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From: cheung@eplrx7.es.duPont.com (Bryan Cheung)
Subject: Sound Cards? Sound Blaster? Sound Blaster Pro??
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Organization: DuPont Engineering Physics Laboratory
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 04:03:26 GMT

Hi,
   I am considering the purchase of a sound card for a DOS machine, and
I am looking for info on the merits and faults of various sound cards
available for IBM/IBM compatible PCs. Of particular interest are the
Sound Blaster and Sound Blaster Pro cards. A local dealer is going out
of business and claims that $80 and $139 are "unbeatable" prices for
these sound boards. I have several questions:
   * Just how "unbeatable" are these prices?
   * What other, superior sound boards are available & why are they superior?
   * What features of the SB Pro board are really better than the vanilla SB?
   * Are there features of the SB that were left out of the SB Pro?
   * Are there many cool apps available that take advantage of SB/SB Pro??
   * Is the programmer interface to SB/SB Pro usable/desirable/effective??
All responses/experiences will be greatly appreciated, and I will generate
a summary if there is interest. Please respond via email to the address
below.
                            Thanks in advance,

                                -- Bryan Cheung
                                         cheung@eplrx7.es.duPont.com

-- 

                                -- Bryan Cheung
                                         cheung@eplrx7.es.duPont.com
                                         cheungbl@csoc.dnet.duPont.com
From: thomas@plxsun (Thomas Leibold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Matrox Impression TrueColor video card ?
Date: 15 Dec 92 10:04:48 GMT
Organization: PLEXUS Software, a division of REI
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

djlewis@ualr.edu wrote:
: In article <1992Dec12.092649.10814@plx.com>, thomas@plxsun (Thomas Leibold) writes:
: > However I found now advertising for the following card:
: > 
: > Matrox Impression 1024
: > 24-bit TrueColor card
: > 1024x768x24bit
: > 3MB VRAM
: > S3 Chip
: > $655
: > 
: 
: The latest BYTE has a an excellent review of 24bit truecolour cards, MATROX
: included. 
: 	Where did you find it for 655.00
: don lewis
: djlewis@ualr.edu

Thanks to everybody who replied. According to several messages the above card
was just reviewed in the last "BYTE" as well as a recent "Computer Shopper".
The $655 value from my original question came from the company Miracle which
has offices in San Jose 1-800-969-8177 and Anaheim 1-800-446-9929 California.

Thomas


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PLEXUS Software, a division of REI. 1310 Chesapeake Terrace, Sunnyvale CA 94089
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: Peter Monks<P.D.MONKS@UK.AC.BHAM>
Subject: (None set)
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 10:08:55 GMT
Organization: The University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

==============================================================================
Hi, just a short query about a US computer manufacturer.  In the latest issue
of "computer shopper" I read with  delight an ad for a 486sx-25 all inclusive
for 999 pounds!  The manufacture Vtech claims to be, and I quote "one of the
world's largest computer manufacturers employing around 10,000 people ... and
boasting their own state-of-the-art research and development centre in
California...but almost unheard of in the UK"  Ok all you US computer users I
want to know whether this is true and experiences with their pc's for
their offer sounds too tempting to resist.  I look forward to glowing
rewviews...replys by mail please...I expect at least one from one of their
10000 employees...!

Thanks in anticipation,

Peter Monks.

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From: cbusch@ub.d.umn.edu (Chris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Computer problems
Date: 12 Dec 92 08:31:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: ub.1gdi6gINN4n9
Distribution: world
Organization: University of Minnesota, Duluth
NNTP-Posting-Host: ub.d.umn.edu

--
Chris Busch   CBUSCH@ub.d.umn.edu
"C++ is the language of choice."
"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore,
    be reguarded as a criminal offense." - E. W. Dijkista 
"High-level languages should remove burden from the programmer, not
 put burden on the programmer!"
"Don't ask 'why would you do that?' instead ask 'why wouldn't you do that?'"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: v923137@vms.ucc.okstate.edu
Subject: Re: Diamond Speedstar 24 vs Diamond Stealth
Organization: Oklahoma State University Computer Center
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 04:10:38 GMT

In article <1992Dec20.033446.16013@ncar.ucar.edu>, smw@sage.cgd.ucar.edu (Steve Welch) writes:
> 
> Just a warning on the Diamond Speedstar 24X:  The Windows 3.1 drivers that
> they supply with the board don't seem to work in some pretty ordinary
> configurations.  I tried to install Word for Windows and kept getting
> GPF's until I went back to the Microsoft VGA driver (suggested by Diamond
> tech support).  After the install, I put back their drivers, but no luck--
> it would still crash and burn every once and a while on my 486/33 clone
> (especially while printing to my LaserJet III w/Postscript).  Their tech
> support was useless and infuriating, to wit--"We know about the problem, but
> we didn't write the drivers... No, we don't know when it will be fixed...
> No, we won't call you when it is fixed...  No, we won't FedEx the fix to 
> you when it is done...  We will mail it to you US mail."  
> 
> They WERE gravely offended when told that this was Bullshit, and told me
> to send the product back for a full refund.  I don't think they were willing
> to pay me for the time I spent verifying that their product doesn't work,
> though.
> 
> But I'm not bitter...
>  
> ---
> Steve Welch    

I have a 24X and a Stealth VRAM, and am very satisfied with both products.  
I did have some compatibility problems with the VRAM when I first got it,
but tech support got me going in a matter of minutes over the phone.
I run the 24X in windows with a Viewsonic 6e in 1024x768x256 with no
problems at all.  Perhaps you have a BIOS incompatibilty with the card?

Good luck-
Jason

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
From: buchignani@hg.uleth.ca
Subject: Re: Help!  My friends 8512 PS/2 VGA monitor fried!!!
Reply-To: buchignani@hg.uleth.ca
Organization: University of Lethbridge
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 17:14:07 GMT

There is one think possible that might be fixable by your friend, but
this would have been more likely in the first phase than in the 
grey smoke phase. All monitors generate 20 kv or so to drive the 
crt. This generates a big static field around to tube, which can
attract large amounts of dust. It is possible that the high voltage
has found a conducting path through some of this grunge. This
might have been corrected by some careful cleaning, but if this
path has melted something thereafter, well...

Alternatively, you might have fried your flyback transformer.
    Norm Buchignani/University of Lethbridge/BUCHIGNANI@HG.ULETH.CA
"If we have been accustomed to deplore the spectacle...of a workman occupied
during his whole life in nothing else but the making of knife-handles or pins'
heads, we may find something quite as lamentable in the intellectual class, in
the exclusive employment of a human brain in resolving some equations, or in
classifying insects. [This] occasions a miserable indifference about the
general course of human affairs, as long as there are equations to solve and
pins to manufacture."                                      Auguste Comte
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: drudetb@infonode.ingr.com (Ted B. Drude)
Subject: Re: Ati Ultra Pro question
Keywords: ati ultra pro
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 01:24:20 GMT

In article <1992Dec11.024206.29531@utkux1.utk.edu> harp@martha.utcc.utk.edu (harp) writes:
>
>You mean to tell me that the MACH32 drivers don't crash windows about every
>ten minutes?  It does on the Gateway 486DX2/66V that I deal with.  Build 50
>seems about as horrible as 44 or 46.  Gateway hasn't got a clue how bad the
>problem is.  I hope that ATI does.
>

Sean,  you keep saying that your Gateway w/ ATI GUP crashes Windows
every ten minutes.  Exactly what applications are crashing?
I've been running a machine with the Micronics motherboard and ATI GUP
VLB with 2MB VRAM for several hours a day without a hitch.  I'm using
the Mach 32 drivers in 1024x768 mode at both 256 and hi-color.  The only
problems I've had are some very minor palette problems with a high-end
rendering and animation package that was already known to have problems
running in hi-color.  That app crashed often with the first version
(1.0) of ATI drivers,  but the Build 50 drivers are very stable.
BTW my board has 2MB VRAM and the 68830 DAC,  if that matters.

- Ted D.
Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:33640 comp.sys.apple2:25748
From: wiedeman@uci.edu (Lyle Wiedeman)
Subject: Parallel printers
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.apple2
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 18 Dec 92 17:04:44 GMT

I always thought, in the world of personal computers and parallel
printers, that "a printer is a printer is a printer" and with my
trusty old Epson LX80, I've never been disappointed -- no matter
what computer I've plugged it into, it has worked (Apple II, PC
clone, Kaypro 10 CP/M, Amiga 1000...).

Now I have a Smith-Corona D200 (which to all appearances is a simple
dot matrix printer, except that it has both serial and parallel
interfaces.)  This printer works connected to a PC clone, but NOT
when connected to any of the other machines (I particularly wish
it to work with an Apple IIe.)  I laid out my two printers and
my four computers and happily swapped cables at the printer side
to verify this.

Any idea at all what could be wrong?
--
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	wiedeman@UCI.BITNET           Irvine, CA  92717
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From: leo@snake31.cs.wisc.edu (Leo Lim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: UART 16550afn seller needed!
Date: 16 Dec 92 22:19:05 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: U of Wisconsin Madison - Computer Sciences

Hi there!

	I need to replace my UART 8250 with UART 16550 afn. Is it possible?
If so, Does anybody know where to get it at pretty good price?
I knew it was something like $49/ chip.

thanks in advance.

=== Martin
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: iisakkil@lk-hp-17.hut.fi (Mika Iisakkila)
Subject: Re: Where the mac really wins
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
	<92Dec06.084034.22132@acs.ucalgary.ca>
	<1ftmu0INN1jk@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <BzBnCH.40D@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
Date: 17 Dec 92 13:46:11 GMT

ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
>>>1280x1024x256 1024x768x32K 800x600x16.7M 640x480x16.7M

>Diamond Speedstar 24X. $155. Oops.. thats not $350. Well,
>buy two then.

Do an arithmetic shift right with the numbers of colours, feeding in 16
from the left. Nice card though, I have one. It makes Windows feel
like you're using a real computer.

--
Segmented Memory Helps Structure Software
From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 3-chip vs 9-chip SIMMs?
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 11:27:37 GMT
Organization: Global Village 1

shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu (David S. Shy) writes:

>from the timeline of my life and my near-never-ending-search-for-the-right-
>simms, i would say that the 9 chips are older...

Yep, that is true.

>about 2-3 months ago, i wnated to upgrade... since i wanted to use
>the 9 chips (peace of mind and etc... although my dealer just told
>me to use 1X9  (9 doesn't represent 9 chips here!  learned the hard
>way...) simms...)

Yep, 2x4+1 = 9. The 3 chip SIMM versions have two 4x1Mbit chips and 1x1Mbit
chip. Together that is 9x1Mbit. The storage is equal to 9x1Mbit chips, but
the refresh cycle isn't.

>8 then realized that they were 3 chips....  eventually he convinced
>me that it'll wok on my computer...

Not on all computers! The problem is that the 3 chip SIMMs have a refresh cycle
that differs from the 9 chip SIMMs. Older motherboards can run into problems
when they can't refresh the 3 chip SIMMs properly. Newer motherboards don't
have this problem, as most of them support but the 9 chip and 3 chip versions.

>i have 4 1 meg 9 chip simms and 8 1 meg 3 chips (all 70 ns)
>and all 9 chip in their own bank 3 chips in their own bank...
>if you mix them in teh same bank, you might run into problems...

Quite probably, due to the different refresh cycles.

Greetings,
Peter Busser
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
From: jwa@vipunen.hut.fi (Jyrki J Wahlstedt)
Subject: Re: "Windoze" slow? Naah...Re: pc and mac: was RE: 486 and mac benchmarks
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: 13 Dec 92 23:45:59

In article <Bz3x7z.1LD@unix.amherst.edu> hjwulfso@unix.amherst.edu (Harris Wulfson) writes:

>Imagine that. MacDraw for Windows! I don't think it will happen
>because Claris is a spinoff of Apple Computer.

  Hmm, they have produced Filemaker and QuickTime to Windows. And
  they have not worked remarkably well with Mac programs, e.g.
  MacWrite and HyperCard (Pro should have been around long time ago
  as well as color HC). It really looks like they have nearly
  left Macs for Windows. (confusion)
--
!
!	Jyrki Wahlstedt
!		Jyrki.Wahlstedt@hut.fi
!
!  Our life is no dream, but it should and will perhaps become one.
!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ggawron@comm.mot.com (Glenn Gawron)
Subject: Re: Please your opinions on these 15" monitors
Organization: Motorola
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 13:44:49 GMT

In article <BzEwCJ.73F@encore.com> mpalmer@encore.com (Mike Palmer) writes:
>From: mpalmer@encore.com (Mike Palmer)
>Subject: Re: Please your opinions on these 15" monitors
>Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 16:26:42 GMT

>reisert@mast.enet.dec.com (Alpha Personal Systems -- DTN 223-5747 -- MLO3-6/B8) writes:

>>What are your opinions of the following monitors, preferably if you've used
>>more than one?

>>       Monitor                 Price   Best price at:
>>       -------                 -----   --------------

>>       TVM MediaScan 5A+       $459    Insight
>>               liked by _PC World_

>>       Mag MX15F               $559    TC (Treasurer Chest)
>>               liked by _PC World_

>>       Optiquest 2000D         $589    TC
>>               liked by _Byte_

>Very nice picture - best I found

>>       NEC 3FGX                $600    S+W
>>               liked by everyone

>>       Viewsonic 6FS           $619    Essense

>Poor (or totally lacking) quality control

Actually, my Viewsonic has given me no problems.  A friend of mine has an 
NEC 4FG and you really can't tell them apart in graphics quality!!
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From: rick@rgb.com (Rick Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: NO Product support. BOYCOTT?
Date: 18 Dec 92 17:47:40 GMT
Organization: RGB Spectrum


I like the current system where companies that give lousy support
or fail to give any are flamed wildly on the net.  Better use of bandwidth
than, say, alt.fan.dan-quayle. I for one have avoided certain companies
with bad net.reputations, and I'm sure some more of the 1.8 million people
who read news have done the same.


-- 
                   R  G  B  Spectrum
              950 Marina Village Parkway  / "You can't fight in here - this
                  Alameda, California     / is the war room!" - Dr. Stragelove
                     rick@rgb.com
From: 6500boo@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (William Bushing)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Mountain Tape Drive Eats DC-2120 Tapes ???
Date: 17 Dec 92 02:34:28 GMT
Distribution: comp

I recently had a serious problem with a Mountain internal
250 meg tape drive. After placing a tape with backed-up data
in the drive, I tried to restore the tape to the hard drive.
I got a "Tape Not Formatted" error message. The manual sug-
gested I re-tension the tape, which I did with no luck. I
tried four other tapes that had been backed up under that
drive or another QIC-80 drive all with the same result.

When I looked closely at the tapes, I discovered that each
tape had been cut and was turned into spaghetti inside the
casing. A total of 5 tapes (about $110) destroyed by the
drive... and we're a non-profit organization! All tapes were
new and had been used just once.

My question is... has anyone else had a similar problem with
the Mountain drives (or others). If so, I want to collect
details on incidents and submit them to Mountain in the hopes
they will replace the destroyed tapes. Will gladly supply a
summary for others who have had a similar problem. 

E-mail me direct. Thanks in advance.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
William W. (Boo) Bushing  |  "Life is too important to be
6500boo@ucsbuxa.bitnet    |       taken seriously"
6500boo@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu  | 
bushing@lifesci.ucsb.edu  |            - Einstein
Marine Biotechnology Lab   Univ. of Calif. Santa Barbara
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:33187 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:15807 comp.sys.amiga.misc:18572
From: rfentima@ub.d.umn.edu (Robert Fentiman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga now kicks PC butt - no way.
Date: 14 Dec 1992 22:44:49 -0600
Organization: University of Minnesota, Duluth
NNTP-Posting-Host: ub.d.umn.edu

In article <BzA8ys.AFF@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
>In article <1992Dec3.014534.16766@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> dmacphee@nyx.cs.du.edu (Don mac phee) writes:

>> The 4000 ships with 6M of Ram and a 120M drive. Besides, you need to
>>remember that OS/2 and Windows eat the first 2M of Ram when you
>>boot up. The Amy eats about 300K.
>                             ^^^^

>And how big did you say those OS ROMs were? What do you do to upgrade
>a version?

The Amiga ROMs are currently 512K.  The new Amigas (1200 and 4000) allow
for up to a 2 meg ROM if the need ever arises.  To upgrade to a new OS,
just plug the ROM chip into the slot, and you're ready to go.   Boot off
of a Workbench disk (or other bootable disk) and you're up and running. 
Of course, I (and many other Amiga users) will probably install the 
Workbench programs on the hard drive.  It's not necessary to do so, but
preferable.
 
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Iskandar Taib                          | The only thing worse than Peach ala
>Internet: NTAIB@SILVER.UCS.INDIANA.EDU |    Frog is Frog ala Peach
>Bitnet:   NTAIB@IUBACS                 !


	Thanks
	Robert Fentiman

UseNet: rfentima@ub.d.umn.edu
At: University of Minnesota, Duluth


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov (John Hutchinson)
Subject: Re: MAG Montitor by Innovision ..??
Reply-To: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 20:32:19 GMT

In article 724183629@phage.cshl.org, stellabo@phage.cshl.org (Fred Stellabotte) writes:
>Does anyone have any experience with the MAG Multisync
>Monitors by Innovision ..??
>
>I am considering the 17" version of this monitor ..
>Also .. any ideas on a  good Windows Acceraltor
>card ..??


Well, if it means anything, I've got the 15" MAG MX15F and love it.  I've only
heard good things about the 17" unit.

The Diamond Stealth is still an excellent Windows accelerator but you might
want to look at the ATI Graphics Ultra Pro as well.
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From: wa95003@oxford.ac.uk (Martin J Bligh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: WANTED: Jumper info for Quantam 240AT drive
Date: 18 Dec 92 18:30:31 GMT
Organization: Oxford University Computing Service, 13 Banbury Rd, Oxford, UK
Originator: wa95003@black

Does anyone have the jumper info for a 240Mb Quantam Prodrive LPS?

I have two of these (IDE) drives, and need to set one as master, and one 
as slave. So far, I have three sets of info, all completely contradictory, 
and none of which work. I have three jumper sets - SP, DS, and CS.

Thanks for any info,
Fletch.
From: aoki@risk.stanford.edu (ikuro aoki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: EISA/VL-Bus combination MBs #2
Date: 18 Dec 92 22:41:15
Organization: Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: risk.stanford.edu
In-reply-to: wbedard@wezea.usc.edu's message of 17 Dec 1992 06:20:59 -0800

Hello

  >>Could someone please give me COMPLETE names and/or 800 # for 
  >>these manufacturers.

Advanced Integration Research, Inc. 
2188 Del Franco St.,San Jose, CA 95131
phone:(408)428-0800 facsimile:(408)428-0950

Excuse me, I don't know the phone number of NICE and Hawk.

NICE's motherboard is avairable from,
Central Computer Systems, Inc.
820 Kiely Blvd.,Santa Clara,CA 95051
phone:(408)241-0815 facsimile:(408)241-0390
(EISA/VLB 256k cache w/o CPU $595, current price)

Hawk motherboard is avairable from,
PC Warehouse (Palo Alto shop)
454A California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA
phone:(415)321-9288

  >>I know that this info is probably readily available 
  >>but what exactly do you mean when you say that 50 MHz exceeds 
  >>the VESA recommendation.

I meant simply as same as I wrote. For 50 MHz(ext.) clock machines,
any external(slot) peripherals are not recommended to implement.
The VESA VL-bus Specification Version 1.0 is avirable from the VESA.
($100 for individuals)

The Video Electronics Standards Association
2150 North First Street, Suite 440, San Jose, CA 95131-2020

  >>All I know is that 2 is the widely accepted limit for the number of 
  >>VL-Bus slots that a cpu can handle as far as load is concered.

Detailed information is described in the standard. 
			Un-buffered Design	Buffered Design
			Slots	Devices		Slots 	Devices
33MHz or slower		2	2		3	3
40MHz			1	2		(not recommended)
50MHz or faster		0	2		(not recommended)

According to my humble experiences, localbus devices are not so easy
to use in very high speed motherboards(40/50MHz) as slow ISA boards.
I am using Orchid F1280/VLB but I had to consider memory waits, slot
position(my problem was position dependent), software improvements.

Sorry for my slow responce and bad(really) english writing.
--
Ikuro Aoki
aoki@risk.Stanford.EDU