel
port only for printing, you should be able to use the same IRQ for any
other purpose, since printer drivers generally do not use the interrupt
feature of the port.  If you have a SCSI translator or other exotic
hardware hanging on the parallel port, however, you could well be in
trouble sharing the interrupt.

>                 I know the Force series has problems and
>I got a sneaken' hunch its in the DMA end of it, ...

If DMA is indeed the cause of the Soundblaster incompatibility, the
abovementioned PORTFIX1.EXE fix will NOT solve it.

Bob Nichols			(I don't own a Packard Bell machine, so
AT&T Bell Laboratories		 don't take anything I say as an
rnichols@ihlpm.ih.att.com	 evaluation of their products.)
From: copernicus@digund.uucp (Copernicus) 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Motherboards with OPT
Date: 31 Dec 92 16:56:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Digital Underground - PRIVATE
Reply-To: copernicus@digund.uucp (Copernicus) 

  >>TE>I am about to upgrade my 286 to a 386DX40 with OPTI chipset.
  >>  >I have seen a lot of postings about problems with OPTI chipsets
  >>  >with soundblaster, OS/2 etc.
  >>
  >>TE>OPTI chipsets are well know and widely used. I am not likely to use
  >>  >OS/2 or Soundbalster (at least in the near future). However, I really
  >>  >need to use windows and various dos application.
  >>
  >>TE>Is OPTI chipsets generally known as reliable and compatible with other
  >>  >hardware and most software? I'll apprectiate any opinions and experience
  >>  >on OPTI chipsets.
  >>
  >>If you could please e-mail me a summary
  >>
  >>Thanks
  >>
  >>Chris Nalley - copernicus@digund.uucp
  >>---
  >> . QMPro 1.0 03-1234 . Digital Underground - Linux Support Board - 812-941-
  >>

LH>I've been receiving responses from people in the OS/2 newsgroup about OPTi a
  >OS/2 compatibility.  No one is complaining about any problems, and they have
  >been running OS/2 for months.  I don't remember if anyone was using Unix or
  >not, but since I'm currently interested in OS/2, Unix compatibility isn't a
  >big factor right now.

LH>One person was also using a Soundblaster, and someone had also used ESDI, SC
  >and IDE drives (300+ MB) without any problems.

LH>Hope this helps.


LH>--
  >Les Hartzman                hartzman@kilroy.jpl.nasa.gov
  >Jet Propulsion Laboratory   M/S 238-528    (818) 354-5964
  >4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena,  CA.  91109

Thanks for the reply.  I plan on getting one in the next week.

Thanks again.

Chris Nalley
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From: aq061@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Scott Devine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: WANTED:  Cheap SCSI tape drive
Date: 21 Dec 1992 20:39:02 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu


Are there any SCSI tape drives under $300 for 120meg or more?  Please E-mail
me with the info.  Thanks and have a very Merry Christmas!
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From: waltc@cpqhou.compaq.com (Walt Croom)
Subject: Re: Compaq vs Dell vs Gateway
Organization: Compaq Computer Corp.
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 23:32:33 GMT

In article <1992Dec23.044531.31592@datamark.co.nz> david@datamark.co.nz (David Rowland) writes:

> I have heard that the Compaq support staff is almost non-existant,
> however, having never had the need to call them, I cant comment.

Compaq's customer support number at 1-800-345-1518 offers 7 day X 24 hour 
technical assistance and other services. Give them a call when you have a 
problem or need some information - they have a huge database they can access 
and engineering resources that can be tapped to answer almost any question. 

Note that users outside North America should contact their local subsidiary 
for support - these offices have access to the same resources.

Walt Croom
Unix Systems
Compaq Computer Corp.
From: st1q9@jane.uh.edu (Devine, Della M)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: quantum HD on IBM 286?
Date: 29 Dec 1992 11:19 CST
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: jane.uh.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

Hi all!

   I'm having a small problem.  I pulled a 40meg HD from an old
(7.5 years old) Digital PDP-11 and am trying to get it to work
on a friend's 286 pc/xt.  He has a 10meg HD already and it is made by
IBM.  This drive is made by Quantum and all of the connections are EXACTLY
the same as the IBM one. It looks exactly the same, the front panel is the
same, the power connection, 34 pin plug, 20 pin plug etc is all EXACTLY
the same.  The problem is, when i plug it up to the HD controller card
the FDISK program on msdos 3.1 does not recognize any fixed disks.
Can anyone suggest a solution?  Would i have to get the manual for this
drive or something to get it to work?  Do they put different controller
boards on the hard drive to work with specific computers?

HELP!!!!!

william c devine ii
reply to: devine@pvhep.pvamu.edu
From: carl@Cayman.COM (Carl Heinzl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Two SCSI controllers?
Date: 22 Dec 92 21:10:10 GMT
Organization: Cayman Systems Inc., Cambridge, MA
In-reply-to: garber@aru.dom.uab.edu's message of 20 Dec 92 17:37:09 GMT
bcc: carl


>I have a Seagate SCSI drive with an ST02 hard/floppy controller.  I
>want to buy a CD-ROM drive which also has a SCSI controller.  Can two
>SCSI controllers work in one system?  Will the Seagate drive run off
>of the CD- ROM controller (or vice versa)?  I know SCSI devices can be
>daisy chained, but does this require two SCSI connectors on each
>device?  The Seagate drive has only one.  Thanks in advance for any
>advice.

Seagate screwed up big time with their ST-01/02 and disks.  They are
not a true SCSI implementation.  The ST-01/02 controller may work with
non-Seagate SCSI disks but in general it will not and it is not a
supported configuration (this came directly from a Seagate tech
support rep).  I was also a little astounded to find out that some of
the Seagate SCSI disks will not work with standard SCSI controllers!!!

My advise would be to dump the Seagate drive/controller and get a real
SCSI controller (like you plan on doing ) and a real SCSI disk...

-Carl-
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From: dcole@ua.d.umn.edu (david cole)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Gateway CD-ROM deal
Date: 28 Dec 1992 21:13:43 -0600
Organization: University of Minnesota, Duluth
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: ua.d.umn.edu

In article <1992Dec25.022930.19589@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> quan@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Tony Quan) writes:
>
>Does anyone know which Sony CD-ROM drive Gateway 2000 sells?  Is
>the drive external or internal and which model is it?
>
>--Tony
>quan@cs.stanford.edu

The Sony 31a, an internal drive.  I have read that the controller card is not
from Sony.  It uses a proprietary Sony interface.
The drive is reviewed in the late December PC Mag.  It looked fine, but PC
Mag fussed about its access time.  It seems to me they are overemphasizing
that number.  
This drive is good value, IMHO.  I ended up getting a NEC 25, a comparably
priced external SCSI drive available in $400 multimedia kits from NEC and
MediaVision (that's 2 different kits).  I figured I wanted the cdroms in the
Mediavision kit anyway, and strongly preferred an external drive.  The NEC
seems fast enough, and works with the video in Sherlock Holmes II (unlike the
allegedly faster NEC 37 drive).
BTW, the Sony is also available in an attractive multimedia kit from Sun Moon
Star.  It includes a SoundBlaster Pro clone card and 5 cd-roms.  Price is
$379 from Sam's Club.  

Cheers, 
Dave
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: Now they say the ATI Graphics Ultra/Pro will not do 50 MHz ..?
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:30:43 GMT

In article <1992Dec10.182135.16322@julian.uwo.ca> wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith) writes:
>In article <lestrade.724007362@Ra.MsState.Edu> lestrade@Ra.MsState.Edu (John Patrick Lestrade) writes:
>>Now they say that the ATI will not run at 50 MHz and
>>switch?  I heard good things about the ATI and was excited about getting
>>it.  Has anyone heard of the ET4000?

>Has anyone heard of the ET4000?  That's like asking Has anyone heard of
>Seagate.  The ET4000 chip (or chip-set) is in many S-VGA cards.  Although
>I can't name any name-brand cards that use the ET4000 (except my Sigma
>Legend), it seems that the low-end S-VGA card market is split between the
>ET4000 and the Trident 8900.  These S-VGA cards can be had for $45 to $65
>with 1 meg ram and 65 MHZ dot-clocks and will drive 1024X768 at 60Hz, which
>is 49 kHz scan rates, and they probably also do 55 kHz as well.  My Sigma
>Legend works fine with a 12.5 Mhz bus speed, and gives 1.24 million win-marks.

ET4000 non-generics? Well, the famous Diamond Speedstar in its various
permutations (but not the 24X) and the Orchid Prodesigner II use it.

It is the queen of the unaccelerated chipsets. On a local bus it sup-
posedly rivals the S3 chipset, since accelerators don't see as dramatic 
an increase in speed that the non-accelerated chipsets see when used on 
local bus. 

Trident 8900C? Its garbage. If a friend of yours is buying a clone, tell
them to AVOID IT LIKE THE PLAGUE, since a Tseng-based card costs the same. 
(I find it funny that OS/2 advocates tell people to buy Trident because 
they have great OS/2 support. Thats like telling people to buy Yugos be-
cause they take Bosch spark plugs).







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From: hulsej@sun.lclark.edu (Jose Hulse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: no game port on Gateway 2k systems?
Date: 29 Dec 92 08:44:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: lclark.1992Dec29.084404.12805
Distribution: usa
Organization: Lewis & Clark College, Portland OR


Hi, all!

Just want to thank everyone again that has helped me out with recommenda-
tions on buying a new system.  Response has been great!

Another question, though.  I notice that ads for most systems 
say they have 2 serial ports, two parallel ports and one game port, right?

Then why do Gateway system ads say that that they only have 1 parallel and
2 serial ports?  Are Gateway systems "port poor" or something?  What's
the story? (Serial ports are for printers and external modems, right?  Game
ports are for joysticks, etc, and what are parallel ports for??)

Thanks in advance!
-Jose'
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From: hih@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Howard I Heisler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: NEC vs. MAG
Date: 30 Dec 92 16:33:34 GMT
Reply-To: hih@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Howard I Heisler)
Organization: Columbia University


   I have narrowed my search for a multisync monitor down to two choices,
the NEC 3fgx and the MAG.  I have read a lot of good things about both
monitors and they seem to be in the same price range.
   Would anyone care to recommend one over the other?  I am leaning towards
the NEC since I currently own a NEC 3d monitor and have had no problems 
with it.
From: jay@gdx.UUCP (Jay Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: DMA on PC motherboards
Date: 20 Dec 92 04:17:56 GMT
Organization: GDX-BBS,Central Pa Unix BBS/anon uucp (717)737-3249 PEP+/2400/1200 24hrs
In-reply-to: edhall@rand.org's message of 13 Dec 92 20:33:05 GMT


I'm having trouble getting a BusTek BT542B (1542 clone) working
with my Pioneer Vantage 486WB/33 motherboard -- I suspect a DMA problem.

The motherboard has AMI Bios, and the OPTI Writeback Cache Chipset.
256K Cache, and 16meg RAM.

I'm probably going to have to buy another motherboard.

What 486 motherboards are known to have DMA that works with
bus-mastering SCSI cards.


Please send me EMAIL, and I will summarize.

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From: orguess@wam.umd.edu (Bun Tse)
Subject: ATI ULTRA PRO display drivers
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
   I recently bought a Gateway DX-66 VLB system. But I have problem with the
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:19:12 GMT


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From: dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Philip Perucci)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Tariffs on memories?
Date: 1 Jan 93 22:59:34 GMT
Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command

In article <1993Jan1.151908.3773@news.nd.edu> fdeck@vyasa.helios.nd.edu (francis deck) writes:
>Tariffs on memory chips?  What gives?  Is the semiconductor
>industry going to become a socialized industry like agriculture
>in the US?  

Flame on...

No.  Protectionist wars heating up.  Cold-war is over, Economic-war is
taking its place.  Unfortunately, Government gives in to petty special
interest groups, rather than completely re-thinking the commercial/Government
relationship, so-far as technology is concerned.  I expect big changes
under Clinton/Gore, but god-only-knows what direction things will go. 

...flame off

Anyway, this is a group about PC (intel) hardware.  Anyone know when
4Mb x 9 SIMMS should be under $100.  Anyone care to guess?

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From: martinea@fox.nstn.ns.ca (Michael Martineau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Second IDE Drive
Date: 2 Jan 93 22:51:24 GMT
Organization: NSTN Network Operations Centre, Nova Scotia, Canada

I have a 386/SX with a 40Meg Conner hard drive.  I recently picked
up a Micropolis IDE hard drive.  I wish to run both hard drives.  I
can run either one stand alone but cannot get them to work together.
Are there special jumper settings required on the hard drives.

You can reply to me at martinea@hawk.nstn.ns.ca

Thanks,
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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: The Death of x86 Arch. ?
Organization: Indiana University
X-Kibo: Gotcha
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 05:48:27 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.195557.1989@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:

>Only if you think people are going to dump UNIX and flock to NT.  They
>aren't.  

Why not?  9-)  

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From: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg)
Subject: Re: the HP Deskjet - - info wanted
Organization: The College On The Other Side Of Route One
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 15:44:58 GMT

In article <1992Dec25.170353.1387@nuscc.nus.sg> law30056@nusunix1.nus.sg (TAN KEN HWEE) writes:
=Note that the DJ is a pretty good workhorse but (i) it's a fair bit
=slower than even an entry-level laser and (ii) it's very paper sensitive
=in that if u use the wrong paper, the baby's going to smudge quite
=badly, (iii) it's a lot less water-smudgeable than the Canon BJs.

Is there a recommended paper type or types??
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From: avg@litwin.com (Anil Gokhale)
Subject: Re: EXABYTE 8002 PC DRIVER WANTED
Keywords: exabyte
Organization: Litwin Process Automation
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:36:56 GMT

mpj@hemlock.cray.com (M. P. Johnson) writes:


>I have a 486DX-33 PC and access to an Exabyte 8002 tape drive
>with SCSI interface.

I presume runnning DOS?

>I would be very interested in ...... driver program for such a device.

Only thing I found to work is a port of the gnu tar, called 'gtar' on
wuarchive.wustl.edu   The file is called (I think) gtak100.zip
It works with the ASPI drivers that come with the Adaptec SCSI host
adapters.  

The program has some speed problems due to the block size assumptions.
I would certainly like an improved version or another utility.
But gtar is the only thing I know that works. 

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From: datta@cs.uwp.edu (David Datta)
Subject: Video Blaster
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Parkside
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 04:16:28 GMT

If anyone is thinking of buying one and would like to see some captured
images from it, please e-mail me and I will be happy to put some up for
FTP. I will need to know what type of file you want to see. (GIF, JPG,
TIFF, Etc..)
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From: gaw2@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gang Wu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Recommendation on SCSI controller card under $100 needed!
Date: 1 Jan 93 20:40:06 GMT
Organization: Columbia University


I am looking for a SCSI controller card with floppy support under $100.
It will be used in a 486 ISA system under OS/2. If you have any info on
where to obtain one and how much does it cost, please let me know.
Thanks,

Gang
gaw2@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu
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