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From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Subject: Re: how to build your own PC?
Reply-To: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 05:12:53 GMT

In article <1992Jul21.014038.39504@datamark.co.nz> tfarmer@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Farmer) writes:
>In article <1992Jul20.131330.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu> ptalmadge@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
>>Does anybody out there know of any books or articles that explain how to go
>>about building one's own PC (say a 486 based PC).  Also, I would like to know
>>where to find (buy) the necessary hardware.  Please respond via e-mail if you
>>can help.  Thanks,

Check out your local library for books by Winn Rosch, and for books about
"Building" and "Upgrading" PCs.  I thing there is one called "Build your own
386" or something similar.  Look in computer shopper magazine for parts.

>First find a beach with lots of silicon... :-)
>
>Seriously, what do you want to do?
>
>Buying a motherboard and plugging cards into it is generally pretty
>trivial. I found it harder to set the time on my video recorder. Speak
>to your local supplier of computer bits.
>
>Actually designing circuit boards and the like is pretty tricky. I
>think Byte magazine had an article about building your own PC using an
>'AT on a chip' chipset. I imagine that there are more recent versions
>of this around too.

Anyone know which issue?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: jdg@devine.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM (Jim Griggers)
Subject: Teac floppy help needed
Originator: jdg@devine.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM
Organization: none
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 21:38:27 GMT

I need information on a 5 1/4" Teac floppy disk drive, model FD-55F-31-U.

  1. Can this drive be used on a standard PC floppy interface?

  2. Can someone tell me what the following straps do:
     UR, ML, IU, HL, SM, UO(U0?), UI(U1?), RE, PM

When connected and accessed, the floppy spins, the activity light comes on,
but the disk cannot be read.  I am assuming that something is strapped
incorrectly.

Any help would be appreciated,

-jim griggers   jdg@devine.columbiasc.ncr.com

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: guentbru@hercules.cs.uregina.ca (Bruce Guenter)
Subject: Parallel / printer port I/O
Summary: How's the best way to do it?
Reply-To: guentbru@hercules.uregina.ca (Bruce Guenter)
Organization: University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 20:44:35 GMT

Hi.  I recently built myself one of them modified parallel cables (with
5 lines switched) like the ones LapLink3 uses.  What I want to know is
what I need to know about actually sending data through these things
(a null modem cable is so much simpler, but... :-).  Is polled or
interrupt I/O preferable?

I would prefer e-mail, and I will post a summary for those interested,
but I do read this area frequently.

Thanks
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From: chk@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Christian Kuhtz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: HELP! Windows/DOS keyboard problem...
Date: 26 Jul 92 22:22:25 GMT
Organization: Point of Presence Hamburg

Hello,

you should check the Advanced Settings - of course you should search them
in the setup of the pif-file you have to create (tm.pif or dosprmpt.pif) -
and disable there the thrupass of the disired keys. 

Ciao,
   Christian
Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:20678 comp.os.os2.misc:26035
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Can I mix 70ns SIMMS with 80ns SIMMS
Date: 30 Jul 92 17:34:16 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <veit.712407248@du9ds3> veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de writes:
>
>Conclusion: look into your motherboard's manual. If it accepts a configuration
>with 4 Megabyte SIMMs/SIPs (not 4 x 1MByte in a bank, but 16 MByte in a bank),
>then you are safe to use 3-chip sets. Otherwise use 9-chip sets.

Sounds great, but I'm a disproof by counterexample.  My motherboard
will not accept 4MB SIMMs, but I've one bank of 9-chip (80 ns) and one
bank of 3-chip (70ns) 1MB SIMMs.

I think my system violates every guideline there is regarding memory,
but it handles OS/2 2.0 with no problems.

My motherboard is a Supercom 80386/25 (no cache) board, for anyone who
cares.

Mind you, I'd still recommend that people stick with 9-chip SIMMs for
their own systems.  Just because I'm incredibly lucky doesn't mean
that everyone else is.

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From: kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann)
Subject: Re: Phoenix BIOS, Mylex, and OS/2 2.0
Organization: Zeos International, Ltd. 
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 12:53:36 GMT

In article <1992Jul30.204100.25594@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu> frigo@psl.wisc.edu writes:
>I am having a hell of a time getting a DOS program (Current Contents 1.3.3)
>to work.  The program  calls PKUNZIP to decompress files on disk in A:
>(1.44 MB TEAC) but tries to access both drives, then sometimes thinks its
>getting something from A:, then gives an error when trying to get the rest
>of the data set from a 2nd floppy disk.
>
>Also, I sometimes get the error in the Workplace Shell that drive A: can't
>find the sector requested when opening the drive just to view the contents.
>
>I swapped the floppy drive controller board with another but no improvement.
>
>Here's the system configuration:
>
>Mylex MXA-386 system board
>16 MB RAM
>Phoenix v. 1.10.10 BIOS (1989)
>Conner CP3204 HDD
>FDD A: Teac
>FDD B: Teac 1.2 MB
>TD (generic) IDE board / FDD controller
>ATI Graphics Vantage 1 MB
>
>I did get the Mylex v. 6.09 BIOS, but haven't installed it.
>
>(1)	Have you used the Mylex board / Phoenix BIOS successfully with os/2
>	2.0?

Yes, Many of our customers are running OS/2, Unix, and Xenix. Phoenix 1.10.10
and Mylex BIOS 6.09. I believe there is a higher rev available for the 
MXA than 6.09. You may want to check with Mylex on this. 



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: tvilla@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Tim Villa)
Subject: Re: BGI and Trident SVGA
Organization: University of Western Australia
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 07:27:10 GMT

gehrke@scoop.ims.uni-hannover.dbp.de (Winfried Gehrke) writes:

>There are several BGI (Borland Graphics Interface) drivers on 
>ftp sites.
>But they don't work with my 'Trident 8900 C' VGA card in 
>SVGA-modes (e.g. 1024*768,16).

I've always found Borland's drivers to be a bit of a pain even though
I love their compilers more than life itself. What it comes down to is
that you need a different BGI for every video card (CGA/Herc/VGA etc)
and sometimes even for different video modes. For example, I have a
Trident 9000 512K card which supports up to 800x600x256. Needless to
say you can get 320x200x256 which is what most crappy games use now.
The VGA BGI I use will only give you 16 colors-to use 256 you need the
VGA256.BGI driver. I expect the same goes for your super VGA. Bear it
in mind also that lots of apps won't work very well with SVGA yet.

Tim Villa
villa_t@kultarr.cs.uwa.edu.au
tvilla@tartarus.uwa.edu.au
From: rvuori@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Rasmus Vuori)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: DOS 5 problems1
Date: 22 Jul 92 10:43:46 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

In <1992Jul22.073857.22204@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> tvilla@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Tim Villa) writes:

>jagged@wkuvx1.bitnet writes:

>>I am trying to install dos 5.0 on my zenith 286/8mhz machine. I copied
>>the command.com, config.sys, and autoexec.bat from dos 5 and put them
>>in my root directory. I then set the path in the autoexec to the dos 5
>> directory but when I boot it gives me the
>>incorrect dos version error. What am I overlooking?

You are simply forgetting to install the new system  :)

Boot from your DOS-5 floppy, then write SYS C: and copy the command.com
to the C:-root, rename the autoexec.bat and config.sys to something
else, and boot again from C: this time.

The SYS C: command copies the system files from the floppy to the
harddisk (they are hidden files)

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
From: bmeranda@uceng.UC.EDU (Brent E Meranda)
Subject: DMA I/O ports for HP486/50U
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: DMA ports
Organization: College of Engineering, University of Cincinnati
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 18:51:33 GMT


I need a list of I/O port usage for a HP Vectra 486/50U.  Specifically,
I need to know what parts are used to program the DMA Page numbers.  I
assume that since this PC can access more than 32 MB of memory, there
needs to be a high byte PAGE SELECT register.

The specifics of my problem are I need to install a ISA Data Translation
data acquisition board in this EISA bus computer.  The DMA initialization
appears to work and the board thinks it is transfering data, but the data
does not end up in the correct area of memory.

As far as I can tell, I have correctly configured the EISA setup for 
the correct DMA and Port resource usage of the board.

There may be a completely different cause for the problem I am seeing,
but I am approaching a deadline and running out of ideas.

Any ideas or suggestions are welcome.
My email address is bmeranda@uceng.uc.edu

p.s.  Thanks to everyone who responded to my 52 MB memory access problem.
      Everything is working fine except EMM386.EXE hangs when I try to
      load anything high.  QEMM386 works fine though.
From: anwar+@cs.cmu.edu (Anwar Mohammed)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Bernoulli 90 MB Transportable + Cartridges for Sale
Date: 29 Jul 92 06:07:24 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon


I am selling a Bernoulli 90 MB Transportable cartridge drive + three cartridges.
The drive is about 6 months old.  

The Iomega Bernoulli cartridge drive is both faster and far more reliable than 
Syquest-based drives.  I've had it for 6 months, *I haven't experience
a single failure*.  The drive is a SCSI drive (built in terminator), but Iomega 
sells adaptors for PC parallel ports(*).  This is an extremely versatile drive.  
Each cartridge is large enough to hold a lot of archived information and the
fast access time makes it a painless drive to work off of.  The drive also comes 
with a built-in handle (for easy transporation) and a side stand.  The
drive head has a built-in cleaning system and all you need to replace is the 
air filter once in a while.  The cartridges last for 5 years at 40 hrs a week 
(MTBF is 60,000 hours), I've only used them somewhat sparsely for 6 months 
(<10 hrs a week).   The cartridges can withstand 1000g's of force.

This is really a great drive, IMHO.  I used this drive off a NeXTstation and it 
worked like a charm.

Right now, it retails for $700-800.  I am including 3 90 MB cartridges which retail
for around $150 each.

I'd like $850 for the package, but I'll gladly consider reasonable offers. 
Send me e-mail (anwar@cs.cmu.edu) or call me at 1-412-421-9779.


-anwar

(*) If you're interested in this option,  I'll call Iomega and get the details.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: u009@csx.cciw.ca (G. Stewart Beal)
Subject: Re: Wanted:  Hard drive <-> Parallel port board or information
Organization: Canada Centre for Inland Waters
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 15:02:56 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.020923.9478@julian.uwo.ca> magundi@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (john macdonald) writes:
>
>I have just bought a laptop and would like to get a Hard drive to
>run off of the parallel port.  I would prefer to get something
>that will run SCSI because I hope to get a SyQuest eventually.
>
They do exist: I saw one in Computer City in Buffalo. It was a SCSI
adapter, and I briefly thought about buying it to use my CD on a laptop.
I didn't (at my wife's REQUEST!). Anyway the price was around $100 I think
but I don't remember the make. You can call them to find out, however.
From: miles@aurs01.UUCP (Robert Miles)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Subdivide this group (C.S.I.P.H)?
Date: 27 Jul 92 03:21:27 GMT
Reply-To: miles@aurw7a.aur.alcatel.com (Robert Miles)
Organization: Alcatel Network Systems, Raleigh NC

In article <0095E1C9.DD8BF1E0@vms.csd.mu.edu> 5916rahmank@vms.csd.mu.edu writes:
>In article <1992Jul24.181331.3246@coli.uni-sb.de>, chbl@sbustd.rz.uni-sb.de (Christian Blum) writes:
>|>I agree. It's a pleague to find the articles you are interested in if there
>|>are some hundreds to choose from...
>|>Other subgroup suggestions: serial, BIOS
>|>
>|>Chris.
>
>I also vote 'yes'. This group may be divided into:
>
>1.	Drives (HD, FD, etc.)
>
>2.	Memory (RAM, Cache, etc.)
>
>3.	Processor (386, 486, P5, etc. including bus type)
>
>4.	Interface (HD controller, Video controller, etc.)

I suggest leaving Interface off the list, and adding Communications
and Graphics instead.  I believe that Interface would attract heavy
crossposting due to the frequent occasions on which it is not clear
whether a problem is due to a device or its interface, especially for
the less experienced users.

4a.	Communications (serial ports, modems)

4b.	Graphics (video, joysticks, trackballs)

>5.	Sound	(audio related matters)
>
>Any more?...
>		Anis Rahman
>		EECE, Marquette University.

6.	Motherboard (motherboards and BIOS)

7.	Purchasing (buying a complete system)

8.	Printers (printers and parallel ports)

9.	Miscellaneous (for anything that doesn't fit elsewhere - an
		essential category in a good split)

By the way, aren't discussions on new newsgroups supposed to take
place in group news.groups, according to the rules?  I would prefer
having it crossposted to csiph, though, since our site doesn't
subscribe to the news.* hierarchy and doesn't have enough spare
disk or modem capacity to consider adding any more hierarchies.

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From: pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: AMD 386: COMPATIBLE W INTEL CHIP?
Date: 30 Jul 92 22:22:38 GMT
Reply-To: pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi)
Organization: Coleg Prifysgol Cymru


In article <1992Jul22.163517.17632@lgc.com>, mcm@zycor.lgc.com () writes:

mcm> I would like to buy an AMD 386 computer.  I am concerned about
mcm> whether the chip Advanced Micro Devices uses in this machine is
mcm> compatible with the Intel chip.

Various model sof Intel chips are far less compatible with each other
than with the AMD chip. Don't be worried.

mcm> I want to write software which will run on any IBM or clone.

This is an amazing goal. I doubt very much you can achieve it. Just
consider the enormous variety of video cards. Just consider the variety
of DOS versions. Just consider the variety of buses.

mcm> Would programming (in Turbo C) on an AMD be completely portable in
mcm> the PC world (from 286 on up)?

The answer in short is *NO*. There is no way to ensure complete
portability in the PC world, but for the most trivial of program.

On the other hand the people who have written the Tubo C compiler and
libraries have already tried to make them as portable as possible.

So unless you inadvertently code in your program bugs or features that
depend on the specific configuration of you development machine (of
which the CPU brand is the least of your worries), you do careful
defensive programming, and so on, then using Turbo C for your program
will give you as much portability as possible.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: 42_153@uwovax.uwo.ca
Subject: Packard Bell/IBM 5250 Problem
Organization: University of Western Ont, London
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 20:52:51 GMT

	I wondering if anyone has heard of any problems using IBM 5250 Emulator
boards in Packard Bell systems. I'm having a problem with a Packard Bell 25 MHz
386SX system and a 5250 card connected to an IBM AS400. When I boot the system, 
and load the emulator board software, I get a 'Address in Use' error. If I boot
the system, and press CTRL-ALT-MINUS(-) to take it out of turbo mode, I get the
system Login: prompt. I hard wired the system into non-turbo mode, and I end up
with the 'Address in Use' error. The problem stays exactly the same for a 16
MHz version of the motherboard, and I've already tried replacing the 5250
board. Any ideas? (E-Mail replies only, please...) 
                         	        
Jim Griffiths				42_153@hydra.uwo.ca
CCS Hardware Services			(519)661-3027
University of Western Ontario		London, Ontario

Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:20655 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:11002 misc.forsale.computers:28200
From: fr@compu.com (Fred Rump from home)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,misc.forsale.computers
Subject: Re: Cyrix Math Coprocessors
Date: 29 Jul 92 14:44:05 GMT
Organization: CompuData Inc.

hhtne@usho52.hou281.chevron.com (H.T.Nettles) writes:

>PC Week, July 27,1992, page 121, ad for ELKCO (1-800-243-5526),

>   CYRIX
>    83D87-40  $108

I just bought mine in that neighborhood and it flys. It was marked $219. 
Obviously there has been some dramatic price changing going on.

Fred
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: nolan@tssi.com (Michael Nolan)
Subject: Re: X-Rays
Reply-To: nolan@tssi.com
Organization: Tailored Software Services, Inc.
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 20:55:32 GMT

chbl@sbustd.rz.uni-sb.de (Christian Blum) writes:

>Ahemm... x-ray photons are -like all other photons- electrically neutral.
>So they won't create a magnetic field when shot thru your equipment, and
>won't damage your disks.

Except that the collision of x-rays with atoms may dislodge electrons, which
*are* electrically charged.  (It's been a LONG time since I was an EE major,
so I looked this up in Encyclopaedia Britannica.)

However, I'm of the unverified opinion that damage is more likely to be
caused by the magnetic fields of the conveyor or other equipment in the
airport scanners.

In any event, ask yourself this:  Is this data worth protecting?  If so,
then you should take whatever steps the airports will allow you in protecting
potentially eraseable magnetic media.  (When I flew through Atlanta recently,
I had them hand-check my notebook computer and they asked me to remove any
diskettes before they would put the carrying case through the x-ray machine.
Incidentally, it seemed like 20% of the passengers were carrying a portable
computer.)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: hastings@unislc.uucp (Clint Hastings)
Subject: Another 16550 question
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 14:07:40 GMT

I finally looked at my multi-IO card, and on it are 2 unsocketed chips
labeled Goldstar 16450. The chips are rather large and have 40 pins.
Can I remove them and replace them with the 16550AFN? Is that all
there is to it hardware-wise, besides letting Windows and any comm 
programs know about it?
From: gtj@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Glenn T Jayaputera)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: My PC needs to be 'warmed up', what's happening?
Date: 28 Jul 92 06:50:05 GMT
Organization: RMIT Department of Computer Science

Hi...I am having a problem with my 386-sx lately.

Everytime I turn it on after being off for more than 6 hours, it hangs.
I have to wait for 15-20 minutes (warming up), then I can reset and it can
boot up from there perfectly.

Is this the sign of 'dying' power suply? SHould I fix it or better buy
the new one.

thanks in advance
Glenn Jayaputera
From: "kenneth tam" <kenneth.tam@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: mag 17 vs nanao f550i
Date: 29 Jul 92 20:27:44 EST
Reply-To: "kenneth tam" <kenneth.tam@canrem.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Canada Remote Systems

I'm about a week from picking up a 17" monitor to grace my desktop, and
the choice has narrowed down to 2.

MAG MX17H       vs      Nanao F550i.

Advantages of the MAG: lower dot pitch (.26 vs .28), $100 less, LCD
readout with resolution and scan rates, greater video bandwidth (120 MHz
vs 80), greater horizontal and vertical scanning ranges.

Advantages of the Nanao: MPR II compliant, more digital controls
(including pincushioning and barrel distortion, notably missing on the
MAG), higher refresh @ 1024x768 (75 Hz vs 70), color matching. Damn good
rep.

Spec-wise, the MAG seems to win.  I'd like to compare subjectively, but
I can't sit the two monitors side-by-side (not the same store..).

The MAG seems to have a lot more scanning range and bandwidth, yet it
can't do 1024x768 at a better refresh.  Can someone explain?  Does the
higher range/bandwidth really mean anything?  Both monitors do 1280x1024
@ 60 Hz.

I'd really like to hear from those who have experienced both monitors
(at the same time would be even better ;).  Owners of these monitors,
what are your impressions?  Did you consider the other one?

Thanks for any info..

kenneth.tam@canrem.com
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From: cjmarsha@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Charles Marshall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Advice needed on Colorado Tape drive.
Date: 25 Jul 92 23:17:30 GMT
Organization: Colorado School of Mines

katuulos@polaris.utu.fi (Kalle T. Tuulos) writes:
:   However, if you're going to use that tape drive heavy, don't buy Colorado.
: It seems to be quite old-fashioned with it's technics and I don't believe
: it will last long in heavy use. (I can't explain why, my vocabulary is not
: big enough...)
:

As for heavy usage:  I've been using a CMS tape drive 5 days a week, at
least 1 hour a day for the last 11 months without any problems.  It's not
the fastest system, nor the biggest.  But for the price, it's great.

Charles
 
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