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From: ldoming@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu (Lawrence Domingo)
Subject: Using a 4MBx9 SIMM to make 4MB on my system (Can I?)
Organization: Da College of Engineering of da kine University of Hawaii
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 03:47:40 GMT

My system has four SIMM slots for memory that are currently occupied by
(4) 256Kx9 80ns SIMMs to create a measly 1MB of RAM on my system.

I want to expand my system to 4MBs RAM.

Will I have to replace them with (4) 1MBx9 80ns SIMMS or can I put in just
one 4MBx9 80ns SIMM while leaving the other three SIMM slots empty?

Putting in just one 4MBx9 SIMM would cost me about $160 verses $200 for
(4) 1MBx9 SIMMs.  Plus, I wouldn't have to toss the 1MBx9 SIMMs when I
expand again.
From: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: WINDOWS 2.1 AND MSDOS 5.0
Date: 6 Apr 92 15:19:00 GMT
Reply-To: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
Organization: Satalink Info Systems - Huntingdon Valley, PA - 215-364-3324

TO: tgt@neon.ecn.purdue.edu
CT>I have a question regarding the use of MS Windows 2.1 and DOS 5.0.  The DOS
CT>manual states that Windows 2.x will not work with the newest versions of
CT>RAMDRIVE or SMARTDrive.

Why would you want to run Windows 2.x at all?
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From: vxs16@po.CWRU.Edu (Vijayanand Sundaresan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: mouse hardware
Date: 14 Apr 92 21:52:40 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)


i am in need of info about the mouse hardware..the
data formats and voltage levels ..and waveform types and controls
Generally the works to develop a mouse emulator.
it's urgent
you could post it to vxs16@po.cwru.edu
vijay
From: edwong@csa.bu.edu (Edward Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: dos 5 umb, help
Date: 12 Apr 92 19:56:43 GMT
Reply-To: edwong@csa.bu.edu
Organization: Boston University

On some machine when running memory manager such as emm386.exe, it
can get 150k high memory to load the device driver. But on mine, I got only
92k.  I need the extra 50k or so high memory.  How may I get more high
memory?  Is 386MAX any better than QEMM386?
 
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From: cdm-a@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: VGA 50 line mode
Date: 7 Apr 92 22:54:18 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England

I would like to be able to set 80x50 lines or 80x60 line mode on any VGA
card; something which programs like DesqView seem capable of.  The required
mode appears different on different VGA cards....

So it's like to know how (probably using BIOS) I can figure which mode to
use for any given VGA card, or some other way of setting the mode.

Thanks

Colin Melia
cdm-a@minster.york.ac.uk (Internet)
cdm-a@uk.ac.york.minster (JANET)
From: jk87377@cs.tut.fi (Juhana Kouhia)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: What diskette is good?
Date: 15 Apr 92 10:26:48 GMT
Organization: Tampere University of Technology
Originator: jk87377@cs.tut.fi


Hi,

I'm wondering what diskettes (3.5") are good and what are not worth of
using?

So far I have used TDK disks. Now I'm wondering what is the new TDK
disk model 'Super Electron Beam'?
I have observed that the new disks looks more bad than previous ones
(or is it so because the new disks I have are made in USA :-)

Hmm... this group is not heavely used, is there better group
for my article?

Thank you,

Juhana Kouhia
From: bill@chaos.cs.umn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Copy Protection Device on Parallel Port
Date: 15 Apr 92 10:29:19 GMT
Article-I.D.: chaos.bill.703333759
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.

painter@hera (painter) writes:

{stuff deleted]

>  On the other hand, we in the PC community have to realize
>  that software piracy is a genuine problem and neither have
>  most of us done enough to control it among our friends,
>  peers, and co-workers, nor have our brighter technical
>  wizards come up with many good alternatives to dongles.

yea but these stupid things can be easily broken also, they're just a pain
in the a*


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From: tony@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu (Anthony Olejnik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Request for site for PC-SIG vols. 1900-2400
Date: 11 Apr 92 02:32:08 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Pennsylvania



I`m trying to locate some Public Domain/Shareware software in 
the PC-SIG vols. 1900-2400.

Does anyone know of an FTP site which carries these (high) volumns?

Thanks in advance.

--tony
From: gantony@metz.une.oz.au (George Antony)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: xyz.SYS or xyz.COM: which is better ?
Date: 15 Apr 92 10:33:31 GMT

Who knows the answer for this:

Some software come both in a device-driver and executable file form.
The former belongs in the CONFIG.SYS, while the latter can be loaded
either on startup from the AUTOEXEC.BAT, or later.

Assuming that  one wants to load, say, the mouse driver on startup anyway,
is SYS better than COM, or vice versa, or it does not matter ?

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Department of Agricultural Economics and Business Management
University of New England, Armidale, N.S.W. 2351, Australia
Fax: (+61-67) 711531     Phone: (+61-67) 733222 (GMT +10 hrs)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: baker@lhotse.com (William F. Baker)
Subject: Re: Stacker and QEMM optimize question?
Reply-To: baker@lhotse.com
Organization: Storage Technology Corporation
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 15:54:06 GMT

In order to run optimize, you have to REM out the statement in config.sys that runs
sswap.com, then change all references to c: to d: following the sswap command.  You'll
also need to make these changes (c: to d:) in your autoexec.bat and any other file
that refers to your c drive at the boot sequence.  In addition, you'll have to copy
your autoexec.bat file to the same drive that your config.sys is on now.  When you're
all done, reverse the process (I'm assuming that you're using sswap).  It's kind of a
pain, but I use it and it works fine for me.

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From: axa12@po.CWRU.Edu (Ashok Aiyar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Mail Order from Computer Discount Warehouse (CDW)?
Date: 15 Apr 92 13:34:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: usenet.1992Apr15.133437.24960
Reply-To: axa12@po.CWRU.Edu (Ashok Aiyar)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)


In a previous article, haibo@bones.caedm.byu.edu (haibo yu) says:

>I am planning to buy some stuff from the CDW in IL.  Their prices listed in
>PC World are good.  I have several questions before I place the order:
>	1. Do they deliver the parts ordered in time?
>	2. How is the reputation of CDW (service, product quality)?
>
>I need commonts from anyone who has ordered from CDW before.  Thanx.

I have ordered on a few occasions from CDW.  I won't say that their
prices are the lowest around, but their service has been dependable
(deliveries have been on time), and they have accepted returns without
any problem.

Ashok
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: regoli@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Michael Regoli)
Subject: Re: CICA.CICA.INDIANA.EDU Problems...
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 92 21:56:27 GMT

>In article <1992Apr3.055242.16965@cs.hope.edu> hoek@smaug.cs.hope.edu
(Steve &) writes: 

>I'm wondering if anyone else besides me has had problems in the last
>week doing and anonymous FTP to CICA.CICA.INDIANA.EDU after the 5pm
>EST limit on anonymous activity has been lifted?  Have they gone
>completely to no anonymous users?

We're still reeling from the disk crash.  Hopefully we'll be back up
over the weekend (April 11-12).

Stay tuned for more details. 

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regoli@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu
regoli@iubacs.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: ifaules@athena.mit.edu (Ingrid Fritsch-Faules)
Subject: Help: Getting Bios Serial # from DOS Application
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 14:05:37 GMT


Can somebody tell me if there is a way to access the BIOS Serial # from
a DOS application?  Any help would be appreciated.

(System Setup: 486 (AMI BIOS), DOS 5.0, Borland C++ 3.0)


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ctt31684@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (CMP)
Subject: Re: 386-33 vs 386-40
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 18:28:45 GMT

neilson@cs.sfu.ca (Carl Neilson) writes:
>I have heard of problems with the 386-40 (ie some tape drive won't work
>with it because the bus speed is too high).  Are there many problems with
>the 386-40?  Should I save $30 and go with the 386-33?
>Any (& all) comments would be appreciatted

>Carl Neilson
>(neilson@sfu.ca)
Hi,	I've also got this kind of problems before (not only with tape drive
controllers, but also with Sound blaster).  The problems disappeared after
I slowed down the bus speed using an option in the cmos setup.  I think 
most (if not all) of the 386/40 and 33 motherboards have such an option...
well, maybe it's only in the new boards.

-Ching, as in "Tai"

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: jfile@bmers193.bnr.ca (Jonathan File)
Subject: DOS 5.0 and Logitech mouse menu troubles
Reply-To: jfile@bnr.ca
Organization: Bell Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 16:40:40 GMT

I was having trouble with my Logitech mouse and logimenu (version 4) after
I got DOS 5.0.  I got my hands on the new mouse driver (version 6) after
I was told that was what my trouble was.  It hasn't helped.  The problem is:

When I load the mouse driver (v6) and logimenu, then go into dosshell and
start an application, I get a message saying that the mouse driver
needs to be loaded.  If I then load the mouse driver, it says it
*already* is loaded.  Arrrrrg!

I tried not loading mouse and logimenu before going into dosshell.
Of course this was annoying because I didn't have a mouse pointer.
In this scenerio when I load the mouse driver from within the shell
I get the nice message:

     MS-DOS Task Switchers' POP-UP program support
Your pop-up program has been loaded and you may activate it as you
would normally.  When you have finished using this pop-up program,
exit and press ctrl-C to return to shell.

At this point the only thing I can do is press ctrl-C, and then the
mouse driver is no longer loaded.

Everything works just fine if I am not trying to launch the application
from within dosshell.

I am wondering if there is an incompatibility between mouse driver v6 and
logimenu v4.  Anyone else had this problem or can advise me what I need
to do?

Thanks,
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Date: Tuesday, 7 Apr 1992 15:25:54 CET
From: Jon <JBEST@ESOC.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject:    File formats

Sorry if you've seen this before but following my last inquiry I got
zero response and I NEED help! Please guys.....

I need to know what the structure of DXF files is. These file types are
supported by CoralDRAW and also by a package called CIMCAD. Unfortunately
these aren't quite the same types since the CIMCAD product seems to miss
off some sort of header (whether a header block, header file, or what I
don't know).

I need to be able to tweak the CIMCAD files so that CoralDRAW can read
them. Sooooo: does anyone out there know exactly what this DXF format is,
where I can find information about it, or any other help?

Any info appreciated....

   Jon
From: swfc@cs.columbia.edu (Shu-Wie F Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: IBM PC jr
Date: 16 Apr 92 15:54:12 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science


I have an old IBM PC jr which I would like to sell.  Can anyone tell
me the going rate for such a machine?  Or is it only worth peanuts?

Please e-mail me directly.

Thanks,
*swfc

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From: schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Atari ST disks <-------> IBM DOS disks ?
Date: 8 Apr 92 15:05:53 GMT
Organization: PANIX - Public Access Unix Systems of NY

In article <10880@chalmers.se> dxper@dtek.chalmers.se (Per Anders Olausson) writes:
>
>  What about the "ST harddisk layout"...is it the same as the one used on
>IBM-compatible systems? Can I eg. move a ST formatted harddisk over to a PC
>without having to reformat it?

I tried that long ago. The sectors are readable, but the partition table
is not valid for MSDOS. However pc-ditto, a (now defunct) XT emulator
for the Atari, was able to read/write a hard disk on an ST machine.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: Iskandar Taib <ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Program to Low Level Format IDE drive
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 09:32:25 -0500

In article <1992Apr04.220959.1299@crash.cts.com> jimf@pro-woolf.cts.com (Jim Frost) writes:

>Check out SpinRite, low-level format without having to backup the hard
>drive.


It doesn't work with IDE's. Or with SCSI's or anything that does
sector translation. For the older MFM and RLL drives its great!



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From: roelof@parst1.UUCP (Roelof van Suilichem)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: RE: REPARTITION HARD DISK
Date: 10 Apr 92 11:21:26 GMT
Organization: Paradigm Systems Technology

In article <609.1092.uupcb@satalink.com> john.will@satalink.com (John Will) writes:

>TO: brudiakg@isis.cs.du.edu
>BR.The idea is to create a big unmovable contiguous
>  .file on the current partition, and then edit the partition table to
>  .make DOS think that this file is the second partition.  I could
>  .write to the file and read from the partition to make sure things
>  .were in the right place, and then format the partition.  As long
>  .as nothing happened to the file, everything would be all right.
>  .
>  .So, you MS-DOS techie types, will this work?

>I've never been crazy enough to try it, if we see further posts from
>you, we'll assume that it worked, right? :-)

One could probably manage something like that, but there would be a lot
of details to keep in mind.  However, I would very much like to know 
_WHY_WHY_WHY_ on earth you want do do something like that.

Given reason interesting enough, will provide help.  I have fairly extensive
background on DOS partitioning, FATs etc.

Roelof       rvs@parst1.UUCP
From: johnsomr@newton.ccs.tuns.ca (Mark R Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: trident VGA programming
Keywords: VGA, ram, trident
Date: 8 Apr 92 13:18:40 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Nova Scotia, Halifax, N.S.

Does anyone have information on how to do direct RAM writes to
a Trident VGA card?  Can you tell me where to find such info?
Please reply by e-mail.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: harper@convex.com (David Harper)
Subject: Re: Copy Protection Device on Parallel Port
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 17:53:12 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

In article <bill.703333759@chaos.cs.umn.edu> bill@chaos.cs.umn.edu writes:
>painter@hera (painter) writes:
>
>{stuff deleted]
>
>>  On the other hand, we in the PC community have to realize
>>  that software piracy is a genuine problem and neither have
>>  most of us done enough to control it among our friends,
>>  peers, and co-workers, nor have our brighter technical
>>  wizards come up with many good alternatives to dongles.
>
>yea but these stupid things can be easily broken also, they're just a pain
>in the a*
>
>
>--
>bill@chaos.cs.umn.edu


Actually, it is not as easy as you might think.  Five years ago these things
were fairly easy to crack, which is probably why todays models are a little
tougher.
From: M04002@BARILVM.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Stacker crash
Date: 15 Apr 92 07:03:17 GMT
Organization: Bar-Ilan University Computing Center, Israel


                        **** HELP!!!!!! ****

Hello,

  I am using a 60MB stacker volume with Stacker version 2.0.
Yesterday, while I was using MathCAD (which was on my Stacker drive) through
Windows 3.0, I got a non-recoverable error and I had to reset the computer.
After that, my Stacker volume did not work anymore. I get a message that looks
something like this: STACKER d:=c:stacvol.000 - NOT A STACKER VOLUME, not
mounted.
The volume still exists with the same size it was before. Is there ANY way to
fix or recover anthing from the stacker volume?

  Thanx,

     Eddie Samet

     SAMET@CCSG.TAU.AC.IL
     M04002@VM.BIU.AC.IL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: windows 3.1 upgrade, how?
Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1992 22:07:52 GMT

In article <d257988@pro-gallup.cts.com> bigfoot@pro-gallup.cts.com (Darren McDaniel) writes:
>In <EDWONG.92Apr1133657@csa.bu.edu> edwong@csa.bu.edu (Edward Wong) writes:
>
>>If I have windows 3.0 and I want to upgrade to 3.1, do I need to contact
>>Microsoft?  Or it is just the dos 5.0 upgrade?
>>--
>>8)
>If you are a registered user of Win 3.0 you should have received a little
>information in the mail..   Registered users of win 3.0 for around $50.00.
>

I think Microsoft must have missed some of us.  I ought to be
registered (I got my last Windows direct from MS, as well as my last
copies of WinWord and Excel) and I don't recall getting anything from
Microsoft about the upgrade.

Is there an 800 number for this that someone can give me?

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From: baughmankr@stat.appstate.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: 2nd hard drive installed. Light stays on?????
Date: 15 Apr 92 15:30:00 GMT
Organization: Appalachian State University


I'm trying to connect a new but used hard drive (a 42 meg Seagate STS-251)
with my other hard drive (another STS-251) in my 286 clone.  I have
an MFM controller card.  The boot drive is the last drive in the daisy
chain.  The cable has a twist in it just prior to that last connector.
The terminator resistor is in place on the boot drive.

The boot drive is formatted into a 32 meg and an 8 meg drive using
Seagate's Disk Manager.

After setting things up in the manner described above, I was able to
access all the drives.  Drive D (the 8 meg partition on my old drive)
was moved to drive E by the computer.  The new hard drive became Drive D.

The problem I had at this point was the drive light staying on one or the
other hard drives, whether I was accessing it or not.

Wanting to wipe the new hard drive free of its data, I used
Disk Manager to low level format the drive.  Now for my second problem.
Upon attempting a reboot, the computer would not boot until I went 
into set-up and told it I did not have the second drive.

Anyone got any idea what's going on?  It appears that the cables are 
hooked up correctly else I wouldn't have had access to the drives 
initially.  It seems to me that Disk Manager has changed something.  
I'd reformat the drive from DOS but everytime I tell set-up I have the 
second drive, the computer won't boot.

At the same time, something appears to be askew in the hardware else 
the drive lights would not have stayed on when they weren't supposed 
to. 

Open for suggestions.  And thanks in advance.

Kinney Baughman
baughmankr@conrad.appstate.edu