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From: druide@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de (Torsten Zirzlaff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Looking for a RAMDAC of an ET4000 graphics card
Date: 16 Dec 1992 17:28:02 GMT
Organization: ZRZ/TU-Berlin
Distribution: europe
NNTP-Posting-Host: marie.physik.tu-berlin.de
Keywords: Wher to find them in europe ?

Is there somebody out there who could tell me where I could find the following
chips or compatible ones ?
	SIERRA P/N: SC 11483
	SIERRA P/N: SC 11487
	AT&T   P/N: ATT20C491
further information or hints are welcome.
Please mail them to me, because i'm not frequently read this newsgroup.

Thanks in advance
	Torsten
--
                                                               Torsten Zirzlaff
				    Technical University Berlin
	                            Department of Physics, Germany
                                    e-mail : druide@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: dmoyer@ccscola.Columbia.NCR.COM (Dan Moyer)
Subject: Re: High pitch squeal with Speedstar 24x and NEC 4FG
Organization: NCR Corp, E&M-Columbia, Columbia, SC
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 18:00:35 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.115338.9383@zip.eecs.umich.edu> joy@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Chien-Chung Chen) writes:
>In article <76837@hydra.gatech.EDU> dsrekrg@prism.gatech.EDU (Rob Gibson) writes:
>>I am running a 24x with a 4FG and get an unnerving squeal similar and slightly
>>louder than  a TV set when using the 72 Hz refresh modes. 
>>Thisiis especially noticeable when going to a full-screen DOS session from 
>>Windows and back. 
>>Is that just the way it is with the 4FG?
>>
>>-- 
>>Rob Gibson, WREK 91.1 MHz, 40000 watts - Georgia Tech, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
>>Studio: 404/894-2468  FAX: 404/853-3066  ARPA: dsrekrg@prism.gatech.edu
>
>It's not likely that a monitor or video card makes the noise because none of
>them have speakers. However, the intermodulation of frequencies inside PC
>may cause PC's sounding devices to make noise. Two possible sources of noise
>are PC's speaker and modem.
>
>It could be the problem of modem. Disconnect the modem to see if the noise
>still exists. My PC used to sqeal before I replaced the cheap modem with
>a better one.
>
>-- Chien-Chung Chen

I disagree with Chien-Chung Chen's posting.  It most likely is the monitor
making the noise, just like a TV set.   The horizontal refresh rate on 
a standard TV is 15,750 hz, I think.   I can hear that quit well from across thre
room when a television is turned on and the sound is off.   The sound I believe
comes from the flyback coil oscillating.   Similar to the hum you can hear
at 60hz from different transformers, like in flourescent lights.
I think there are three things you can do:
1) try a different monitor
2) turn on a stereo to drown out the monitor noise
3) put on a pair of headphones.


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: pdg@samal.demon.co.uk (Paul Goffin)
Subject: Re: What is "stacker" and "shadow memory" 
Distribution: world
Organization: PS Soft
X-Mailer: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.19)
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 07:44:32 +0000

In article <downs.41.724708988@helios.nevada.edu> downs@helios.nevada.edu writes:

>shrink as much). There are several other commercial products on the market 
>that do the same thing, such as SuperStor; I've heard that DOS 6.0 will 
>include built-in compression software.

That's MS-DOS 6.0, of course.

DR-DOS 6.0 already has compression software.

(And other operating systems like WindowsNT, OS/2 2.0 and Unix
don't usually work with compression software.  Stac are
currently Beta testing a version of Stacker for OS/2 2.0 though.)

Paul
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown)
Subject: Re: "Windoze" slow? Naah...Re: pc and mac: was RE: 486 and mac benchmarks
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 16:46:42 GMT


>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.

In the latest PC Magazine there is an add for FileMaker Pro for Windows.
So Claris is already porting stuff to Windows, cause that's where
the money is.

------------
Bailey Brown                               "Above all else, confusion reigns."
Intergraph Corporation                                  
bbrown@casca.b11.ingr.com                              Procol Harum
From: nijhuis@isg.llnl.gov (Jan A. Nijhuis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: RE: DogCow, Claris & Apple Trivia, was something else (?)
Date: 15 Dec 92 19:59:19 GMT
Distribution: ca
Organization: Lawrence Laboratory  Livermore, CA

From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: DogCow - where it comes from (was: Re: "Windoze" slow? Naah...Re: pc and mac: was RE: 486 and mac benchmarks)

>By the way...

>I found out where the Dogcow comes from (download it from cica!). Go
>to any Mac and pull up the Page Setup. Click on _Options_. See the 
>DogCow? Its supposedly named "Claris" - supposedly the mascot for the 
>Mac Systems Software group.

>(DON'T followup any Mac vs. PC stuff to the comp.os.ms-windows.apps 
>group. I've set followup to confine it to where it started. This 
>one is x-posted because we were discussing DogCow a while ago).


BTW some more...
The Dog-Cow, Claris (yes that is its name) makes the sound "Moof".

The "Moof", of course, if computer folklore. As cute as Apple is with
its built in sound chip no one thought to add the sound when selecting
page orientation.

Unfortunately, someone at Apple, in their infinite wisdom, killed 
Claris in favor of an outline figure of a people to describe page
orientation.  I think this happend around release 6.0.5 of the Mac OS.


--

Jan A. Nijhuis,
nijhuis@isg.llnl.gov

Two wrongs do not make a right, but three will get you back on the freeway.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mthompso@csar.encore.com (Mark Thompson)
Subject: Re: Diamond Speedstar 24X vs. Stealth VRAM
Organization: Encore Computer Corporation
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 02:32:10 GMT

mrbill@leland.Stanford.EDU (William Bowen) writes:

>Which is the faster card, the Stealth VRAM or the Speedstar 24X? Does
>anyone have benchmarks for these cards, preferably run on the same machine?

>Thanks for any info.

>Bill

>mrbill@leland.stanford.edu

I just installed a SpeedStar 24X in my 486DX/50 MHz 256kb cache 8MB ram
system. WinBench reports 12,691,779 WinMarks in 800x600x256 mode. Sorry, I
don't have any numbers on the Stealth. Maybe someone else with a similiar
system can post them.

I really enjoy my new SpeedStar. So far, I have only found one minor bug.
While the screen is blanked by ScreenSaver, the cursor remains on screen.
No big deal, just a difference I've notice over my old Paradise WD P1D card.
This is most likely a driver bug, as when in 16 color mode this does not 
happen.

Mark
From: pflodin@etek.chalmers.se (Per Flodin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Contacting Itac Inc for Mousetrak info!
Date: 18 Dec 92 15:50:39 GMT
Reply-To: pflodin@etek.chalmers.se (Per Flodin)
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, SWEDEN

I have this problem:

I'm trying to use a MouseTrak trackball with windows but I haven't managed to do so!

I've asked for help in the Windows-groups but noone seemed to be able to help me. If you have any information, I'd appreciate it!

But even if you don't know anything about this you might be able to help me! I'd like to know the E-mail address to those who designed this trackball, namely 

Itac Systems Inc, Garland, Texas, 75042 USA

Perhaps they can help me!

Thanks in advance!

     - Per Flodin
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: kepley@cs.unca.edu (Brad Kepley)
Subject: Re: combining a SCSi and MFM HD
Organization: University of North Carolina at Asheville
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 23:05:44 GMT

re Using SCSI and MFM drives...
I'm not sure about that "8 bit SCSI controller" but you should just 
install the MFM as normal C or D, and the SCSI as "NONE" in bios 
setup.  Assuming your controller and SCSI drive are working and setup
right, they should appear at bootup as the controller BIOS runs a little
program and searches for SCSI devices. You'll probably need some software
that should have come with the controller if you need to format or partition
your SCSI drive.  
SCSI is not a "hard disk" standard.  It's a parallel interface standard. 
Keep that in mind and you'll understand a little bit more about using 
SCSI devices and controllers.
.
From: cnbs26@ccsun.strath.ac.uk ("D.J.Powell")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: HELP!! .. hard disk fault
Keywords: hard disk, olivetti
Date: 9 Dec 92 21:08:11 GMT
Organization: University of Strathclyde



Recently I've been trying to fix a friends Olivetti M16 laptop
computer. There appears to be a fault with the hard disk since
it is not recognised at boot up. It appears as if the disk is
having problems spinning up to speed.

Having assumed (correctly I hope) that the problem lies with
the disk and therefore needs to be replaced I am left with the
problem of not knowing which type to buy. (I know its an IDE drive)

From previous experience, I've been able to fit just about any
drive to any PC and with the BIOS setup routine it is possible to
set features such as block size, num of sectors landing zone etc.
However with this olivetti machine the setup gives you only three
options type 1, type 2, and type 3 (20MB, 40MB & 100MB respectively).

My friend is convinced that the drive was a 40MB device however
the serial number on the bottom of the case does not seem to imply
this (xx3xxxxxxxx).

Is the best solution to buy an identical device to that currently
fitted (CONNER CP044 ? ... if my memory serves me correctly)?
or is it possible to use any IDE drive and inform the machine
as to the correct disk parameters.

I feel that there may be some problems in obtaining a identical
replacement drive and also the performance of such a drive is not
particularly good by todays standards. An olivetti dealer has
quoted a ridiculously high price (500 pounds) to repair the
machine, which considering todays laptop prices seems pointless
paying.


Any help will be gratefully received.

Dave Powell.
From: "jun hashimoto" <jun.hashimoto@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: re:opti owners,
Date: 18 Dec 92 13:55:05 EST
Reply-To: "jun hashimoto" <jun.hashimoto@channel1.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

P >Hopefully OPTI owners will come forward and help compile a list
P >of working chipsets and non-working chipsets. Possibly with the
P >hardware that caused problems, or supected hardware that worked fine.
P >Maybe OPTI can pick up the ball from there.

I have 2 mother boards, one has 82C481/82C482 chip set (call Machine A)
and other has 82C493/82C392 (Write Back Cache) chip set (call Machine B).

P >The common threads I've seen so far:
P >
P >1. People with problems mostly state they are using 486 boards.
P >2. People with problems mostly state they have a write-back cache.
P >3. People stating non-write-back caches have had better compatibility.

Yes, Machine B has some compatibility problem.

P >4. The most problematic piece of hardware seems to be the Gravis Ultra
P >   The majority of disgruntled GUS owners have OPTI chipsets.

Machine A works perfectly with GUS, but B hangs up while GUS setup.

P >5. The SB-Pro has also had problems with the OPTI chipset.

I've never tried SB-Pro on Machine B, but A works fine with SB-Pro.
And B can work with SB 1.0 (non-Pro).

P >6. Adaptec SCSI controllers have problems with very fast disks, or
P >   Multiple devices on the controller (High DMA throughput)

Machine B works well with AHA-1542B and Toshiba CD-ROM.
Machine A has 4 SCSI devices (2 HDDs, 1 CD-ROM, 1 Tape) with AHA-1542B.

P >7. The date of the chipset seems to bee irrelavent.

I don't know.

P >8. Some have claimed that if the cache is disabled, compatibility retu

Never tried.

--
 Jun Hashimoto, Tokyo, Japan



--- WinQwk 2.0b#295
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Channel 1 (R)   Cambridge, MA

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From: miket@exucom.com (Michael Teper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Internal 14.4K Modems
Date: 16 Dec 92 01:05:30 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.windows.ms
Organization: ExuCom MultiMedia Inc.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]

Ray Mitchell (mitch@nosc.mil) wrote:
: 
: I'm in the process of buying a 14.4K internal modem and need some guidance.
: The brands I have had recommended include Intel, USR, Complete Comp,
: Practical Comp, MACS, and Boca.  Excuse misspellings because all of these
: have been phone discussions.  Price is an object but it doesn't outweigh
: reliability.  A FAX feature is desirable but not a must if the price is
: right.  The best price I found was on a Boca 14.4K FAX modem but one
: source told me they do not run reliably at 14.4K because they lack a
: UART, and one can't be added.
: 
: Any and all recommendations, insights, and horror stories will be
: appreciated.  Please get technical about various features, problems,
: etc.  Please e-mail.
: 
: Thanks in advance
: Ray Mitchell
: mitch@nosc.mil

Yeah, BOCA has no UART, and I've heard a lot of bad thingfs about
SUPRA (then again, DATASTORM's BBS has 11 SUPRA nodes -- go figure)
I just bought a 14.4K Fax/Modem from Midwest Micro - Infotel 144I
internal and I am satisfied with it to a point. The point is: either
the modem or the Quick Link II software bundled with it has screwed up
my Windows (it's still working but crashes once every 1/2 hour) and I
also get problems on the hardware level such as when windows crashes a
hundredth time, I can't just do a warm reboot, and I HAVE TO WAIT at
least 5 to 10 minutes before doing a cold reboot, or else I get RAM
checksum errors (new RAM - 2 months old never had these problems
before). Aside from that, however, namely in DOS I am more than
satisfied with performance.

MikeT
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From: harrison@aurs01.UUCP (S. Keith Harrison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Rediculously slow floppy drives after 286->486 upgrade.  Help?
Date: 17 Dec 92 20:26:39 GMT
Reply-To: harrison@aurxcg.aur.alcatel.com.UUCP (S. Keith Harrison)
Distribution: na
Organization: Alcatel Network Systems, Raleigh NC

In article <widow.724576075@camelot> widow@camelot.bradley.edu (Shaun Burnett) writes:
-
-	I upgraded my system from a 286/12.5 to a 486/33.  I took
-	the two drives that came with my 286 (1.44M and 1.2M), and put
-	them in the 486.
-
-	Now I know that floppy drive access under DR-DOS 6.0 is slow,
-	but now it is painfully slow.  In fact, it seems slower than
-	when I had the 286.
-

I bought a completely new 486/33 with TEAC Drives, an offshore ide controller,
OPTI/AMI offshore motherboard and CMS tape drive.  I have the same problem.  
My floppy drives will spin for 4 or 5 seconds before any head motion.

I've tried booting vanilla DOS 3.31, DOS 5.0 and OS/2 2.0.  The problem is 
unchanged.  I disconnected the CMS tape drive, again with no improvement.

-
-	Anyone have any suggestions or insight?  I don't have the slow
-	drive access problem under OS/2 2.0.  

I'm about ready to try a new ide controller board.  I can get one locally for 
$15. Am I on the right track?  Anyone else having this problem?

-
-Shaun Burnett		    |	"You can't survive on a new planet with a
-widow@camelot.bradley.edu   |	soul full of hope and fresh air you know."
-OS/2--Happy Happy Joy Joy--OS/2		-  Dr. Who (Tom Baker)


'^`'^`'^`'^`'^`'^`'^`'^`'^`'^`'^`'^`'^`'^`'^`'^`'^`'^`'^`'^`'^
 S. Keith Harrison          harrison%aurfs1%aurgate@mcnc.org 
 Alcatel, Raleigh, NC USA   ...!mcnc!aurgate!aurfs1!harrison 
 (919) 850-6560             73457.1660@compuserve.com           
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: Jack_Lee@mindlink.bc.ca (Jack Lee)
Subject: Re: Does anyone have a number for ATI?
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 06:51:29 GMT

> John Patrick Lestrade writes:
>
> Msg-ID: <lestrade.724011823@Ra.MsState.Edu>
> Posted: Thu, 10 Dec 1992 18:23:4
>
> Org.  : Mississippi State University
>
> I would appreciate the phone number for ATI. (as in graphics
> cards. )
> thanks
>
> --
> John Patrick Lestrade
> cnesta::lestrade                       Let's try again in '96!
> lestrade@ra.msstate.edu


Tel (416) 756-0718
Fax (416) 756-0720
BBS (416) 756-4591

They also have a fairly high volume support forum on Compuserve.

-J

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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Where the mac really wins
Keywords: computers
Date: 15 Dec 92 19:32:20 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Indiana University

In article <1fur2gINNql5@hpscit.sc.hp.com> klui@corp.hp.com (Kenneth K.F. Lui) writes:
>In article <1992Dec6.192109.6920@infonode.ingr.com> bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown) writes:
>>                                                   Ease of learning
>>is most important to those with learning disabilities.
>>
>Ease of learning is important if one wants to spend his time
>working on problems instead of learning to deal with a program's
>interface.  Learning about how computers work isn't the top
>priority for a lot of users out there--if this weren't true, all
>computers would use punched tape as computer commands.

Oh great. And Mac users don't have to learn how to use it? Have you
ever tried teaching someone to use the Mac over the phone? "Yeah.. you 
have to be in the finder. Click on the top right hand coner - yeah the 
top right corner - see that picture? Yeah now do you see the Finder? 
What? You don't see the finder????" 

I find Mac users need as much help as PC users most of the time.

>>When I was in school, I preferred to use the macs in the computing
>>center instead of the the PCs.  That was because the boneheads
>>at the computing center didn't know how to set up a PC because
>>they were a bunch of snobbish mac gurus.

At the beginning of the semester the Mac labs get more use than the 
PC labs, perhaps because the Macs look a little cuter and the mud 
and game players predominate. Later in the semester after people ac-
tually start writing papers etc. you'll see the PC labs chock full 
and the Mac labs almost empty as people realize that the PCs actually
let you get the work done without crashing because you forgot to 
reboot the computer first and someone left LPMUD running in the back-
ground and will let you print without having to check the Print Moni-
tor for constipation.

>Actually, Mac gurus I know of wouldn't touch a PC with a 10'
>pole.

Yeah.. because they can't edit a simple text file so they feel 
intimidated.

-- 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Bitnet:   NTAIB@IUBACS                 !
From: davei@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Mr D Ingles)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Stand alone disk formater
Date: 14 Dec 92 15:40:43 GMT
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.

Has anyone got any information / circuit diagrams on how to build a unit
to convert a spare 3.5" disk drive into a disk formatter / copier ?

I find that a lot of the time my PC is sitting doing nothing apart from 
formatting / copying disks.

Davei
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From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Completing tasks under the desktop metaphor
	Re: Where the mac really wins
Date: 18 Dec 92 23:50:37 GMT
Organization: Unix/Xenix Support Group
Supersedes: <id.BFXV.8Y7@ferranti.com>
Folowup-To: comp.windows.misc

In article <18386@borg.cs.unc.edu> lari@strauss.cs.unc.edu (Humayun Lari) writes:
> Um, closing a window is a much more common act than quitting an application.

In general, quitting an application is a special case of closing a window: it
is the case where you are closing the last document window open under that
application. I realise that the Mac originally did not provide for the
concurrent execution of multiple applications, thus the concurrent display
under the window system of documents that require different applications
to edit, but with a modern operating system and a reasonably efficient
application launch and context switch there's no reason not to tie applications
to documents, and I think most modern window systems do that.

Personally, I find the Mac model where applications have this strange undead
life after you've quit working on the file associated with them quite
disturbing. I feel it VERY strongly violates the desktop metaphor, and
I'm frequently caught out when there's some application lying around in
the background eating up memory with no visual indication that it exists.
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: kress@kentrox.uucp (Bill Kress)
Subject: Re: Where the mac really wins
Organization: ADC Kentrox - Portland, Oregon
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 18:01:50 GMT

Why is alt-f4 so difficult, it closes a window or an app.

stupid arguement anyway.  Computers, editors, and cars--the reasons people
like the ones they do are almost always irrational, but then the people
try to justify them by saying that it's a feature.

   sigh. 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.windows.ms