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From: cn0gr8af@hydra.unm.edu (Student Class Account)
Subject: Re: How do I get hi res out of DECpc 452ST?
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 93 08:31:42 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <1993Jan5.115350.16234@slcs.slb.com> brydon@dsn.SINet.slb.com writes:
>I purchased a DECpc 452ST from Digital Equipment Corp, with their high
>resolution graphics card and 20" screen.  No matter what I do, I can't get
>more than VGA (640X480) resolution out of the thing.  I would like to get at
>least 1024X768, and 1280X1024 would be better.  Is there anybody out there
>that has a DECpc xxxST that managed to get it working properly?  DEC sold it
>to me and they don't have a clue.
>
> FR-PCXAG-AD 1280X1024 hi res adapter (TI 34020)
> VR320-DA and/or NEC 6FG monitor
>The TI34020 has 2 Megs memory
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>Harvey Brydon         | Internet:   brydon@dsn.SINet.slb.com
>Dowell Schlumberger   | P.O.T.S.:   (918)250-4312


I don't own one of the DEC cards, but I have researched them fully, and
would have bought one if they had any OS/2 support.

The card is not made by DEC, but is made by Appian.  If DEC didn't provide
you with any drivers, you might want to try these guys, although I doubt
they would be willing to help as they sell a competing product.

It is unfortunate that you plunked down the money for that card.  
It is quite expensive (~$1600). 

There is programmable memory on the card; which allows a driver to 
to load (onto the board itself) C programs or routines to 
speed up some graphics operations.  Other accelerator chipsets like the
S3 chipset, etc. have certain graphics functions hard coded on the card,
and are not programmable.  While programmable routines are a nice feature,
they are absolutely useless unless you have people writing drivers or 
routines for them.  The TIGA architecture has some nice support in the
UNIX community, but has almost none in the DOS/Windows world (except for
CAD users).  At best, a driver is provided for Win 3.1, but I have never
seen a Windows benchmark for a 34020 board (~$1500) beat an ATI ULTRA
board (~$500).

Incidently, although I have a poor opinion of the support offered for
the DEC card, I would be interested in purchasing yours, should you decide
you would like to replace it.  I have done some BIOS programming for the
TSENG 4000 chipset, and would like to attempt to write some drivers for 
the TIGA chipset.  Aside from that, I have a nice fixed frequency monitor
that is presently going to waste.  So, if you want to replace your card with 
an ATI graphics Ultra Pro, or most any other, I would be more than happy
to give you cash for such a purchase (and maybe a bit extra) in return for
the card. 

Good luck!
Rusty

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From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: What 486motherboards work with Buslogic 542B SCSI
Date: 4 Jan 93 20:13:56 GMT
Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY

In article <1993Jan01.205952.10674@omen.UUCP>, caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg) writes:

| Not so long ago I went thru several motherboards in search of
| one that operated properly with more than 16MB main memory.  I
| never found an ISA board that would pass a through memory test
| program, let alone Unix under load.

  I have been using AIR for 486, and some $175 386-40 boards, both of
which run SCO, Dell, etc flawlessly. I have several home and about half
a dozen at work, and have sold a number of complete systems with the
AIR, so I'm confident that I'm not just lucky. I run 256k cache on the
486, 64 on the 386.

  I haven't had any problems with Micronics or AMI boards in ISA,
although I'm told that some revisions of Micronics had problems.

-- 
bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: harper@convex.com (David Harper)
Subject: Re: HELPDESK CD-ROM wanted.
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 23:49:18 GMT
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
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 <1993Jan8.112027.7151@gw.wmich.edu> 20lim@gw.wmich.edu writes:
>Hi,
>	I found an advertisement in a Magazine a few months ago selling 
>a CD-ROM for a helpdesk. Ie The CD-ROm includes all technical support 
>problems and fixes for software and hardware. Yeah, you guessed it.
>I've lost it.

I suspect the company you are looking for is Computer Library; they make
several CD-ROMs in this catagory (Support on Site, Computer Select, etc.).
They have three ads in the latest issue of PC Magazine - 1/26/93 (check
pages 365, 371 & 406).

Dave
From: Brian.Milner@brunel.ac.uk (Brian D Milner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Norton Desktop and Norton Utilities
Date: 12 Jan 93 18:24:34 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, West London, UK

> From: spader@elmer.cs.mcgill.ca (Yoo-Shin LEE)
> Subject: Norton Desktop and Norton Utilities
> Date: 7 Jan 93 15:55:36 GMT
> Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
> 
> I'd like to know why Norton Destop 1.0 for windows doesn't have a
> disk/file checker?  It has the "disk doctor" but this disk doctor
> doesn't check your whole disk or files.  Norton utilities on the other
> hand does.  Am I missing something?

I believe the idea is, within the Windows multitasking interface, you
can safely check disks for errors, but not cure them or do the surface
test. This is why you have Norton Disk Doctor for DOS, and Norton
Disk Diagnostitian for Windows.

However, I could have sworn than I've done just that. (Run NDD from windows
and repaired / labelled bad sectors with it). Maybe you can, but it's
just not safe.

Norton have included NDD on the NDW Fix-It disks, though - so you don't
lose out on functionality when you get NDW.

Hmmm ?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: allan@sunk.hc.ti.com (Allan Poindexter)
Subject: FFF and Sweep
Organization: TI Computer Science Center, Dallas
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 11:09:58 GMT


We are looking for the authors of two utilities FFF (Fast File Find)
whose author is unknown and Sweep whose author is Charles Petzold.  Does
anyone know how to contact the authors of either of these utilities?

Thanks in advance, dex
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: GJAMES@HUSKY1.STMARYS.CA (GJames)
Subject: Print Screen to HP Deskjet... How?????
Organization: Saint Mary's University
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:13:51 GMT

The subject says it all.

The HP DeskJet doent have a switch setting for graphics. Do I have to buy a 
font cartg. ?  Is there a software solution available. 


 Thanks for any information.
From: leone@wpi.WPI.EDU (Dave Leone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: wanna expand my RAM
Date: 9 Jan 1993 03:30:20 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu
Summary: We're stupid

I have a ibm ps1 16mhz 386sx 2mb RAM thing.  I (and a friend with the same
type o thing) wish to expand it to 4 mb but it seems we can't find a 
memory board small enough to fit into the machine (11 " exp. slots).  Anyone
know if there ech a board, or any names of software that can turn
extended memory into expanded memory?!?!?!?!?

Please try to respond via email.  Or not. 


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: bmwu@athena.mit.edu (Benson M. Wu)
Subject: Need Help to make HP LaserJet I work
Keywords: Microsoft Works 2.0 & HP LaserJet I
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 02:36:39 GMT
Expires: Sun, 31 Jan 1993 05:00:00 GMT

	A friend of mine is using an IBM pc clone with
Microsoft Works 2.0.  He recently acquired an HP LaserJet
I with a serial port interface which uses font cartridges.
He, however, found that Microsoft Works 2.0 does not
have an entry for LaserJet I.  His question is:

	is there a software available that allows him
to choose font within Microsoft Works 2.0?  That is if
he wants Helvetica, he will pop the helvetica cartridge
into the LaserJet I and select Helvetica font within 
Microsoft Works 2.0 and the output will be Heveltica.

	Any suggestions or advice will be deeply appreciated.
It's been 8 years since I last used an IBM pc so I thought
it would be much easier to ask for advice on the net.
Please e-mail to my address below with your replies.

	By the way, he is also looking for 1-meg bit chips.
He's got this mother board which has 9 socket columns to
make 1 x 9 (1 meg parity memory) and it takes each one
of the 1-meg bit chip individually.  If anyone knows of
a good source, please let me know.  I am so spoiled by
the SIMM chips that I am at a loss of telling him where
to find additional memory.

	thanks in advance for your help.

	Best regards,

	Benson M. Wu
	bmwu@athena.mit.edu



Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: warren@wam.umd.edu (the stupid one)
Subject: Re: How to Erase a Floppy without Computer (was: Pizza Hut erases diskettes)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:57:15 GMT

thus spake bern@Uni-Trier.DE (Jochen Bern):
>Alternating magnetic Fields: This gets more dangerous. Alternating Fields
>   are able to penetrate through Materials which might filter out static
>   Fields. See below.
>
>Mailing Floppies: Since there are other Dangers to a Floppy when it gets
>   sent by Mail, it is probably wrapped into several Layers of whatever
>   Material. This is good enough to ward off static Fields, I think; Those
>   famous two Subwoofers maybe excepted. Designated Floppy Mail Enclosures
>   often include an Aluminium Plate in Order to require Arnold the Postman
>   to bend or fold them. :-) If I'm not very much mistaken, this Plate
>   might protect the Disk even if it's on the OTHER Side of the Disk
>   since Aluminium "pushs back" magnetic Fields (can somebody please
>   check this?). As mentioned by others, 3.5" are generally harder to magne-
>   tize than 5.25".


this is backwards
any conductor will provide some protection from alternating fields
it would take a suuperconductor to provide shielding from static fields
unless the container is ferromagnetic like iron
but then you run into problems with possible fields from the shielding
and ferromagnetic materials tend to be heavy
-- 
We now return you to our regularly scheduled programming,
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From: gcook@horus.cem.msu.EDU (Greg Cook|xxxxxx)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Utility to read Mac disks needed please
Date: 11 Jan 1993 13:29:28 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: horus.cem.msu.edu

From article <ashok.221.726698968@biochemistry.cwru.edu>, by ashok@biochemistry.cwru.edu (Ashok Aiyar):
> In article <C0nIAJ.23n@cs.dal.ca> holland@ug.cs.dal.ca (Shane A Holland) writes:
> 
>>   I have used a program called MAC-ETTE that reads 1.44meg Mac disks
>>on a PC with a 1.44meg drive.  It works great.  You can read the file
>>and copy them to another drive if you so wish.  I am not sure where it can
>>be FTP from at the moment, but it is out there.

It has been uploaded to Simtel but I'm not sure which directory.
I think pd1:<msdos.dskutl>  (or <msdos.filutl>).

     Gregory R. Cook         |  INTERNET:    gcook@horus.cem.msu.edu
 Department of Chemistry     |               cookgreg@student.msu.edu
Michigan State University    |  BITNET:      cook@msucem.BITNET
 East Lansing, MI  48824     |  COMPUSERVE:  74170,3010
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mhemy+@cs.cmu.edu (Michael Hemy)
Subject: Re: Zenon Computers
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 20:53:30 GMT

In article <1ihof4INNlmu@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> schottd@ucs.orst.edu (Derek Schott) writes:

   Does anyone know anything about this company and their service.
   I recently looked over one of their adds, and they have some of
   the least expensive 486 VLB systems I have ever seen. They 
   appear to be made with quality components from the adds, and their
   warranty coverage is quite good too. If anyone has dealt with 
   them, please e-mail me or post a response. (Good and bad inquires
   accepted). Thanks!


I have ordered a computer from Zenon about a month ago. Their price
was the lowest around for a VLB machine. They use good components as a
general rule but you have to make sure that the other things are also
good. 

So far their service has been O.K, yet it is not the greatest and
sometimes I feel I have to force them to take the right corrective action.
For example they sent me a mouse which was a very-low quality. They
told me they would replace it with another brand and they ended up
shipping me another-of-the-same. Now I am for a-really-another-one; 
The mid-tower case was low-quality: 
the drive bays were disabling the use of one of the ISA slots, 
the driver cable was too short and the FAN was noisy: I ended up
upgrading to the Tower case. 

Oh ya and when you call to ask if they
shipped they say "Yes" and later you find out that they didn't. But I
guess everybody is doing that.

Their tech-support is Toll-Free and that's good because sometimes it
is really dificult to understand these guys (I think they are mostly
asian), but I must say that they are trying to do their best.

I am still testing the system (486 DX2-66). I will be loading it with
OS-2 and linux in the next weeks. If people are interested in
performance issues or any other things related to that system, I will
post.


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.msdos.misc
From: jzawodn@bgsu.edu (jeremy zawodny)
Subject: Segate ST-11 Rll controller info needed...
Followup-To: jzawodn@andy.bgsu.edu
Summary: how do I format the driver under a ST-111
Keywords: rll, segate, format, controller
Organization: Bowling Green State Univ.
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 21:14:29 GMT

I recently acquired a used ST-11 RLL Hard Disk controller via 
a transaction on the net.  I am going to use it to repalce my 
dad's dead WD-1002-SRV RLL Controller.  
 
What I need to know it this:  How do I low-level format the 
                              drives using the ST-11?  With 
                              my Western Digital, I used 
                              debug, but I didn't get the manual
                              with the Segate controller.
 
Any help would be appreciated!
 
Jeremy
          



-- 
Jeremy Zawodny, Computer Nerd (student) @ Bowling Green State University

jzawodn@andy.bgsu.edu
From: 20lim@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: HELPDESK CD-ROM wanted.
Date: 8 Jan 93 11:20:27 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University

Hi,
	I found an advertisement in a Magazine a few months ago selling 
a CD-ROM for a helpdesk. Ie The CD-ROm includes all technical support 
problems and fixes for software and hardware. Yeah, you guessed it.
I've lost it.
	Does anyone know of such a company that does that? Please
post or email replies.!

  __________________________________________________________________________
 /o Christopher Lim             "SiGNaTuRe FiLeS aRe aGaiNST MY ReLiGioN  o/@
|o Western Michigan University   ReLiGioNS aRe aGaiNST MY SiGNaTuRe FiLe"o|
|o X90LIM3@GW.WMICH.EDU          pc   FLAMES > NUL                       o|
|o LIM@BOOMER.CC.WMICH.EDU       unix flames > /dev/nul                  o|
|o                               mac  _sorry_you_can't_do_that           o|
 \_________________________________________________________________________\@
From: cbas86@ccsun.strath.ac.uk ("M.Garner")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Divide Overflow - ???
Date: 8 Jan 93 13:44:24 GMT
Organization: University of Strathclyde


Hi

I'm looking for help.

We have two Amstrad PC`s, a 3286 and a 3386sx which have developed a curious 
fault.  On booting they intermittantly come up with a "divide overflow" and then
hang up.  This occurs after the config.sys has been read, but before the
autoexec.bat has executed.  The machine can be rebooted using CRTL-ALT-DEL, but
it takes several reboots before the machine runs normally.

I have tried booting from floppy, empty config.sys and autoexec.bat files,
removing expansion cards, but nothing seems to work.  Incidentally, both machines
are about 18 months old (and I'm not responsible for buying them).


Has anyone any ideas as to what is wrong, and how it can be corrected


Cheers



Mark Garner.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM
Subject: PKZip > 1.1:  Why bother?!?!
Organization: Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc.
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 93 10:09:41 PST

   I've been reading about the problems and rumors surrounding PKZip 2.04 and
PKZip 3.05.  Some say they have viruses, some have said there is a trojan in
it, and so on.  My question is this:

   I've had PK 1.1 for two years now.  There have been no problems with it.
Why, in light of all problems and rumors flying around, would anyone consider
abandoning the old and trusty version for one which may be bad?  Even if the
new versions were clean, the peace of mind I'd lose while running it wouldbe
rather significant.

   What wonderful new advances are in the newer versions (1.93, 2.04, 3.05)
of PKZip?  Better compression, perhaps?  How much better?  Or is it just a
desire to have the "latest release" regardless of its impact (or potential
impact)?

   I'm confused.


Tim Irvin
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From: gwc@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Greg F Walz Chojnacki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Disappearing UMB's, get this.
Date: 12 Jan 1993 15:46:23 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Reply-To: gwc@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4
Originator: gwc@csd4.csd.uwm.edu

> Man, I feel bad for you MSDOS users.. having to worry about EMS this, XMS that,
> Us Amiga and Mac users only have to worry about one thing.. "Lessee.. how much
> free ram do I have left to work with?"

Fine. You can go now.

Greg

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: khor@bnr.ca (Kyle Hor)
Subject: Re: Utility to read Mac disks needed please
Reply-To: khor@bnr.ca
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 16:36:10 GMT

In article <ashok.205.726457905@biochemistry.cwru.edu>, ashok@biochemistry.cwru.edu (Ashok Aiyar) writes:
|> In article <1iiltiINNnuq@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> gcook@horus.cem.msu.EDU (Greg Cook|xxxxxx) writes:
|> 
|> >Shareware?  If you find it let the rest of us know.  I only know of a
|> >commercial program called (I think) MACINDOS and it does a good job
|> >but only reads high density disks.  Your best bet is to do your file
|> >transfers on the Mac with apple file exchange.  I don't know how to use
|> >this, sorry.
|> 
|> I picked up a file called Macette.exe from sumex-aim.stanford.edu -- yes, it 
|> is a PC program!! :-)
|> 
|> Macette.exe reads and writes HD Mac disks in a PC HD drive.  It is shareware 
|> -- there is a shareware screen that comes up.
|> 
I 've got MACETTE.  It is easy to use but can only READ to pc.  Are you sure
your's can write to a MacFloppy.  Please confirm.

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. Kyle Hor                    .    /       / _   .  Email  khor@bnr.ca     .
. Bell-Northern Research Ltd. .   /__\  / / /_\  .  Phone  (613) 763-2488  .
. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada     .  / \  \/ /  \__  .  ESN          393-2488  .
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.............  searching forever, for the perfect solution  ................
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From: kraai4712@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: New IBM PS/2 40sx Feature
Date: 6 Jan 93 08:33:51 -0600
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

Hi netters!  Last night I was working on somebody's machine and rebooted it. 
It started up fine, but when I tried to insert a diskette into the A: drive, I
found that there was a diskette already there.

Naturally I assumed that it had some sort of boot-through software on it, but
found that not only was it a newly formatted diskette, but the PC would boot
with _any_ 3 1/2" diskette in the drive.

Stats:  IBM PS/2 40sx w/ 80M hard drive, 1.44M floppy

Upon bootup the PC would try to read the diskette three times and then go ahead
and boot from the hard drive.  I looked through my technical specs on this
machine and other PS/2s but could find no reference to this behavior.  Could
someone point me to where this is documented.  Thanks all.

jim
From: ah157@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Rob Henry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: BIOS custom cingiguration program?
Date: 4 Jan 1993 14:18:48 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: ah157@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Rob Henry)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc4.ins.cwru.edu



That should be configuration.
Is ther a program that will let me custom design my own hard drive
specs such as size,cylinders,etc.
I have a 40 me g drive and my bios just goes to 32.
leave mail.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
From: boie@prince.DKRZ-Hamburg.DE (Markus Boie)
Subject: screen capture advice needed
Organization: Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum GmbH, Hamburg
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 17:13:18 GMT

I need to do some text mode screen captures for use in the documentation of a
programm I wrote. Now I've changed the VGA fonts (like PC-Tools does)
and so all I get when using PrintScreen is garbage.

Does anyone know of a program which does what I want? Any hints welcome!

regards,

  Markus
Newsgroups: udel.wordperfect.users,udel.general,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: william@bach.udel.edu (Wild William)
Subject: Printing to hp series 2 from wp51.
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 17:18:44 GMT

My dad is trying to print envelopes from wp51 using a hp series 2
(laserjet).  Seems he can't get the landscape fonts to come to life.

he only gets blank pages.

Has anyone had a similar problem?

-- 
         
William York
william@chopin.udel.edu
(302) 453 8147