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From: csjohn@knuth.mtsu.edu (John Wallace)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,misc.forsale,misc.forsale.computers
Subject: Diamond Speedstar Plus (1MB, 1024x768) for sale
Date: 27 Jan 1993 09:22:34 -0600
Organization: Dept of Comp Science, Middle Tenn State Univ, Murfreesboro, TN
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: knuth.mtsu.edu
Summary: Diamond Speedstar Plus (!MB, 1024x768) for sale

I have a Diamond Speedstar Plus video card for sale.  It has 1MB VRAM,
an ET4000 chipset, and a maximum display resolution of 1024x768.
It is in great condition, since I have had it for less than a week!
It does not work well with OS/2, which is what I am running.
Give me your best offer! 

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From: a_beddoerj@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Video Blaster AVI card/software: good thing?
Date: 27 Jan 93 14:09:23 CST
Organization: Stephen F. Austin State University

Hello all,

I am in the market for a good AVI card/software package for the PC for a 
specific purpose.

I want to use it (mainly) to subtitle videotapes/LDs that are in Japanese
in English.  I have other uses, mainly software-based ones (i.e., editing
imported video images, etc.) but the main use if for subtitling.

I saw an ad in PC Magazine (latest issue) for a new package from Creative
Labs and MS called Video Blaster.  I know the Video Blaster is an AVI card
from Creative Labs, but now they are including some software:  MS Video for
Windows, Tempra, and Action!  

I was wondering:  is this a suitable package for what I want to do?  I have in
mind using a complete script of dislogue (text) and timing it out to real-time
video.  Hopefully, you'd be able to time the script to run automatically,
but that's nice, not necessary.

Also, is the Video Blaster card a good AVI card?  Does it double as a video
(VGA/SVGA) card?  How good is the resolution?  Is it worth it?

ANY information would be very helpful, and appreciated.


Later,
"Crusher" Joe.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: DTC SCSI/Noname IDE together+friendly Thank You!
From: akhran@krypton.mankato.msus.edu (Scott V Buresh)
Date: 23 Jan 93 21:24:34 -0600





      Thanks to all those who have replied to our call for help.  I managed
to get the DTC SCSI/Quantum and the Seagate/Noname controller to work
together by making the IDE the C: drive and loading a SCSI API and device
driver on bootup.  The system now has a total of 305MB of HD space.


    Thanks again.  I wouldn't have guessed that the same driver you use to 
load the disk partitioning and formatting software you also use to assign
the SCSI as logical drive D:.

-Longshot(Erik Green)
Borrowed account: akhran@krypton.mankato.msus.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: WD Caviar 2200 slow?
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:13:23 GMT

In article <2129@acf5.NYU.EDU> liuyu@acf5.NYU.EDU (liuyu) writes:
>Hi,
>  I just bought a Wd Caviar 2200 hard drive. The Norton SI only shows about
>600k/sec DTR. But it showed over 1000k/sec DTR when I first
>installed it. Later it just dropped down to 600k.
>The Checkit gives me 890k/s consistantly. I tried a different IDE card. And
>the same thing happened again. At first SI showed over 1000k DTR. But after
>running checkit which gave me 890k, SI dropped down to 600k. Even after
>rebooting, SI still gave me 600k.
>I was wondering if Norton SI or Checkit had bugs. Maybe one them change my
>CMOS setting (ie bus speed). But I doubt it because I checked my CMOS and
>there was no change.


You know, I've had a similar experience with a Maxtor 7130 
drive. When first installed Checkit gave it a 700+k transfer
rate. Its now dropped down to 350 or so. 

I wonder if the automatic sector substitution (where the drive 
will move stuff from a bad sector to a reserved, good sector) 
has kicked in. Its supposed to be transparent. Yes, I have been 
doing disk optimization.




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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: kmink@hubcap.clemson.edu (Kenneth S Mink)
Subject: Printer Question
Summary: I want to connect an ImageWriter II to an IBM PC
Keywords: printer, ibm, apple
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 07:01:11 GMT



I recently came into possession of an Apple ImageWriter II.  I own an IBM clone
and want to know if it is possible to use this printer with my computer.
Please respond with e-mail as I'm cross posting to a bunch of groups.
Thanks in advance.

Ken


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: thail@seas.gwu.edu (Samuel R. Posten)
Subject: diamond stealth vesa local bus
Organization: George Washington University
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 04:21:13 GMT

I'm having trouble adapting my c source code to work with this card, and
the vesa driver in cshow only works with 24 bit color modes.  Anybody got
any ideas?

Sam
From: rick@rgb.com (Rick Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: IDE-Harddisks BIOS & Jumper settings
Date: 19 Jan 93 17:32:45 GMT
Organization: RGB Spectrum

ph12hucg@sbusol.rz.uni-sb.de (Carsten Grammes) writes:

>Does anybody know of an up-to-date list of most sold HD's and the above
>parameters. If yes - please post a pointer regularly. If not - then we
>should take a common effort to create one that will be posted to
>this newsgroup. I offer myself to collect all available data and to
>publish it.

There is a published list put out by Drive Services Corporation.  The
latest list contains settings for over 1600 drive types.  Carsten, I
hope you like to type!  The only list on the net is very out of date, 
it only consists  of a hundred drives or so.  We've tried a couple of
times to get an updated list going, but so far it has gone nowhere.  

I think this information ( both the DRS reference and the list if 
it ever exists ) should become part of the FAQ for this group, since
people seem unwilling or unable to post these requests to 
comp.peripherals where they belong. 

-- 
                   R  G  B  Spectrum
              950 Marina Village Parkway  / "You can't fight in here - this
                  Alameda, California     / is the war room!" - Dr. Stragelove
                     rick@rgb.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: Advice needed for buying an ET4000 board
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:05:01 GMT

In article <csjohn.727466545@knuth.mtsu.edu> csjohn@knuth.mtsu.edu (John Wallace) writes:

>I will be buying an ET4000 16-bit graphics board very soon, but I am
>unsure which one I should buy.  I cannot spend more than $150 (US) for
>this board, and I need at least 1 meg RAM on it.  Can you give me any
>advice on which one I should buy?  Thanks.

Consider that the accelerated Diamond Speedstar 24X can be had mail 
order for $155 one should be able to pick up a good Tseng card for 
considerably less. The best one around I think is the Diamond Speed-
star. It comes with some pretty good drivers.



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: wiegand@rtsg.mot.com (Robert Wiegand)
Subject: Re: need advice for graphics card for OS/2
Reply-To: motcid!wiegand@uunet.uu.net
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:48:41 GMT

In article <1j79eiINNnjp@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> slug@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Wowbagger The Infinitely Prolonged) writes:
>
>I am about to purchase a 486-66 with 16 megs of memory, and I am in dire need
>of advice on which graphics card to buy.
>
>I am looking for a high-powered accelerator card, and my price range is up to
>$600.
>
>The catch?  I need it to work well (and at full-speed) under OS/2 2.0.  I was
>considering the ATI Graphics Ultra Pro, but local bus versions are only 
>available to OEM suppliers, and there are very few of them.  Gateway and 
>Hyundai are the only 2 that I've found.
>
>How are the ET-4000 based and S3 based cards?  I see many local bus versions
>of them and some claim up to about 50 million winmarks (2x the ATI Pro), but
>what about their OS/2 support?  Did the Service Pak include drivers for them
>and if it did, what resolutions are they and are these cards fast under 
OS/2?
>

ET4000 cards are supported by OS/2, but this is a standard SVGA card,
not an accelerated card.

I don't believe S3 drivers are available yet.

I have heard that non-IBM XGA cards should be available soon. I don't
know if they are out yet, but if they are they would also be a
good posibility.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: syserror@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Artificial Intelligence)
Subject: Using an MFM HD with an IDE HD
Organization: The Superior Silicon Race
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 18:19:02 GMT


A friend of mine currently has one IDE drive with IDE 2HD/2FD interface card
in his system.  He also has an MFM drive, and plans to get an MFM interface
card, hopefully being able to use both drives.  Will the IDE drive and MFM
drive both be usable in the same system?  Has anyone attempted this?  If so, is
there any conflict over which drive is master, which card controls the 
floppies, or anything else which would prevent an MFM and an IDE drive from
peacefully coexisting? 

Thank you in advance-



Aaron
-- 
Lifetimes come and go, memories pass and fade;
The frailties of carbon based life shall yield
To the superior permanence of silicon...

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: remek@mamura.ee.mu.oz.au (Remek Lipinski)
Subject: Tape Drive info needed (Irwin Magnetics)
Organization: Electrical and Electronic - University of Melbourne 
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 08:53:49 GMT

Hi netters,

	I have a bit of a problem, I am trying to set up a pc with a
tape drive, the tape drive is an Irwin Magnetics model 120 configuration
AP, it is about 5 years old, and connects directly on to the floppy
controller. The problem I am having is that the software for the drive
has been lost. Would anyone out there know how this drive should be set up
and what software can drive it. The distributer mentioned to me that
the drives used something called Easy Tape or EZtape, I have tried SYTOS
software but it does not seem to work. Also would anyone have specs on
this drive, like its capacity (I think it is a 120Mb from the model number
but I am only guessing). Any help would be grately appreciated, as I have
not had any experience with tape drives. Thanks in advance,

							Remek.

P.S. Please email your responses as I am not able to read the news groups
very often, I will post or mail a summary if anyone requests it.
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From: allen.edwards@spacebbs.com (Allen Edwards) 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: COLORADO JUMBO 250 - HELP
Date: 24 Jan 93 20:29:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: SPACE BBS - Menlo Park, CA - 10 Lines + 4gB - 415-323-4193
Reply-To: allen.edwards@spacebbs.com (Allen Edwards) 

I am trying to get this Jombo Colorado 250 to format a tape and am
having no luck.  I have read the postings here and am having no luck.  I
have a 33 MHz 486 clone (AMI bios).  The LIM 4.0 option was set to N and
the dual DMA option was set to N as was suggested in the postings.  The
most complex TSR I have is the mouse driver.  I have the regular stuff
that people have for windows, a ramdrive, a MSCDEX, SHARE, etc, but no
screen savers or disc cache stuff.

I tried the format for 5 hours and it was still running when I did the
three finger salute to stop it.  I have tried 2 backup programs, 2
tapes, and 2 drives (took one back).  It runs fairly smoothly for 1
hour, then seems to go into an endless loop of forward for 1 to 5
seconds, then reverse for about 1 second then it starts over.  Note that
the 1 to 5 sec represents a variability of actual time.  But it is not
doing nothing as the tape moves from one spool to the other about every
hour.

I just know that if I call the 800 number someone will tell me to try
something that won't work and I will wait 30 minuites that time and
another to call back.  Please help,  Thanks in advance, Allen
                                                                                                                          
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: R3DRS@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU
Subject: HELP! : UPGRADING SIMM'S IN GENERIC MOTHERBOARD
Organization: The University of Akron
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:20:08 GMT

Although im probably grasping at straws with this one, here goes:
 
   A few months ago, i purchased my 486/33 AMI bios machine through the
classified ads in the local paper.  It is populated with 8 1MEG simms, filling
all of the slots.  I am interested in adding memory, going to 4meg simms,
the problem is that i have no documentation for the mother board.  Are there
jumpers or something that have to be set when changing the memory
configuration?  The most likely candidate i see for something like this is a
set of four dip switches, all set to the same position for the current config.
There is no manufacturer name on the motherboard (as far as i can see).. are
there any IC's that i could look for that might give me a hint as to how those
switches should be set if i add memory? (or if they have anything at all to do
with the memory?)  If anyone out there would be willing to help, please email.
 
                                          Dave Snyder
                                          r3drs@vm1.cc.uakron.edu
                                          r3drs@vax1.cc.uakron.edu
 
PS - the bios date is mid 1991.
 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: tfalk@decoy.uucp (25442-falk)
Subject: CS Dee One Systems - beware
Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 20:15:12 GMT

Just a warning, buyer beware.

My 79 yr grandfather decides he wants to learn about computers and wants
a cheap machine to learn on.  After discussing with various people, we
decided to get a 386sx33.  We ordered it from Dee One Systems in California
based on a reasonably low price in Computer Shopper.

I should also state we ordered it without software.  When it arrived, we
booted it up off the hard disk.  I was a little surprised at first, because
it didn't boot off the MSDOS floppy in the A drive.  Since it came up on
the C drive, I looked and found command.com, fdisk.com and format.com on
the hard disk, but nothing else.  When I tried to install DOS from the 
floppy, no lights, nothing and a drive failure.  After trying to contact
them for over an hour, I opened the case.  Low and behold, they never
connected the ribbon cable from the floppy to the HD controller.

Says a lot for their quality control........

On the flip side, we ordered it with a .39 DP monitor, and the manual for
the one we received says it's a .28........ Go figure...

Ted

The first rule of diving:    Take only pictures, leave only bubbles.

Ted Falk, aka "Land Shark"   (candygram.....),    Bellcore, Piscataway NJ.     
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From: kentiler@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Kent P. Iler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Help picking CD-rom drive for use with SB Pro
Date: 25 Jan 1993 11:07:13 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

Hi,
  I have been looking around for a CD-rom drive and I was looking
for some suggestions.  I have seen a Talon drive from INSIGHT
that has 300 kb/s transfer rate, 64 K buffer.  Will this hook up to
a sound blaster pro?  This also has one of the fastest transfer rates
I've seen, plus it is around $540 which seems reasonable for this
drive.  
  If any of you have any suggestions or comments please send them.
I'm a college student and that's alot of $$ to mess up on a 
wrong CD drive.
				Thanks,
					--Kent
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown)
Subject: Re: Western Digital's WD90C30 and WD90C31 for VGA
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 04:47:00 GMT

boyd@cs.unca.edu (Mark Boyd) writes:

>>> the same chip.  Depends on Hardware implementation and software (drivers).
>>> The Speedstar 24X comes with monitor model specific drivers.

>My Speedstar 24X didn't come with monitor model specific drivers! It
>came with a (DOS only) program, 24xmode, which allows you to select
>the behavior for the various video modes. You usually set them by
>selecting a particular monitor from the list, but you can also set
>them (refresh rate, sync polarities) for each mode the card supports.
>Nice. But the program must be run each time you boot, so if you aren't
>using DOS, it is useless.

What you say is true about 24XMODE, but there are DIP swtiches on
the board that let you specify which refresh rate is used with
which mode.  I think it defaults to these settings if 24XMODE
hasn't been run (which would be the case when not using DOS.

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Intergraph Corporation                                  
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mike@ravel.udel.edu (Michael James Porter)
Subject: Re: Is Gateway 15" CrystalScan monitor edge-to-edge video?
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:29:18 GMT

In article <1993Jan20.224657.17207@cbnews.cb.att.com> rlw@cbnews.cb.att.com (robin.l.williams) writes:
>     As usual, I have been unable to get through to Gateway.  Can someone
>tell me if their 15" CrystalScan Monitor has edge-to-edge video?

Since the controls are right on the front, you can expand the image to
extend right to the edges if you want.  However, I find that I have to
keep it slightly smaller to avoid edge distortion.  I'm pretty happy with
the monitor.  When I got it, it was $200 extra, but now that it is only
$100 extra, I would really recommend it.

Mike
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: esaffle@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Ed Saffle)
Subject: Problems with my new tvga8900c
Organization:  Ed's Desk, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:35:57 GMT

  I got a system recently and I decided to add some drivers to Wordperfect and
to windows so I could get  800x600 graphics, and 80x30 text modes.  Everything
works pretty well, but I have a couple of programs, one being the video driver
installation disk that came with the card, which get sort of screwy.  It pops
up a window, with buttons on the screen to push with the mouse, then if you
hit one, a small square around the pointer turns white (blank?) and stays that
way.  It only does it while I have this driver running.  If I reboot, without
the driver line in autoexec.bat, it works fine.  I can't seem to dig up any
documentation on any of the drivers, and I am out of ideas myself.  Anybody
know what I am doing wrong...or what the card is doing wrong if I am actually
doing everything right.

Ed
From: goldberg@techunix.technion.ac.il (Jacques Goldberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: CGA character generator chip
Summary: Need info on the CGA character generator ROM for NEC Ultralife 286f
Keywords: CGA character ROM NEC-Ultralife-286f
Date: 22 Jan 93 08:41:33 GMT
Organization: Technion, Israel Institute of Technology

Who knows which is and where is the ROM character generator chip for the CGA
display in a NEC Ultralife 286f notebook?

Who knows if such chips are in general interchangeable between machines of
different makes?

The issue behind the questions is to produce Hebrew characters instead of
"national" characters on such a notebook, hopefully by just replacing the
ROM chip with something otherwise compatible.

Or is it technically conceivable (and perhaps readily available off the shelf
somewhere) to fake the ROM by software?

Thanks in advance - Jacques Goldberg, Prof of Physics, Technion, Haifa, Israel
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,news.groups
Subject: Re: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: f67709907@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (Greg Franklin)
Date: 23 Jan 93 20:36:57 MST
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona
Nntp-Posting-User: f67709907

Why should a .pc or .pc-clone hierarchy be used instead of the existing
.ibm.pc?  I.e., why duplicate an existing hierarchy?

The current structure works just fine for people who don't run IBM-made 
PCs, or don't even use Micro Channel Architecture.  E.g., most posters
to csip.hardware, .soundcard, and .games do NOT have IBM-made PCs, yet
they feel free to ask questions in there.  comp.sys.ibm.pc stands less
for "IBM" than "computers with Intel x86 CPUs running DOS, OS/2, Windows,
Linux, or whatever."  To me, there appears no need to delete the "ibm"
part of the group name--it is a de facto "pc-clone" group already!

That being said, I still support subdividing csip.hardware into various
interest areas.   We ought to be deciding what areas to include.
-- 
Greg "Mockingbird" Franklin     "Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate
f67709907@ccit.arizona.edu      things." -- Dan's advice to Pres. Clinton

   Delightful Things
     A love unknown to others.
     To have solved a riddle.
     A real bargain at a shop.
     A letter from one's sweetheart.
     When something one has ordered turns out well.
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