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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 12:36:37 -0400 
From: Kwan-Ju Chen <kc2x+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: quantum lps-120A pro cmos setting


someone please tell me the cmos setting for quantum lps-120a pro.

Thanks
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From: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg)
Subject: Re: Did Gateway File For Chapter 11?
Organization: The College On The Other Side Of Route One
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 19:45:04 GMT

In article <1992Oct13.011349.15824@mccc.edu> pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) writes:
=...because The Wall Street Journal reported that Gateway had filed
=for Chapter 11 protection.

Well, color my face red. I did the research I should have done in the
first place and found that the article in question referred to
Northgate, not Gateway.

Sorry.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: rdg@world.std.com (Robin Goldstein)
Subject: Re: TWINCOM Vs. ViVa Fax/Modems
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 14:24:08 GMT

Juan A. Varela F. <U35334@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:

>I am about to buy a 14,400 bps FAX/MODEM.  I am considering either the
>TWINCOM or the ViVa.

>Does anybody has experience with either one?  Any references will be
>greatly appreciated.

>*  Juan A. Varela F.                                U35334@UICVM.UIC.EDU      *
>*  University of Illinois at Chicago                72070.3046@COMPUSERVE.COM *
>*                                                  TELEPHONE (708)771-9015    *
>*  Te quiero flor de los mares,                          FAX (708)771-9049    *
>*  verte libre y soberana!                                                    *

I recently purchased a Twincom 14.4DF INTERNAL and I love it!  Haven't had
any trouble connecting to anything, yet, and get zmodem downloads of
zip files of about 1650cps and text files of over 2000cps.  The fax part
seems to work properly, too, but I think the QLINK software it came with
is not as *smooth* as I would like, although it, too, works.





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From: rlee@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Ralph Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: WHAT GAMEPORT PIN HAS +5V FOR DAC REQUIREMENTS????
Date: 9 Oct 1992 16:58:00 GMT
Organization: The University of Westrn Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: tartarus.uwa.edu.au

Thanks..
rlee@tartarus.uwa.edu.au
From: z_hustonfn@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Need driver for - Prism VGART 1024 card
Date: 13 Oct 92 01:43:53 CST
Organization: Stephen F. Austin State University

	I have SuperVga card called Full House VGART 1024 and it's manufatured
by Prisma.  I have been trying to look for newer versions of drivers fro the
card, esp. Windows 3.1.  I have the drivers for Windows 3.0, but 3.1 needs the
"oemsetup.inf" which the old version doesn't have, so... what I liked to know
is if there is anyone know where i might be able to find it (them).  You might
be asking yourself "Why doesn't this guy look in the manual?"  Well, I did,
BUT! there's no address!!!  So, maybe YOU know where I might be able to get
hold of Prisma.

	Anyways, thanx for your help

		Fred Huston Jr.
		email:  Z_HUSTONFN@CCSVAX.SFASU.EDU
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From: russest@ampex.com (Steve Russell)
Subject: Re: IDE drives and old BIOS
Organization: Ampex Corporation, Redwood City CA
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 16:32:07 GMT

In article <15660019@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> crane@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Randy Crane) writes:
>The MFM disc in my old 286 is on its deathbed and I wish to upgrade to 
>an IDE drive.  I have read that old BIOSes don't support the new IDE drives.  
>My computer is a pre-1989 and I suspect that my BIOS would fall into 
>this category.
>
>What is necessary for the BIOS to support an IDE drive?  Is it just a matter
>of having a match in the disk parameter table or are there actual routines
>in the ROM for these drives?
>
>It seems like I could ask the Manufacturer what is the ideal parameters for the
>drive I wish to use and then program my own ROM.  If there are routines that
>must be added, that is a different story.
>
>What do I need to do?
>
>Thanks 
>Randy
>

Good news, IDE fans!!!

NCL makes a translating disk controller, model 538B, that avoids
that nasty and sometimes expensive bios upgrade.

I was faced with upgrading the bios on two Mylex/AMI 386-16
motherboards for a total of 85.00/each when my vendor suggested
the NCL controller (55.00).

PLUG AND GO!!! (well, set drive type to 1).

SYSID (like them old utilities!) reported the same
hd-cyl-sect for a maxtor 7213 that I'd have used with
user configurable drive settings in bios.

-steve
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From: ncschu01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu
Subject: Re: Gateway and Chapter 11
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 13:32:58 GMT
Organization: University of Louisville


As inquiries continue to persist regarding Gateway's financial status, I would
like to share with you some information that was forwarded to me by Gateway:

SECOND QUARTER EARNINGS UP

Gateway 2000 Bucks the PC industry trend:
Second-quarter revenues up, earnings up

NORTH SIOUX CITY, S.D., August 12, 1992 -- while may manufacturers are posting
second quarter losses, Gateway 2000 revenues continue to climb.  For the second
quarter ended June 30, the compnay shipped nearly 100,000 systems for $248.6
million in revenue.  This represents a five percent increase from $236 million
registered in the first quarter of 1992, and a 97 percent increase from the
$126.6 million registered in the same quarter last year.  In addition, pretax
earnings for the privately held company were also up more than 97 percent from
the second quarter a year ago.
	"We are very please with our second-quarter figure," said Gateway 2000
President Ted Waitt.  "In addition, orders exceeded reveue in the second
quarter, so we feel confident that third quarter will be even stronger."
	Each quarter the company's revenues have exceeded the previous quarter. 
Waitt attributed this to the way they do business: "We have been able to
sustain our continued growth based on our original business model, and we see
no reason to change it at this point.  We are still providing customers with
high quality, fully configured systems at outstanding prices, along with
excellent support.  "In fact, later this year we will continue to demonstrate
how our low cost of doing business, combined with our presence in the industry
allows us to offer high performance products that define new price/performance
standards," he continued.

Strong Financial Position
	In addition to posting increased revenue figures, Gateway also 
continues to grow in financial strength contrary to the monetary problems
facing much of the PC industry.  The company's pretax earnings percentage for
the first half of 1992 was at approximately 10 percent.  This exceeds the
percentage for the first half of last year, and for all of 1991.  The company's
current ratio is about two to one.  Stockholder's equity exceeds 50 per cent of
total assets, and long term liabilities are currently only 2.3% of total
assets.

	"We have a great balance sheet, not only for the computer industry, but
as far as any business is concerned," said Gateway 2000 Executive Vice
President Rick Snyder.  Gateway's financial institutions recently doubled its
line of credit to the mid-eight figure range.  The company has no balance due
on its credit line and has not drawn on it since the first half of 1991.

Tremendous Growth
	Each year, Gateway 2000 sales have grown dramatically.  The company
sold $1.5 million in 1987, $11.8 million in 1988, $70.6 million in 1989, $275.5
million in 1990, and finally $626.8 million in 1991.  At the current run-rate,
1992 revenue is expected to exceed $1 billion.

*****************

Well, I hope this puts the rumors for rest.  Hope this helps.

- Norm (Bad Boy from Brooklyn)
From: ccasted@prism.gatech.EDU (Edward Deering Boykin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: partitioning
Date: 13 Oct 92 03:12:33 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

I want to partition a 340 meg ide drive. I want it to have a ms-dos partition and a partition for the os called linux. Do I have to backup everything partition then reinstall all of my stuff or can I just partition around it or what casn I do?


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From: faraghec@cognos.com (Chad Faragher)
Subject: Re: Monitor Mystique: Trinitrons Not Good
Organization: Cognos Incorporated, Ottawa CANADA
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 17:33:49 GMT

In article <1992Oct6.213951.1@uwovax.uwo.ca> singer@uwovax.uwo.ca writes:
>I have recently looked at a 14-inch Sony monitor, a Nec 4fG, Compac and
>so-called Trinitron Viewsonics, and haven't seen anything among the crop that
>was worth considering at their higher price. On the other hand, I have seen a
>less expensive Samsung 4C (flat screen) that was slightly less and much much
>crisper; and an Everdata I am told was made by Darius(?) which despite a price
>half as much as the others, was a better monitor. Am I missing something in the
>high priced Trinitrons and Necs? Most color monitors are pretty bad stuff, and
>seem to be the second major cause for going blind. Has anybody discovered any
>moderately priced monitor that approaches the clarity of monochrome?-- 

Aren't ~ 90% of all picture tubes made under the name SONY TRINITRON?
Just about every CRT device I ever cracked open had SONY written on it.
Just like all the fridges used to be made by.. (Who?  American something..)
As far as I know, the only reason A Trinitron would be worse than other
brands is because of their electronics.  (I'm not saying that they actually
are any better or worse, I'm just wondering about the origin of the
actual hardware.)
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From: ghenniga@NMSU.Edu
Subject: CD-ROM info wanted!
Reply-To: ghenniga@NMSU.Edu
Organization: New Mexico State University - Electromagnetics Group
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 18:57:15 GMT


	I'd like to purchase a CD-ROM drive to use under OS/2. Right now
OS/2 only directly supports a few select drives so I'd like to get one of
these (list follows). The problem is price! Most of these drives are on
the higher end of things and I can't seem to find a reasonable price on
any of them, thus my post. 
	Are there any manufacturers that sell refurbished or used CD-ROM
drives, especially one of those on the list? My other requirement is that I
DO NOT want the interface card, a sound card or any other "extras" with it,
I just want a bare-bones, internal SCSI drive that works with my Adaptec
1542B. I'd also like it to have a headphone jack and volume control so that
it can be used to play audio CD's.
 	Of course a reasonable, e.g., $250, new price would be nice!

CD-ROM drives supported directly by OS/2 2.0:

	Toshiba models 3301T, TXM3301, TXM3301B
	Sony model CDU541
	NEC model CDR84

Any info or pointers welcome!
Gary Hennigan
---------
PhD Student, Computational Electromagnetics
New Mexico State University
email: ghenniga@NMSU.Edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ajb8886@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: Re: Odd Monitor Discoloration Problem
Reply-To: ajb8886@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 21:13:52 GMT

In article <1992Oct5.140429.25931@csx.cciw.ca>, u009@csx.cciw.ca (G. Stewart Beal) writes:
>In article <1992Oct02.175124.180986@zeus.calpoly.edu> rrauenza@zeus.calpoly.edu (Who, Me??) writes:
>>
>>	I just bought a new system which includes a VGA monitor.  As I
>>was checking things out on it, I noticed that if I had a red
>>background, that the lower corner of the monitor was a little lighter
>>than the rest of the red.  I also noticed that reorienting the monitor
>>also had an effect and would cause other areas of the screen to have
>>different shades (always near the edge).  It doesn't seem that the
>>
>Sounds like a purity adjustment problem. The little tabs on the neck of
>the tube behind the yoke adjust this (and other things). It's a quick 
>job to do the adjustment if the tech has any TV background. They should
>be able to do it, send it out, but in any case make you happy.
> 
>Regards, Stu Beal, VE3MWM, U009@CS.CCIW.CA,
>National Water Research Institute, Burlington, Ontario, Canada.
> 
>"Desiree had it all: family, money, power,
> lovers, a golden retriever, and herpes." - David L. Baker
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  Did the dog have it too? :>



If moving the monitor makes the location of the discoloration change, then
there's some external EM field acting on your monitor.  If there's
no evidence of "jittering" then it probably isn't from a transformer, but
rather a magnet.

Move anything that might contain a magnet (especially unshielded speakers, and
old fashioned telephones (which can erase diskettes when they ring :) away
from the monitor.  Then try moving the monitor around to see if the >changes<
in discoloration persist.  If they don't, and the discoloration is still there,
try turning the monitor on and off many times (some monitors have a built in
weak degaussing coil that's activated by the power-on-off cycle).
If the monitor exhibited "jitter" look out for nearby
florescent lights.  

As for a static (non moving, non changing) discoloration in a lower corner,
that's usually typical for most low-end monitors and is caused by the
field from the high voltage transformer.  Most monitors will display this
same noticable discoloration on a bright white backround.

Heavily shielded (read: expensive) monitors generally don't demonstrate this 
sort of thing, although I've seen it on way too many NEC 4FG's along with
convergence problems at the very edges of the image.

Alex

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From: kris@microware.com (Kris Hoffmeyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: RLL/MFM Controller info requested
Date: 5 Oct 92 17:29:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: microwar.1992Oct5.172945.11454
Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Iowa

Hi,

I have a couple of controllers I would like to ask for help
on configuring.  Here are some numbers I found on the cards.

RLL:
WD1006V-SR1  F005  X10
61-600100-05 23894

MFM:
Adaptec  ACB-2310/12
	 418906-03
	 REV C
	 Entr mkt 2-5-91

Any help/info would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Kris.
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From: "steven baldassarra" <steven.baldassarra@canrem.com>
Subject: sis chipset eisa moth
Reply-To: "steven baldassarra" <steven.baldassarra@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 7 Oct 92 12:46:03 EST

Subject: SIS Chipset EISA motherboard any good?

>Does anybody has experience with SIS Chipset EISA bus motherboard?
>The motherboard I am thinking about has 6 EISA bus expansion slots, and
>2 ISA bus expansion slots (16-bits). It uses the SIS Chipset as opposed
>to the INTEL Chipset and the manual claims to have EISA spec. 3.1 compliance.
>It can use 25/33/50 MHz 486 cpu (jumper configuered).  Also able to use
>1,4, or 16MB SIMMs, giving a max. of 128MB RAM on board!

AU>Along the same lines, has anyone any experience with the new OPTI chip
AU>set for EISA?  I thought it was suppose to be out at the end of this year,
AU>but the other day I went into a store and saw a EISA motherboard with
AU>4 OPTI chips on it, 2 of which I assume are the bus mastering chips.
AU>No Intel chips were to be seen (except the CPU, of course).
AU>Are they available already?

I don't know about OPTi's EISA chipset. But I'm using a i486DX-50 EISA
motherboard with SiS/EISA 486 Chipset for two months without any problem.

According to the motherboard manual. The SiS/EISA 486 Chipset made up
of four surface mounted components:

The 85C420 EISA Bus Controller controls EISA bus cycles and together
with the 85C411 supports 8, 16, and 32bit masters and slaves.

The 85C411 is a System, Cache and Memory controller that is fully
compatible with the EISA 3.1 specification. It supports 486DX, DX2,
SX, and 487SX microprocessors operating at speeds from 16 to 66Mhz
and supports both 486 and EISA burst modes to local memory. The 84C411
provides CPU, Cache, and DRAM interfaces and supports bank interleaved
Fast Page Mode DRAM access. It also contains the interface for the
Weitek 4167 coprocessor.

The 85C431 Data Buffer controls data routing and swapping and has parity
generation and detection logic.

The 85C406 Highly Integrated System Peripheral, is a controller which
handles 7 DMA channels and arranges bus arbitration between DMA and
Refresh devices, EISA masters and the CPU. This chip is also a
programmable 16-level programmable interrupt controller that provides
channel-by-channel level or edge triggered interrupt capability. Its 5
counter/timers provide system timer interrupts DRAM refresh requests and
other functions needed by system timing operations.

Steven
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From: kevin@kosman.uucp (Kevin O'Gorman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: UARTs: can I replace UMC82450 with NS16550
Date: 7 Oct 92 19:34:13 GMT
Organization: Vital Software Services, Oxnard, CA

I have a couple of NS16550 UARTs with FIFO that I want to use to improve
communication.  I know they're a drop-in replacement for the NS16450.

However, my serial card seems to be using an UMC82450, and I wonder if
that's the same thing or not.  Anybody know, or have a reference book
that will tell?
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voice: 805-984-8042 Vital Computer Systems, 5115 Beachcomber, Oxnard, CA  93035
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From: Andrew.Jackson@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Andrew Jackson)
Subject: AT bus adapter...
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
 
                                        Andrew Jackson
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Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 06:09:44 GMT

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From: ratcliff@ucsd.edu (John Ratcliff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: parallel printer port wierdness
Date: 15 Oct 92 15:42:28 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Organization: ucsd

I have been trying to use the parallel printer port to do some
simple parallel I/O to a peripheral but struck a strange problem
in trying to read in parallel data.
I have been using basica to do some simple in and out instructions
on ports 378H for output and 379H for input.
The ouput works fine but the input data on 379H behaves in a strange
way. If I read the input data once and the basic program ends the input
data is read in with no problems, but if I put the basic program in
a loop reading input data from port 379H (from  25D pins 10, 11,
12, 13 and 15) the data once set to a logic 1 can never be set back
logic zero until the basic program ends. That is you can only read
a logic zero the first time then once it goes to a logic one
the data seems to latchup high??

Is there some way of reseting or unlatching this data input port.
I do not have schematics of parallel input ports on ATs and cannot
see what would cause this by an old PC schematic.

Thanks for any help.

John Ratcliff, UCSD
ratcliff@ucsd.edu
From: wats@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Bruce Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Noisy fan. What do I need to do?
Date: 9 Oct 92 00:28:28 GMT
Organization: Alpha Science Computer Network, Denver, Co.

In article <28469@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM+ wats@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Bruce Watson) writes:
+This started just today. Is something stuck in it? Is it a build
+up of dust and grime? Is the bearing going out? Is it the entire
+power supply which will have to replaced? How much is this going 
+to cost me?
+
I blasted as much of the gunk as I could with compressed air and shot
it full of WD-40, turned the machine off for a few hours and now
the sound is at a normal level. Is my problem solved?

-- 
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From: kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann)
Subject: P24T
Organization: Zeos International, Ltd
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1992 13:48:40 GMT

If there are questions you have about our support of the P24T on our new
motherboard, Please send mail to me directly. I will summarize the questions
and forward them to our engineering department.

The questions will be taken from my mail until the 15th of October. Once
the questions have been answered, I will create an FAQ and drop it in as
part of the ZEOS distribution of FAQ's to the 'net.

Send mail with the questions to kgermann@zeos.com or postmaster@zeos.com.
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