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From: richk@grebyn.com (Richard Krehbiel)
Subject: What's the real difference between QIC-40 and QIC-80?
Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 13:45:12 GMT

What feature is it that makes the DC2120 tape store 120M on a Jumbo
250 and only 60M on a Jumbo 120?  Does QIC-80 have twice as many
tracks?  Is the linear density doubled?  Both run from the same floppy
controller, so I doubt encoding differences.

(I just helped my Dad install a Jumbo 120 drive.  On the drive's
circuit board were two boxes labelled "120" and "250", and an "X" was
in the "120" box; clearly they share the logic board, perhaps with
some component differences.  So I start speculating: what's the real
difference here that makes the 250 cost more?  Perhaps the 250 has a
different cam on the head positioner stepper and a different ROM that
makes twice as many tracks available...)
-- 
Richard Krehbiel                                 richk@grebyn.com
OS/2 2.0 will do for me until AmigaDOS for the 386 comes along...
From: dcole@ua.d.umn.edu (david cole)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Pro Audio Spectrum 16/ Thoughts?
Date: 5 Jan 1993 18:30:06 -0600
Organization: University of Minnesota, Duluth
NNTP-Posting-Host: ua.d.umn.edu

In article <wfFC_ma00XQU4gkU94@andrew.cmu.edu> wipeout+@CMU.EDU (Sean Michael Goller) writes:
>I'm considering purchasing a Pro Audio Spectrum 16 sound card and I've
>got a couple of questions.
>
>
>It's got a SCSI interface on it for connecting a CD-ROM drive. Is this
>connection external, internal or does it have both? Can other SCSI
>devices be connected to this as well? Could someone who has had
>experience with this comment on it?
>
>Also, are there any other TRUE 16-bit sound cards out there ith CD-ROM?
>I've seen the Soundblaster pro with its "proprietary" interface (really
>great selling point. NOT) but as far as I can tell it's just two
>Soundblasters stuck together, and still 8-bit.
>
>Any information would be much appreciated. 
>
>Thanks,
>    Sean.
>wipeout+@cmu.edu



You should visit the pc.soundcard newsgroup.

The SB16 is just released.  Apparently it still has the proprietary cd-rom
port. Since the Panasonic cd-roms seem fine, it is a pretty good deal in the
bundles.

The Gravis Ultrasound is scheduled to have 16-bit sampling and SCSI support,
both as future add-ons.

I believe the DAK/BSR card has similar options.

As far as I know, the PAS16 is about the only 16bit record-play card that has
a true SCSI port.  I am told by others that they connect both cdrom and SCSI
harddrives to the port.  But to do that you much buy a driver.

And you must also buy the SCSI kit from Mediavision.  The connector on the
card is apparently not ready to connect to anything.  So they sell you
special cables and a software driver.  $40 for an internal drive and $80 for
external (comes with a bracket to hold the external socket, along with the
audio connectors -- but uses up an additional card slot that must be next to
the PAS card).  Advice: if you are interested in the PAS card, look into the
bundles including the cdrom drive.

Bit disadvantage of the PAS card is that it has that crummy Yamaha FM synth
chip.  I have the PAS+ and a Roland LAPC-1.  I have the mixer volume (I like
the mixer on the PAS) turned all the way down on the PAS (Yamaha) synth.
The Roland has much better sound.  As far as I know, the Yamaha chips provide
the worse sound of all soundcards, but are the most widely used.  They must
give them away.  If all you want are the 16 bit DAC/ADCs on the card, the PAS
is a good choice.  If you have any interest in music (or games), other cards
(especially Roland) are better.  Or you can get them both, since they coexist
well.

Cheers,

Dave
From: km3@doc.ic.ac.uk (Konstantinos Moutsopoulos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: L-ISA(?) - 486s motherboards
Date: 7 Jan 93 14:51:25 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London
NNTP-Posting-Host: dolphin.doc.ic.ac.uk

I came across an advert for cheap motherboards. The make appears
as L-ISA-486s (UNI). Has any of you seen or used anything like
that ? How much can I trust it ? Some features:
SiS ISA single chip
baby size board   
AMI 486 ISA BIOS
6 ISA slots, 1 Opti local bus slot

Thanks in advance.
-- 
Dinos N. Moutsopoulos, Applied Systems Section 
s-mail: Dpt of Computing,Imperial College, 180 Queen's Gate, London SW7 2BZ, UK
Tel. +44 71  5895111 ext. 7522 - fax:+44 71 581 8024  e-mail: km3@doc.ic.ac.uk
From: christos@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Hooking an apple printer to a PC????
Date: 12 Jan 93 07:09:51 CST
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

Hello there,

	I have the following questions:
1. What is the difference between the 486DX2 and the 486DX 50MHz?
   Doesn't the MHz speed tell you how many clock cycles the CPU
   can perform?
2. Usually, a PC (IBM compatible) requires that you have memory
   that can be 1M, 2M, 4M, 8M etc.....multiples of 2. Is that always
   the case for the PC's? Is that the case for the MACs also? Why is that
   the case?
3. Hooking an Apple printer to a PC would require I guess an adapter
   that would convert the Centronics Interface signals to the Apple
   Talk Interface signals? Is there such an adaptor and how is it 
   called, where can we find one, and approximate what is the price?
   Also, buying such a device what do we need to pay attention to?


Thanks,
Internet address:
christos@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
From: sasbge@ant.unx.sas.com (Gantt Edmiston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Gateway Simms - 9 bit or 36 bit?
Keywords: SIMMS
Date: 5 Jan 93 18:00:49 GMT
Reply-To: sasbge@ant.unx.sas.com
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
Originator: sasbge@ant.unx.sas.com


In article, nparshot@ap1seq.us.oracle.com (Naresh Parshotam) writes:
>I've been talking to some people about this and have received conflicting
>answers from even the Gateway folks.  I believe there enough Gateway users
>here in netland with this answer.  Can someone please tell me for certain
>which Simms are used in the new Gateways? 

I can't tell you from first-hand experience (or "for certain" as 
requested).  I *can* tell you from investigation that Gateway is
using (in their newest systems) the 36 bit simms.  Before I ordered
my ZEOS system in October, I was considering a Gateway and this is
what I was told when I called Gateway tech support.

I suggest that you call the Gateway order number and get the tech
support number.  From this, you will find several things.  First, the
*real* answer to your questions and Second, just how frustrating it
is to get through to the Gateway tech support personnel.  This is not
to say that it will be frustrating *every* time.  If you are considering
a purchase from Gateway (or any other vendor), it only takes some spare
time to get a "feel" for what you have in store after the sale.


>
>Also, is it wise to get them from a mail-order place and if so, does anyone
>know of any which price these competitively?

These Simms are new to the market and I have yet to find any *deals*.

You might also want to inquire with Gateway if their motherboards will
allow "double-sided" simms.  Some simms are populated with memory 
chips on both sides, to increase the density of the simm.  Usually
this will give you a 16MB simm.  I found out, much to my dismay, that
my ZEOS motherboard will not allow double-sided Simms.  The four
(and only four) memory slots are too close together and I will have
to wait until the market releases the upcoming "single-sided"
16MB simms in order to upgrade my system with more memory.


>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>-naresh-
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Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:34949 comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware:2318
From: jmh@sunpix.East.Sun.COM (Justin Heinecke - Sun NC Development Center)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: PS/1 Hard Drive Replacements
Date: 6 Jan 1993 18:36:01 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Research Triangle Park, NC
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: shimano.east.sun.com

I am trying to replace the 30M hard drive on a PS/1 with
something a little larger, but I don't like IBM prices.

Are there any other manufacturers who make drives for the
PS/1 machines?  It's an early 286 machine, the drive is
IDE of a sort, but it's a IBM proprietary connector/protocol.

I heard a rumor that Conner made drives for the PS/2; is
this true?  If so (or even if not) do they make drives for
the PS/1?

Thanks to all.
justin.heinecke@east.sun.com
From: zatar@dadstoy.gbdata.com (Terry Stockdale)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: What's the real difference between QIC-40 and QIC-80?
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 09:19:46 -0600
Organization: Lots of little files on drive D:

In <1993Jan7.025054.721@mlb.semi.harris.com> sonny@charybdis.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis) writes:
>>richk@grebyn.com (Richard Krehbiel) writes:
>>
>>>What feature is it that makes the DC2120 tape store 120M on a Jumbo
>>>250 and only 60M on a Jumbo 120?  Does QIC-80 have twice as many
>
>	Isn't the only difference between the Jumbo 250 and the
>Jumbo 120 that the 250 employs on-the-fly data compression algorithms
>(sorta like Stacker) to squeeze roughly twice as much data (on the average)
>onto the tape as the 120?
>
>	Aren't the on-tape capacities and recording hardware the same?
>Just that software (firmware?) has squeezed the redundancy from the
>data presented to the 250?
>

I'm sure they both do.  I have a Jumbo 120 drive.  It gets 60megs on a
DC2120 tape without compression and "up to 120megs" with the compression
included in the jumbo software.  The software for the 120 and 250 are 
the same.  However, I get effective compression on my game drive of
about 1.1:1, rather than 2:1, and about 1.4:1 on my other drive.  I've
never seen anything like a 2:1 average compression out of my drive.

>	Are OS/2 drivers yet available for the Jumbos?

Nope, and yes.  Colorado will sell you Sytos (sp?) software for $99 to
support OS/2 2.0.  You can find more info on comp.os.os2.misc, where
it's discussed rather often.  I do not run OS/2 2.0, YET, until I upgrade
to a larger hard drive (last weekend, I upgraded a 386sx-16 motherboard
to a 486DX-33).  The lack of Colorado support for OS/2 was also prominent
in my reluctance to convert.  I've become a win3.1 user, for lack of tape
support.
--

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you'll get run over if you don't move."  --Will Rogers.

terry@dadstoy.gbdata.com	Terry Stockdale		Houston, Texas
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: greg@lpi.liant.com (Greg Bean)
Subject: Kouwell 556B V1.0 Disk cntrl (IDE) settings
Reply-To: greg@lpi.liant.com	
Organization: Liant Software Corporation, Framingham MA	
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 19:37:28 GMT

Could someone help me with the jumpers on a Kouwell 556B IDE disk
controller. I don't have a manual.

I recently installed one on my PC. It works but the serial port
conflicts with my original serial/parallel/gameport card. I removed the
older card but would like to disable the serial & parallel ports on the
Kouwell so I can have my game port back.

A Kouwell BBS number would also help.

Thanks

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From: tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu (Tad Perry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: MD: Sony's new Mini Disk technology
Date: 12 Jan 93 03:04:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: gibdo.1993Jan12.025929.20038
Distribution: na
Organization: unaffiliated
NNTP-Posting-Host: gibdo.engr.washington.edu

In article <1993Jan12.010042.20828@wam.umd.edu> warren@wam.umd.edu (the stupid one) writes:
>thus quoth dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap):
> The next question is that of capacity.  If the MD player is at CD
> quality, it will record at about 44,000 16-bit samples per second.  I
> believe the time-limit of a MD is 74 minutes.  This yields 44,000 x 74
> x 60 = 195360000 or 186MW or 372MB.  This is unformatted, of course.
>
>*2 for stereo BUT
>they use a lossy compression method to reduce the data to 8 bits
>so this is correct
>
>but we already have rewritable magneto-optical media for PC's

True, but the benefits of mass production are going to aid price
decreases for the MD much more than they will ever be able to aid
magneto-optical media, just from the fact that it's mainly a digital
audio systems designed for home electronics.  If they start selling
all over the place, and it seems they might, you can kiss
magneto-optical goodbye.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: rjf@dptg.att.com (51351[efw]-Robert Feddeler(MT4799)T343)
Subject: Re: Why does my 486 require 2 wait states?
Organization: AT&T/NCR, Lincroft, NJ, USA
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 22:58:22 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.213815.28624@bmers95.bnr.ca> khor@bnr.ca writes:
> 
>Also I'm waiting for the day when they come out with 60ns DRAMs.  I can
>then reduce my 33MHz to 1 wait state and see it fly :).
>

4Mb of 60ns DRAM is abundantly available for about $150 in small quantities.
That's less than 10% more than 70ns parts.  My supplier tells me that
he often gets 60ns parts when he orders 70 because his supplier is out
of 70's.  Keep in mind that both parts are manufactured exactly the same.
The only difference is that the ones that don't test out at ~50ns get the
70ns label.

I have run 70ns parts in a 486/33 with 0 wait states.  They work just
fine, but for the tiny price differential, I'd specify 60s.



bob.				| Heap big trouble in the land of plenty.
Were these more than just my opinions, they would have cost a bit more.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: jre@zeos.com (Jim Erickson)
Subject: Re: Gateway Simms - 9 bit or 36 bit?
Organization: Zeos International, Ltd
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 15:19:27 GMT
Keywords: SIMMS

In article <8932@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com> hwrvo@kato.lahabra.chevron.com (W.R. Volz) writes:
[stuff deleted] >I just talked to my friendly gw salewoman 
>72 pin EISA memory. It costs a few $$$ more than standard nx[89] simms.
>The question I have is this: It only takes the 4 mb or 16 mb 72 pin modules,

Commonly refered to as nx36 (i.e. 4Mx36).  
                                     ^^ 
>======================
>Bill Volz
>Chevron Oil Field Research Co.
>Exploration Research/Geophysics Division.
>P.O. Box 446, La Habra, CA 90633-0446
>Phone: (310) 694-9340

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Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:35356 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:16516 comp.periphs.printers:3857
From: vcm@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (V. Chandramouli)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Star SG-10 Dot Matrix Printer : HELP.
Date: 9 Jan 93 19:56:45 GMT
Reply-To: vcm@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (V. Chandramouli)
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Distribution: na
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Originator: vcm@huey.cc.utexas.edu

Hello:   I recently bought a Star SG-10 Dot Matrix Printer from 
one of my friend and I am having problems.  I have connected it
to my IBM/286 machine (Hyundai PC compatible).

The test printing comes out fine when I hold the line-feed button
while switching the power supply on.  However, when I connect it 
to my computer, and try printing say "DIR > LPT2", only part
of the directory gets printed -- it skips characters inbetween
and some lines too.  For example, "echo 'abcdefghijklmn' > LPT2",
will print something like "abcdeikn" !   I think the problem is
in the setting of the DIP switches.  Since I dont have the manual,
I an unable to set the correct configuration.  Right now, I have
DIP switches set to:   (1) 1-8 = ON
                       (2) 1 = ON, 2 = OFF, 3 = OFF, 4 = ON.
Is this correct ?  

Can anyone send me more information on this printer ?  Any help
would be very much appreciated.  Is there anywhere I can purchase
a copy of this printer's manual ?

Thanks in advance for the help.

Chandramouli.           mouli@emx.cc.utexas.edu
 




Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: wilson@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Bob Wilson)
Subject: Re: What's the real difference between QIC-40 and QIC-80?
Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin Dept. of Mathematics
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 16:11:22 GMT

zatar@dadstoy.gbdata.com (Terry Stockdale) writes:

>In <1993Jan7.025054.721@mlb.semi.harris.com> sonny@charybdis.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis) writes:
>>>richk@grebyn.com (Richard Krehbiel) writes:
>>>
>>>>What feature is it that makes the DC2120 tape store 120M on a Jumbo
>>>>250 and only 60M on a Jumbo 120?  Does QIC-80 have twice as many
>>
>>	Isn't the only difference between the Jumbo 250 and the
>>Jumbo 120 that the 250 employs on-the-fly data compression algorithms
>>(sorta like Stacker) to squeeze roughly twice as much data (on the average)
>>onto the tape as the 120?
>>
>>	Aren't the on-tape capacities and recording hardware the same?
>>Just that software (firmware?) has squeezed the redundancy from the
>>data presented to the 250?
>>

>I'm sure they both do.  I have a Jumbo 120 drive.  It gets 60megs on a
>DC2120 tape without compression and "up to 120megs" with the compression
>included in the jumbo software.  The software for the 120 and 250 are 
>the same.  However, I get effective compression on my game drive of
>about 1.1:1, rather than 2:1, and about 1.4:1 on my other drive.  I've
>never seen anything like a 2:1 average compression out of my drive.

>>	Are OS/2 drivers yet available for the Jumbos?

>Nope, and yes.  Colorado will sell you Sytos (sp?) software for $99 to
>support OS/2 2.0.  You can find more info on comp.os.os2.misc, where
>it's discussed rather often.  I do not run OS/2 2.0, YET, until I upgrade
>to a larger hard drive (last weekend, I upgraded a 386sx-16 motherboard
>to a 486DX-33).  The lack of Colorado support for OS/2 was also prominent
>in my reluctance to convert.  I've become a win3.1 user, for lack of tape
>support.
>--

>-- 
>__
>"Even if you're on the right track, 
>you'll get run over if you don't move."  --Will Rogers.

>terry@dadstoy.gbdata.com	Terry Stockdale		Houston, Texas
2120 only identifies the physical tape. The two different drives
format it in different ways. The 120 formats it in accordance with the
QIC40 standard, the 250 as QIC80. QIC 80 has about 50% more tracks and
about a 50% higher bit density on the track: I don't have the exact
figures here, but the resulting product doubles the total bits you can
put on the tape.
The 250 can READ a QIC40 tape so it is supposed to be able to recover
from dumps done with a 120: I haven't tried that. It does not format
QIC40 and I does not claim to be able to write to QIC40 even if
previously formatted elsewhere.

Thus there is a 2 to 1 difference in the number of bits you can store
with the 250. The software, or the optional compressing hardware, does
compression in either case. I have put over 200 MB of "realworld" data
on a QIC80 formatted 2120 in a Jumbo 250, although the number of bits
it can store is only about 120MB.

Bob Wilson
wilson@math.wisc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: Local Bus?
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 02:12:23 GMT

In article <28906@oasys.dt.navy.mil> whitesto@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Jr., Robert Whitestone) writes:
>In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware, fbruno@ysw526 (F. Bruno) writes:
>>Hi!
>>I have just side-graded to a 486-50 FOREX motherboard w/ local bus. Side
>>grading meaning that I used to have a buggy Opti 486-50 MB. Now I am stuck.
>>I already have a Diamond Stealth VRAM and I don't know whether I should shell
>>out the extra $150. for the local bus video or not. Please help. Will the
>>local bus give me better performance than the Stealth? I am happy w/ the
>>stealth, but if the LB card would be significantly faster, then it may be
>>worth it.

Depends on what someone would pay you for the Stealth, I 
guess.. say $100 or so, since a Speedstar 24X is around
$155. So your cost is down to $50. Still, don't know if its 
faster.


>    I'm just curious, why else would you have side-graded to a
>    local bus, if not for a local bus video card?



He sticks his video card on ISA of course...



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: alton.none@mot.com (Ken Alton)
Subject: Wanted: Telephone Interface Board Sources
Organization: dq549
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 15:57:19 GMT

I am interested in obtaining names of companies which sell
multi-line telephone interface boards which allow line 
switching.  ISDN capability is a plus.
Please respond via email if possible.

Thanks,

Ken Alton
alton@ecs.comm.mot.com





Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: Conner 170 meg drives any good?
Organization: Indiana University
Distribution: comp
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:24:25 GMT

In article <1993Jan3.035203.24327@netcom.com> johnwu@netcom.com (John M. Wu) writes:
>In article <7227@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu> 6500boo@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (William Bushing) writes:

>-10 = garbage
>  0 = functional (loses files, crashed once  but works)
>+10 = great! 

>Owners of other Maxtors are welcome in this survey.  Just let me know what 
>model it is.  

I'd rate my 7120 as a +5. It works just fine but Checkit reports a 
sustained transfer rate of 350 kB s-1. It used to be up in the 800
range when new. Yes, I did defrag it. I do have it in two partitions 
though.




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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 09:50:10 MST
From: haymoree@newyork.et.byu.edu (Edward Haymore)
Subject: Re: 2 IDE drives
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
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Wolfgang Schwanke (wolfi@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de) wrote:
| jon@sed.stel.com (Jon Radel) writes:

| >In article <1993Jan7.160826.1605@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> cwatters@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Coyt D Watters) writes:
| >>Can I just hook up another IDE drive and change the CMOS, or do I have to 
| >>bother with the master/slave problems I've read about?

| I have connected 2 IDE drives just two weeks ago. You have to configure
| "master" and "slave" using jumper settings on the disks. I had a hard time

If you have a controller that controls 2 hard drives, you shouldn't have to
set them up as master/slave.  If your controller controls only one hard
drive, then you do have to hook the two drives up as master/slave.  In either
case, you'll have to add the second hard drive to the CMOS settings.

I would expect that hooking the drives up as master/slave would require
them to be a lot more compatible than connecting them to a 2HD controller.

--
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