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From: tsand@vipunen.hut.fi (Tapio Sand)
Subject: Re: Disconnect Phantom
Keywords: Knock it off!!
Reply-To: tsand@vipunen.hut.fi (Tapio Sand)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 18:45:21 GMT

In article <1992Sep6.035328.12148@coyote.datalog.com> jmh@coyote.datalog.com (John Hughes) writes:
>
>Sounds more like a software problem to me. As far as I know (which may or
>may not be very far - your milage may vary) the only string to which a
>Hayes compatible modem will respond is +++, which is typically followed
>by ATH or some such. I also seem to recall that there is some degree of
>delay between the "hey you!" string (+++) and the command string.

I have a Hayes compatible modem, and nothing special
happened while reading the letter above.
-- 
                                                           tsand@vipunen.hut.fi
TEX disconnects, dial again for another session.
D;+vC)?iH%"
NO CARRIER
From: jfreed@zonev.East.Sun.COM (JAMES FREED)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Sytos tape layout info....
Date: 10 Sep 1992 17:39:29 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Distribution: world
Reply-To: jfreed@zonev.East.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: zonev.east.sun.com

I did a dd of the file data and you get a large file which is seperated by some stuff
and the file name. For gif's I wrote some very ugly c code to recover the file.
My guess is, if this is just a single file you could do something similar. 



jim




Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: storm@uriel (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
Subject: Re: Why does my PC sometimes hang when the phone rings?
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 00:49:24 GMT

In article <1992Sep12.104745.13585@csx.cciw.ca> u009@csx.cciw.ca (G. Stewart Beal) writes:
>In article <18rt4rINN7s2@agate.berkeley.edu> stanton@haas.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton) writes:
>>Earlier today, I had been using MS-KERMIT to dial in to a computer.
>>I logged off, hung up, and exited. A little while later (while in the
>>middle of another program, unrelated to serial communications), the
>>phone rang and my PC completely froze, requiring a hard reboot.
>>
>Your communications program is leaving the interrupt vector set to it's
>own code and not restoring it when it exits. When the phone rings, the
>modem is probably sending "RING" along the data lines and/or raising
>the RING line - pin 22 - and possibly DTR -pin 20- to the computer.
>The machine sees the data, or the control line delta and generates an
>interrupt to alert the non-existant software. BINGO.
>A possible solution is to reboot your machine, or only shell out to DOS
>rather than exiting. Another possibility is to load a mouse driver
>after you are finished. Specify the same serial port you use for the
>modem. This may work if the driver will load without a physical mouse
>present
>Lastly, check to see if another program (like TELIX) might work as well
>as your current one. I haven't had any similar problems with TELIX so
>I assume it resets the interrupt correctly.

	I would personally NOT recommend using TELIX if this is happening.

	I discoverd last year with my internal modem, that if I left Telix
running in a DOS box under windows 3.x, the computer would reboot every time
somebody phoned and the modem sent a RING.

	I no longer have this problem with my external 14,4 SupraFax modem.

	Toodlepip!

	Marc 'em.

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  storm@cs.mcgill.ca           McGill University         C program run.  Run  
  Marc Wandschneider           Montreal, CANADA          Program run! PLEASE!
      "When 900 years old you reach, look as good you will not." - Yoda
				"Ow!" -J.F.K.~
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,misc.computers.forsale
From: adelle@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (adelle.s.Petrocco)
Subject: 3-1/2" and 5-1/4" floppies in XT?
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 03:54:34 GMT

I have a partially assembled XT compatible (a rip-off deal
purchased through an ad on the net.  It was supposed to be a
complete system, but it was a bunch of unlabeled, disassembled
parts with a dead hard drive).  

Anyway, we want to use both floppy drives in the system
(temporarily without a hard drive).  Is there a controller that
will allow me to do this?  Does anyone have a good, used one
that they want to sell cheap?

Adelle
adelle@cbnewsh.att.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson)
Subject: Re: Gateway CS1024NI = (!=) Mag Monitor
Organization: State University of New York -- Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 17:57:46 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.120407.11155@newshost.unh.edu> pss1@kepler.unh.edu (Paul S Secinaro) writes:
>In article <1992Sep9.010220.3250@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mrosen@nyx.cs.du.edu (Michael Rosen) writes:
>
>I think there are two different monitors at issue here.  One is the
>older CS1024I, which is interlaced at the 1024x768 resolution.  The
>other is the CS1024NI, which does non-interlaced 60Hz 1024x768.  We
>have both models in the lab.  As far as I can tell, the CS1024I looks
>exactly like pictures of Tatung monitors I've seen in magazines.  I'm
>not sure if Gateway sells this monitor anymore, though.
>

Most people will probably be glad to know that this is my last post in
this long, dragged out thread over Gateway's sources.  :-)

After reading the various posts and doing some looking around on my
own, it appears that Gateway 2000 does, indeed, use MAG monitors for
their current Crystal Scan line.  They have used others in the past,
such as the Tatung interlaced model and the Mag Computronic noninterlaced
model, and other monitors that people have told me about but I didn't
care to remember.  The confusion all comes from Gateway's policy of 
putting their name on the outside and not making any significant changes
to that name.  I have seen "Gateway Crystal Scan" and "Gateway Crystal
Scan NI" on different types of monitors, and not all monitors are created
equal.  Therefore, Gateway will have to live with the fact that good
or bad, people will talk about a particular monitor and those statements
will be applied to ALL Gateway monitors until they do something to
differentiate their monitors.  Something more than just changing the
tiny model number located on the back of the monitor, because not many
people feel like (or even think of) moving that bulky mass to determine
the model number.

Gateway further hurts itself by HIDING the manufacturer of the monitor.
Looking through my Gateway 2000 documentation, I don't see Mag Computronic
mentioned anywhere.  It just refers to the monitor as a Gateway Crystal
Scan (which, incidentally, is non-interlaced but doesn't carry the "NI"
monicker).

I know this does little to clear things up, but I'm sure it's better than
the "name game" that Gateway is playing.  Don't get me wrong, I like
Gateway 2000.  I'm just pointing out that the monitors change but the
names don't and that people should make sure what they are getting before
they order AND they should mention WHICH Gateway Crystal Scan they are
talking about when they need help with one or want to complain about it.

-- 
Jim H.
*
* James L. Henrickson
* ujlh@sunyit.edu        "Some day I might have a real .signature!"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mmaston@netcom.com (Michael Maston)
Subject: Re: SCSI Question
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 20:51:10 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <colin.715482248@marsh> colin@marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au (Colin Manning) writes:
>Hi,	
>	When someone purchases a SCSI harddrive or tape unit do they also get
>a seperate controller card?  If so how many SCSI device can hang off the one
>card?
>

I guess it really depends on where you get it from.  If it is from an IBM
clone dealer, maybe.  They might bundle a controller with a drive, but it
probably will be a cheap 8-bit card.  It will also increase the price for the
drive overall.  If you buy from a Mac house, you will definitely not get one
since Macs have SCSI built in.  Assuming you have a 16-bit bus slot (or better,
if you have EISA), I highly recommend getting a 16-bit (or better) card such
as those from Future Domain, Adaptec, etc. to get the best overall performance.
Forget getting an interface bundled with it.  It rarely is worth the cost.
As for the number of devices, standard SCSI supports 7 devices per host
adapter (addresses 0-6).  Most SCSI devices have dip switches or jumpers on
them to set the address.

By the way, if you are looking at hard drives, I highly recommend the Quantum
SCSI products.  Very reliable and fast!

Good luck!

Michael Maston
GTE Government Systems
Mt. View, CA




Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Unloading Smartdrv
X-To: ALL
Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 12:17:00 GMT

    Is there a way to unload Smartdrv.exe? Maybe with a certain Mark &
Release utility (I've use one, and it didn't work.).

    Or, is there an unloadable cache out there that has background writes
like Smartdrv.exe?


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From: exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (exuptr@exu.ericsson.se)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 8042 GATE A20 ERROR Help!
Date: 15 Sep 92 15:41:39 GMT
Organization: Ericsson Network Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Sep14.231509.8301@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> jgotobed@lpl.arizona.edu (Joe Gotobed x4549) writes:

>This happened after I asked our local vendor if he could upgrade the BIOS
>on this 386DX machine so that we could have a user definable
>disk type (e.g. IDE) he did it one day and claims he tested it
>but I get this error.

>I finaly spoke with him about it and he claims it's my *keyboard* ?

He should have said "keyboard BIOS".  You need to upgrade that when you 
upgrade the main BIOS.

 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    "This must be Thursday.  I never could get the hang of Thursdays"
                                                       - Douglas Adams
  - Patrick Taylor                                       (Arthur Dent)
    Ericsson Network Systems
    exuptr@exu.ericsson.se                       "Don't let the .se fool you"
    or exuptr@ZGNews.Lonestar.Org, exu.exuptr@memo.ericsson.se
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From: jre@earldom.UUCP (Jim Earl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Dial tone, but no dialing
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 92 14:47:10 PDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Lips Esquire, Citrus Heights, CA

dowling@oasys.dt.navy.mil (John Dowling) writes:

>  I have a perplexing problem (at least to me it is) and I was hoping
>  somebody out there has run into a similar problem and solved it.
>  ...when I go to dial out, I can hear a dial tone for about 5 or 6
>  seconds, but no familiar touch-tone dialing.  After 5 or 6 seconds,
>  the dial tone is lost and the message "NO DIALTONE" comes up.

This is your modem's "fault".  If you have a Hayes compatible, try adding

AT X0

or

AT X1

to the modem command string before dialing out.  Most default to X4, which
makes the modem wait for dial tone before dialing out.  It also allows it
to detect a busy signal.  Anyway, it appears that either your phone company
has a set of non-standard tones that the modem doesn't recognize as
"dialtone", or the modem is goofy.

If you set it to X0, that will make the modem "blind dial" (ignore dialtone
and busy signal).  It will only send "CONNECT" to your computer, though.
If you need it to send something like "CONNECT 2400", try X1.

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    (home)       earldom!jre@csusac.ecs.csus.edu          (work)
                        csusac!earldom!jre
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From: pmueller@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Pete Mueller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Gateway's Software Options?
Date: 9 Sep 92 16:51:00 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

bobk@gibdo.engr.washington.edu (Bob) writes:


>  Are the software packages Gateway includes with its systems totally
>  equivalent to the retail software packages?  Are Gateway buyers qualified
>  to all upgrades options that other buyers are?

yes, they are, i bought a Gateway, and have used the software packages, with
both competitive, and vendor upgrades, you get a full package, except for 
the outside box.

-pete

-- 
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pmueller@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu                    | attack, the federal rule
pmueller@sumter.cso.uiuc.edu <--- NeXT Mail  | concerning prayer will be
DISCLAIMER: Help! Help! I'm being Repressed! | temporarily suspended.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: jbradfor@leland.Stanford.EDU (Jeffrey Bradford)
Subject: Re: Windows video speedup cards
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 01:13:17 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.004327.2468@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jzarin@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jason Zarin) writes:
>
>What I want to know is how much of a performance boost can I expect from
>an S3, Speedstar 24X, or ATI Ultra card?

I have the ATI Vantage card (about $260 for the OEM version), and the
speedup is increadible.  I can *smoothly* scroll through text at about 3
screens per second, and maximizing a window is almost immediate.  It makes
Windows usable.  (The only problem I've found with it is that it won't do
interleave in most resolutions.)

>According to PC Mag, some of these video cards actually run slower under
>DOS.  Can someone verify this for me?

In text based stuff, (almost) any video card is fast enough.  In DOS graphics,
my Vantage is slightly faster than my last card, but the difference is 
noticable only by benchmarks.  But that should depend on the individual card.

>What are your experiences?  Is the speedup worth the price?

Three answers: yes, Yes, YES!  (If you want to use Windows for any serious
work.)

Jeffrey Bradford
From: ke@sail.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Comparison of 24X, VRAM and 1280 cards
Keywords: Windows, acceleration, video, Speedstart, Fahrenheit, VRAM, 24X, 1280
Date: 15 Sep 92 04:45:12 GMT
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.

In article <1992Sep11.225918.23014@nosc.mil> gag@nosc.mil (Gary A. Gilbreath) writes:
>I recently ran both the PC Magazine WINBENCH and TI WINTACH benchmarks
>on the Diamond Speedstar 24X, Diamond Stealth VRAM and Orchid Fahrenheit
>1280 Windows accelerator cards (these are the cards I had access to).
>...
>During normal use, I noticed very little difference between any of the cards.

Back when I was in need of testing the latest (at the time) VGA
cards we found that the driver software seemed to be more important
than the electronics: our benchmark tests - written here - seldom
agreed with the "prevailing wisdom" because they acessed the
hardware registers, etc, directly and did not use the provided
drivers.  For example, the ATI Wonder that everyone seemed to rave
about was one of the slowest in our tests.  Hardware seems to be
easier for some companies than does the creation of good driver
software.

ke
From: mcp@netcom.com (Craig Presnell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Need jumper settings for Nuvo 2400bps Modem
Date: 12 Sep 92 12:22:26 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

If anyone out there has a Nuvo 2400bps modem, please send me the
jumper settings. A friend of mine has this modem, but it is conflicting
with another IRQ, and she doesn't have the manual to change the
COM port. Thanks for all replies!!



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ctt31684@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Ching Tai)
Subject: Re: Info on Under-Ware Electronics
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 17:20:28 GMT

na0s+@andrew.cmu.edu (Nicolas Alejandro Arauz) writes:

>I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with UWE (Under-Ware
>Electronics).  They advertise in Computer Shopper, and the also sell
>reconditioned computer equipment.  Has anyone dealt with this company
>before? Could you recommend them or (not) recommend them?  Has anyone
>tried their reconditioned equipment?  Thanks!

Hi,	I won't recommand them.  I once bought a new laptop from them that
looked suspeciously like a used one.  A couple manuals had folded pages and
one torn cover, the case had a few scratch marks.  I called them up about
it, and although they'll refund my money, they won't refund the shipping
cost.  I decided to just keep the machine.
From: isc30108@nusunix3.nus.sg (AMBAT SASI S/O PALISSERY P)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: CGA 160x100x16
Date: 11 Sep 92 12:03:23 GMT
Organization: National University of Singapore

can some1 please post some code (c/asm/pas)
describing how to arrive at this simulated "graphics"
mode with 16 colors 160x100 resolution.
thanks.

sasi.
<last request posted expired>
From: sdbaker@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Stewart Baker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Please help with Bridge Comm Board
Date: 15 Sep 92 00:00:57 GMT
Organization: The Great Beyond


  I recently acquired a 'Bridge Communications' ethernet board.  The 
part number listed on the board is 06-0049-00.  I am looking for info
on programming this board, but if that fails does anyone have the
phone number/ address or even the city where this company is located?
  Thanks a lot for the information.

Stewart Baker
sdbaker@afterlife.ncsc.mil
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From: bobp@hal.com (Bob Pendelton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: Why does HIMEM.SYS not work with some keyboard chips?
Date: 11 Sep 92 14:42:25 GMT
Organization: HaL Computer Systems, Inc.

From article <1992Sep10.164145.14393@rei.com>, by fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox):
> leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson) writes:
> 
>>Apparently so major applications programs *depended* on the wraparound.
> 
> Can anyone give me a logical, sensible reason why any software would
> require that the start of memory (0000) be referenceable from the last
> segment in memory (FFFF)?  It seems to me that if you want to look at
> the start of memory, you start by loading segment 0000, not FFFF!  Who
> would program in such a bizarre manner?

Sure, I can give you lots of them.

1) It's a bug. This is a very likely cause of the problem. Some poor
fool did it accidentally, and since it always worked the problem
wasn't found.

I've seen this sort of thing a number of times. I recall a 10 year old
COBOL program (it would be about 30 years old now and almost certainly
still in use) that finally failed because of a fence post error. A
test that should have been for < was coded for <= and an array bound
was exceeded.

Such is life.

2) RAM CRAM. Do you remember whole engineering groups passing 4K RAM
chips around? Handling them like they were holy icons? Talking in
hushed tones about the possibility of having a machine with 64K RAM?

Do you remember the first time you saw a 64K RAM array on a PC board
and realised that the CPU, glue, and IO chips took up more space on
the PC board than the RAM did?

If you don't, or were born after these events first took place, you
have no concept of how important saving 1 byte of memory was. I've
spent days researching the instruction set and puruesing code to save
5 bytes of instructions.

The original PC had a HUGE amount of memory. And could be expand to 10
times the memory of any other microcomputer that I knew about at the
time.

It still didn't have that much memory. And any clever hack that could
save the cost of one load of one segment register meant more
functionality in your program for a given memory size. The smaller you
program the more people who will buy it. Major applications HAD to fit
into less than 8K bytes so that the other 8+K could be used for data
storage. A BIG floppy in those days stored 160K bytes.

3) Clever Programmer. Some programmers are overly clever jerks who
will use any "neat trick" just because it is a neat trick. The concept
of the "Software Engineer" has come a long way from the original
concept of the programmer.

These may not be "logical, sensible" reasons, but they are real
reasons. 

			Bob P.
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bobp@hal.com              |   1) You've earned an "I told you so."
Speaking only for myself. |   2) Our customers don't do that.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: zinzow@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Mark S. Zinzow)
Subject: Re: Source for 16550AFN's?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 03:47:25 GMT

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.arch
From: schow@bqneh23.bnr.ca (Stanley T.H. Chow)
Subject: Re: Does a 487sx shut down the 486sx??
Organization: Bell Northern Research Ltd, Ottawa
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 22:06:29 GMT

In article <1992Sep4.172131.27778@tandon.com> tdbear@tandon.com (Tom Barrett) writes:
>In article <GLEW.92Sep1091842@pdx007.intel.com> glew@pdx007.intel.com (Andy Glew) writes:
>>Test vectors are cheap. But tester time isn't.  Testers are often the
>>manufacturing bottleneck. 
>
>Andy, since you are in a good position to find out... could
>you post how long it takes to test the 486DX and how long it
>takes for the 486SX?  Then could you provide an approximate
>number of chips which go through one particular tester each
>day (on the average).  I know I am curious about this, and I
>am sure others are, too.

This would indeed be interesting. However, I expect the chance
of Andy being allowed to post such numbers is only very slightly
better than the proverbial snowball in hell.

>I truely cannot believe that the 486sx PGA (which probably
>still has the numeric) would not be tested thoroughly to
>ensure that all of the silicon is working (even though it
>won't be used) since there is a slight chance a damaged
>numerics area might cause contamination to the rest of the
>chip if (say) something overheats.

I assume the 486sx die would have at least disabled or disconnected
the numeric section, therefore it will be untested.

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