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From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Floppy size in 1200?
Date: Mon,  9 Nov 92 21:58:50 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1992Nov3.185053.44366@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <36692@cbmvax.commodore.com>
  <1992Nov5.183914.24556@oracle.us.oracle.com>
  <1992Nov5.223909.15636@hubcap.clemson.edu>

>dnavas@oracle.uucp (David Navas) writes:
>
>>In article <36692@cbmvax.commodore.com> grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robb
i
>ns) writes:
>
>>       Limited upgrade path from A500
>>                       (competition, Amiga)
>
>Someone's going to buy a new 500 over a 1200?  Not likely.  Besides, you
>can't take your 500 peripherals, for the most part, to any other Amiga
>model.  (Unless you want to use your RAM chips, if they're the right sort.)
>And face it, you'd bottleneck the heck out of your shiny new 020 if you put
>a 500 RAM card on it!

Oops.  That's probably proving HIS point, not yours.  Maybe he believes the
1200 should be able to use some of those otherwise useless 500 add-ons.

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From: Roger_Nordin@atb.bbs.bad.se (Roger Nordin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Moving 500 to 1200, BAD NEWS
Date: Wed,  4 Nov 92 19:43:56 +0000
Reply-To: Roger_Nordin@atb.bbs.bad.se (Roger Nordin)
Distribution: world
Organization: ANet Test Bench, Karlstad, Sweden 
OD-Comment-To: Internet_Gateway

> > and Amiga use 1 Meg x 8.  Have a little patience with a new product and
> 
> Thats because C= assume all memory is infallible :-(

Yes, isn't it? My A3000 has 83886080 bits of memory, and so far, not a single 
one of them has ever failed. Not ever.

Parity checking is a thing from the pre-historic when DRAMs were unreliable. 
Just like MS-DOG (yes, both pre-historic and unreliable :)).

                        _       .    __
    Roger Nordin     _ //      /!Net /est Bench
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From: ross@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ross Hippely - Manuals)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A1200 specs and HD floppy infor wanted
Summary: Try ordering HD drives
Keywords: hd drive floppy
Date: 5 Nov 92 19:27:23 GMT
Reply-To: ross@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ross Hippely - Manuals)
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Distribution: na
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <36694@cbmvax.commodore.com> grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
>In article <1992Nov4.231023.1@fnalo.fnal.gov> traynor@fnalo.fnal.gov writes:
>> Will someone please e-mail me the specs on the Amiga 1200?  I have asked
>> before without a reply.
>> 
>> Also, can someone definitively state whether there is a chance of my 
>> obtainaing an external HD floppy for my 500, or should I just give up and
>> by a standard 880K floppy?
>
>As far as I know, there are no immediate plans to release an external
>high-density floppy.  When the drive itself becomes available as a
>service part, it wouldn't be too hard kludge it into external form,
>but then service parts tend to be $$$.

At a user group meeting in this area last night, an Amiga dealer said that
he had just received ordering information for the high-density floppy
drives.  I.e., one can presumably now order the drives (same as the one
in the A4000 and some lucky A3000s) as a normal item.  I am quite sure
this meant the bare drive, not an external model.

There were two US Commodore Marketing/Sales reps (yes, they do exist!) in
the room at the time this statement was made, so I believe this to be fairly
reliable information.  However, I make no guarantees that YOUR local C=
dealer has the same info now, nor do I know what the model or part number
of the drive to ask for is.  Of course, this would be valid only for the 
US.  Inquire.

>George Robbins - now working for,     work:   to be avoided at all costs...
>but no way officially representing:   uucp:   {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
>Commodore, Engineering Department     domain: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com

Disclaimer emphasis: I am reporting what I heard.  Statements of actual
product availability come from a different source.

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From: al158305@academ01.mty.itesm.mx (Gustavo Cordova Avila)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: New CSA '30 accel for 500, 2000?
Date: 5 Nov 92 17:26:28 GMT

bartosz@milton.u.washington.edu (Bartosz Kijanka) writes:

>Ok, now, apparently there is just *1* slot for a SIMM on the Derringer.
>This leads me to ask; what is the largest 32bit SIMM available?
>(The largest I've seen advertised was 4 Meg)

>bartosz@u.washington.edu

   Well, the largest I've seen is 16 and 32 Mb, yup, single simm. I think
they were for Mac (16Mb ones) and for SparcStations (16 & 32Mb ones), so 
you *can* have 32 Mb on your derringer.
   Now, if only CSA (or someone else) would make a little board to use
simms instead of chips for MMR memory expansion. *sigh* Simms are much
more flexible, and findable in almost any speed. Any takers??

-Gus
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: olavka@ifi.uio.no (Olav Lur}s Kalgraf)
Subject: Re: A1200, a few questions
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 09:01:48 GMT
Originator: olavka@sognsvann.ifi.uio.no


In article <1992Nov4.110300.25747@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, sallen@nyx.cs.du.edu (Steve Allen) writes:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Just afew things that I have wbeen wondering about
> 
> 1. So the disk drive is old 880K, not good news.  As I have had a play
> with the new ma hine, I can state that the Workbench floppies are
> all 880K, so it looks unlikely that there is a High Density drive
> lurking there.

The workbench disks on my A4000 were 880k also, do I have to say more?
Try reading some HD PC disks or something like that.

> 
> 2. Monitors. With your old CBM monitor (1084) etc you do not get 
> any new graphics modes above ECS. Except for the increase in colour.
> There is now way of getting more than 512 lines deep (pal).
> Also the flicker is as bad as ever.   So add to the cost a multisync
> monitor.

Once you've paid for that multisync monitor you will discover that
it was the buy of a lifetime. Productivity workbench rules!!

> 
> 3. Memory .  Is there any space to put SIMMS on the Motherboard, or 
> have I got to buy a new trapdoor expaNSION.
> 
> I now have Aibb v5 so I shall test the A1200 with this, for comparison
> with my earlier tests with SYSinfo..  No chanche of fast ram yet, sorry.
> 
> Ant.
> 
> pm3ah@sunc.sheffield.ac.uk  (please not to above e-mail)
> 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: dvarana@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dan Varana)
Subject: Problems with 1 meg hack (anybody)
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 06:41:45 GMT

Hiya to all those who mutilated their trusty 500,
	I performed that hack and...it worked.  However, I think I have
trouble with my GrandSlam SCSI card.  At this momement, I have no drive
attached to the interface ( heinous story ), but I would like to access the
ram ( sort of like a game switch ).  In the past ( months ) I just disabled
the +5v and allowed the ram to be powered via +12v.  This worked fine. 
However now that I am driveless and performed tha hack, I
can not duplicate the same situation.  The main point is did anybody have
any similar problems with their hack?  If so please mail me your thoughts
and/or solutions.  By the way, I did boot first and then disabled the
drive and the card works fine ( I tested it on a 2000 ). Thanks in advance.
I suppose it the drive thing...
								-Dan
From: jbono@tension.UUCP (John Bono)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Networking?  WHY?!?
Date: 9 Nov 92 23:09:35 EST
Organization: High Tension BBS

 
I've seen a few posts up here about how the Amiga doesn't have "built-in"
networking, and it seems to me that adding networking as a standard feature
would be a tremendous waste of time.  Virtually *no* clones have any networking
"built in."  They all are rather expensive aftermarket options, especially in
light of the software cost.  Macs have appletalk networking, but compared to
Token-Ring or Ethernet based Networks, apple talk sucks rocks, and is not very
useful in large environments with heavy network traffic.  The only thing I
would like to see out of C= is a network.device, and a network.library as an
OPTIONAL feature to the OS, which would include standard drivers for Novell,
TCP/IP, Vines, Lantastic, as well as some sort of server capability.  The Amiga
does have a multitasking OS after all, and the bus is definitely faster than
the majority of the "servers" advanced by the clone community.  Spending
gazillions of dollars trying to get 500s, 600s, and 1200s networking is a waste
of money, as noone I know would want a low end machine like that as a
workstation or server.  HOWEVER, an A2000/3000/4000 based network is a
different story, because those machines are far more likely to be used in a
productivity environment.
 
John
From: boing@mcl.ucsb.edu (Geff Hanoian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: NO A3000 Power Light!!!
Keywords: Dead Light
Date: 12 Nov 92 03:45:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: mcl.boing.721539933

In <guido.721471115@pv0a27.vincent.iastate.edu> guido@iastate.edu (BP Walenz) writes:

>Here's the sceneraio.  I was working on a small C program, it compiled, so
>I executed it.  The power light died, the machine DID NOT lock up or crash.
>(And, no, the program was not supposed to do this.)  So, I reboot.  The light
>is still off.  So, I kill the power, wait a couple of minutes, power on again,
>and (guess what) NO light.

>Everything else appears to be working fine.  Ideas??

>bri
>-- 
>	     Brian P. Walenz      Computer Engineering|Science
>	     guido@iastate.edu    Ames, IA       (515)296-5326
>	     "EE's do it with power, CprE's do it with LOGIC."

	Is it outta the questoin to dsay that your LED died?

	boing
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From: vexar@watserv.ucr.edu (Joe C Solinsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Mega-Midget Racer info (problem solved)
Date: 11 Nov 92 22:14:42 GMT

Hello,
	I posted about a problem I was having with my CSA daughterboard, and I  
think I figured out what is the problem.  I have been using the ARP command  
library in conjunction with RSL Clock +, which are PD replacements that are to  
be installed on a Workbench disk.  Well, they hate the MMR.  I get crashes that  
have a number like 81000009._____ from the GURU.  When I don't use them, these  
problems do not exist.  Hmm.  That sounds like a decent solution, right?  Well,  
it worked for me, and I am happy now.  Other things that do not work with the  
MMR are ALL PSYGNOSIS GAMES, but I don't mean to pick on any one company in  
particular.  Ask me why they don't work:  I have BOUGHT almost every one of  
them.  Imagine my dissapointment.  Don't worry none about that-- I have a young  
Amiga friend who is too much into games.  He will be happy to buy them.  Since  
I kinda want to do better things than play games with my Amiga, contacting  
Psygnosis (or was it Psyclapse?) seems like an infortuitous suggestion.
	Thanks to the two guys off this group, CSA, and SupraRam (who have  
awesome hold music, BTW) for the help.  I hope this saves other people from too  
much strife and LD calls.
-Joe Solinsky
Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga.hardware:19336 comp.sys.amiga.misc:16592
From: f92anha@fy.chalmers.se (Anders Hammarqvist)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: US -> UK amigas.
Date: 10 Nov 92 23:08:00 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology

In article <6296@pdxgate.UUCP> idr@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (Ian D Romanick) writes:
>>Using a 120/240 autotransformer to feed your Amiga with the right voltage
>>will still leave its PSU with a frequency it wasn't designed for. Usually that
>>won't matter, but if that PSU has a transformer which is running close to its
>>limits, and you then feed it with the correct voltage but at a different
>>frequency, you may just push it over the edge & cause it to eventually fail.

Since most computer PSU's are switched, the line frequency doesn't affect
it in most cases even if the transformer is close to its limits.

>But wouldn't 50Hz generate less heat than 60Hz?  So, wouldn't that make a
>US Amiga less likely to fry in the UK?

Nope, this is not true - what generates more heat simply has to do with
what frequency the transformer was designed for. As for the stuff inside
the Amiga - it's all running on DC anyway.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.periphs.printers
From: rlcarr@athena.mit.edu (Richard L. Carreiro)
Subject: Printers and AmigaDOS
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Organization: Digitopolitan Embassy to the US
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 20:12:15 GMT

Hello.

I think it's finally time for me to throw in the towel on my 10-year-old
Gemini 10-X printer, so I'm looking for something new.

As laser (and inkjet) printers are still out of my price range :(, I'm
looking for a decent 24-pin dot matric printer.  I'm considering
the Panasonic kx-p2123 and kx-p2124, and the Star Micronics NX-2430,
among others.  

As for my needs, I'd mostly be printing out program listings and other
random stuff, but do have an occasional need for good quality output
(letters, papers, etc).

The printer has to have a parallel interface, as my serial port is
constantly in use.  Also, it would have to be able to accept tractor-fed
fanfold, and it would be very nice if single-sheet friction was also
supported.

So,
(1) Any comments about these (or other 24-pin printers)?
(2) Does AmigaDOS support these printers at all?  They also have
    a 360dpi x 360dpi graphics mode.  Does AmigaDOS support this at all?
    (I have 2.04 of AmigaDOS).
(3) any other warnings, recommendations, and comments would be
    greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

--
Rich Carreiro
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BITNET: rlcarr@athena.mit.edu
From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Is a 6mb 1200 available???
Date: 5 Nov 92 07:01:04 GMT
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <1992Nov4.120216.1453@decuk.uvo.dec.com> hilton@bahtat.dec.com writes:
> 
> So I started off thinking I couldn't move my SIMMS 
> and SCSI drive to a 1200.
> 
> Thanks to all the replies, I'm now reconsidering, and
> my brother may well buy my 500 of me :^)
> 
> If I wait for the SCSI controller for a 1200, then 
> I would want to buy a fully loaded 1200 with the 32 bit 
> memory on board, ie 2mb Chip, 4mb Fast.
> 
> Is this available yet? How much?
> 
> My local dealer said they had nothing at the moment,
> but they do have a 1200 in!

At this point, nothing is available in the US and the machine has
just hit retail in the UK within the last week.  I would expect a
month or two delay before expansion slot peripherals really start
to pop up, though someone could come up with a basic memory
expansion or '030 card real quick and surprise me.

-- 
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but no way officially representing:   uucp:   {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
Commodore, Engineering Department     domain: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com
From: stb@cup.portal.com (Stan Robert Hodge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Slow Internal Hard Drive Performance on 3000/25 (40Meg) ?
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 19:34:15 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

Help...

I have a 3000/25 with 2Meg chip 4Meg SC ram.  This is one of the very early
3000's (40Meg HD [Q P40]).  It is running 2.04.

Last week I was using my friends (new) 3000/16 (50Meg [LP52]) and I ran
'SYSINFO 3.01' and did a speed test of his drive.  

This 3000/16 showed 1.1 MegBytes/sec!

Running this same test on my 3000/25 shows only 770 KBytes/sec ???

Thinking that I must have upgradded something wrong I backed up the system
and ran prod_prep from the 3000 Install (ver 2.04) disk.

Same results.

I am confused.  Is the 52Meg drive really 25% faster than the 40Meg?

Digging a bit further I found a difference in the fastfilesystem between
the two machines.  My 3000/25 has the rev 35 fastfilesystem (size 22412)
and the 3000/16 had rev 2 of the fastfilesysem (size 20??? [I don't have
the exact number in front of me].  These numbers were reported from
hdtoolbox.

If it makes any difference I still have a 1.3 partition on the drive.

Some time ago I read some talk about the mask value for the filesystem.
It was set to 0xfffffffc by prod_prep.  I changed it to 0xfffffffe but
had no difference.


What are the correct setups here... and are these the type of numbers
I should be seeing? (Commadore?? [Dave H])?


                                        Thanks
                                        Stan Hodge
                                        stb@cup.portal.com
                                        
                                       
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: brianc@iastate.edu (Brian J Cerveny)
Subject: Re: AGA monitors.
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 04:18:24 GMT

In <Bx962E.633@news.cs.andrews.edu> adap@edmund.cs.andrews.edu (Edsel Adap) writes:

>You need one of those Multisync monitors to take advantage of the new
>AGA modes.  However, not just any multisync. From what I've read, you
>need one that does 15Khz - 72 Khz monitors.  My suggestion is the C=
>1960 Monitor.  You're going to have a hard time finding a third party
>monitor that supports those scanning rates.

I'd suggest the Mitsubishi 14" Diamondscan, priced at around $450 US.
They just came out with a new model of it, still supporting the 15KHz
frequency, as well as composite video.  .28mm dot pitch insures a nice
crisp resolution, and the Diamondscan is medium persistence so flicker
is significantly reduced, and is basically absent in the Super72 800x600
mode.  (It is about like normal very slight non-interlaced PAL flicker
using the standard 2.x/3.x color scheme.)  Animation is not blurred
either, as a result of the persistence, so that's not a problem.

The 1960 has almost identical stats (.28mm dot pitch, etc.) except for
the persistence and composite video.  I'll most likely go for the 
Diamondscan though, simply because of the persistence.

-- 
   // Brian J. Cerveny (brianc@iastate.edu)
 \X/  No, I don't know Marc Barrett, so quit sending email about him!
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 - Jeff Greenfield, ABC News Nightline, October 12, 1992.
From: dlarson@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dale Larson - Product Assurance)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 68030 ACCELERATOR NEEDED!!!!!!!!!!
Date: 10 Nov 92 18:44:38 GMT
Reply-To: dlarson@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dale Larson - Product Assurance)
Organization: Commodore Engineering

In article <1992Nov10.132349.28032@cis.ohio-state.edu> juncewic@turtle.cis.ohio-state.edu (thomas michael juncewicz) writes:
>I want to have an 030-based system running at least 25-MHz.
...
>Does having 32-bit memory REALLY improve performance?

YES.

>  Should I get a 40-50 MHz model--is the speed difference noticable enough to
>warrant the extra price (I know the bus and memory will be the bottlenecks)? 

Maybe.

>Should I just spend the cash on an 040?

Probably.


-- 
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   		               | represents the policies or procedures of
			       | Commodore has more lawyers than they have 
dlarson@commodore.com          | common sense.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: didi@nixdorf.de (Dietmar Adomeit)
Subject: Printer driver for Nixdorf MD16 (Kodak Diconix)
Keywords: printer driver
Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Info.Sys. AG, Paderborn, Germany
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 07:13:00 GMT


I've got an Nixdorf MD16, that should be the same as a Kodak Diconix
Laptop printer.

It works fine in text mode with the standard Workbench driver for EpsonX,
but the Graphic output is too small.

The reason for this is, that the printer has a different density than
standard Epson printers, so horizontally 80/160 dots/inch where Epson
has 60/120 and vertically 96 to 72 by Epson.

So- who can help me with a special driver for this or can tell me, how
to patch the standard driver to the size of my printer ?


Any help greatly apreciated
	Dietmar

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