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From: erik@csa.bu.edu (Erik McCormick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Urgent question about Hitachi Chip!
Date: 22 Aug 92 21:41:23 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Originator: erik@csa

URGENT PLEASE!!!!!!!

If any one has any information on the malfuntion of:

Hitachi chip: 6063 date code 0a2q and 9b38


Apparently a batch produced in malyasia from about 1990 Jan 12-18
(batch size about 100,000?) have an abnormality in the optical dye.

In most cases the chps are fine, except in some situations when there
are malfunctions (duhh!!) after hibernation.  However, if the chips are 
asked to rehibernate, and then taken out, the chips works fine.  In 
standard testing the chips perform properly as well.  Any assistance or 
information that you might be able to offer is greatly appreciated.

Please mail any information to honjo1@husc.harvard.edu.  


-Yuki Honjo


Xref: sparky comp.sys.misc:629 comp.os.msdos.misc:4777
From: kraai4712@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Mitsubishi PC EMERGENCY
Date: 17 Aug 92 10:07:53 -0500
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

Thanks to everyone who responded to my posting about the Mitsubishi PC. Here's
the rest of the story:

I'm a software support person for a university that deems campus beautification
more important than hiring instructors to fill vacant positions.  I'm
responsible for about 1500 MS-DOS compatible PCs on campus.  I only have so
much time in the day to preach backup theology.  I've got the software set up
for a "mandatory" daily backup which fails when they learn what "Abort, Retry,
Fail?" means.

I was operating with the information that they had given me and I knew that I
couldn't get over there to check the situation out for about a day.

They have a Mitsubishi monitor with an Intel PC.  I asked what kind of computer
they had and they told me the monitor manufacturer ... I should've known not to
assume ...

They hadn't been backing their machine up, but the software company will
download all they need via modem.  Evidently they didn't have any important
data stored on the machine.

Their hard drive head crashed in such a way that it began cutting grooves into
the disk itself.  They ran some extensive tests on it and effectively ruined
the whole hard drive instead of just the boot sectors.  Sounds like fingernails
on a black-board when it's spinning.

While they were running the tests, they fiddled with the CMOS settings and
hence the computer wouldn't recognize the hard drive.  Which resulted in not
being able to run Norton Utils on it.

At one point early in in the conversation, I asked if they had had any power
surges that might've messed things up, and they said yes, but it didn't matter
because when they happened, the PC wasn't on (but it was plugged in).  Two
things come to mind:  1)  Is there a correlation between the PC not being up
and the power surges?  2)  I've seen powered-down components, including
computers, get fried by power spikes right through surge protectors, don't they
understand electricity well enough to know that this type of thing happens?

They're ordering a new hard drive.  I got the contradictory impression that
they desperately needed the computer to run the power plant, but it didn't
mattter that they might have to wait a couple of weeks for funding and shipping
of another hard disk.  Do they run it manually?  I didn't ask, I was kind of
frightened by the whole thing.

Thanks again,  --jim
From: nmodi@klinzhai.rutgers.edu (Nirav Modi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Graphics board(VGA), Reading material
Date: 13 Aug 92 21:55:39 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.



Hello
	I have request for IBM PC Hardware Gurus.

	Right now I am working on a hardware project. For my project
work, I am designing a graphics board which connects two VGA cards
(8 bits outputs , speed 36.5 MHz) and selects one of VGA card output.
I have controller to select VGA  card output. 

	I am storing output in static RAM and providing it to another
VGA card.

	I am looking reference material -related books, papers with
graphics board.

	Can you be kind enough to guide me?
	
	I will be very much thankful to you.
	
	Thank you very much and Have a nice day.

-Nirav Modi
nmodi@klinzhai.rutgers.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: modem question
From: powalisz@nrlvx1.nrl.navy.mil
Date: 20 Aug 92 14:26:42 -0400
Organization: NRL SPACE SYSTEMS DIVISION

Question: Does anyone know the configuration of the DIP switches for a
          Concord Data Systems Model 224 (BIS/224/AD) modem? It has a Rev. 1.0
          ROM in it and dates back to 1984.

          Even just the address of Concord Data Systems would be enough so I
          can write for a manual...

Thanks, in advance.

Ron Powalisz
Xref: sparky comp.sys.misc:631 comp.os.msdos.misc:4802
From: glratt@is.rice.edu (Glenn Forbes Larratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Mitsubishi PC EMERGENCY!!!!!
Date: 19 Aug 1992 04:30:35 GMT
Organization: CRC OCIS, William Marsh Rice University, Houston, Texas

In article <1992Aug14.104706.6067@iscsvax.uni.edu> kraai4712@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
>HELP!
>
>I'm using a Mitsubishi MS-DOS compatible computer whose hard disk has crashed.
>
>I'm using it to control a POWER PLANT, get the magnitude of the problem?
>
>It's real important that I recover the software on it as I probably can't
>replace it.
>
>I've got Norton Utils, but when I boot from floppy, I can't access the hard
>drive (doesn't recognize its presence).

	Just for the record: is your boot floppy, perchance, DOS 3.30 or
	less?  If so, and your hard drive is >32M, that might explain why
	you can't access it.

>
>Does anyone know any back doors into the system (like Zenith's
>control-alt-insert, anything like that?)  Any device drivers that I can load
>from floppy to help it recognize the hard drive?
>
>Thanks much in advance.
>
>jim kraai
>kraai4712@iscsvax.uni.edu
>319-268-0320 or 319-273-5555


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc
From: miles@ms.uky.edu (Stephen D. Grant)
Subject: Computer Equipment - Worldwide Service
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 15:21:58 GMT
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences

This is posted for a friend who is trying to increase his sales
not only in the U.S. but worldwide.

-------------------

This is to inform interested parties about the products
available from Lexington Computer Store, located
in Lexington, Kentucky, USA.

We are an authorized dealer for Apple, Compaq, IBM
and other various third party vendors. 

We carry Memory, peripherals, Hard Drives, Printers
and many other items in stock for delivery.

We will ship worldwide, and within the 50 US States,
and can also ship authorized service parts.

For more information, call or fax your requests or
inquiries to Mark Turnbow.

Phone 606-268-1431
Fax 606-268-2177

Mark Turnbow
Lexington Computer Store]
2909 Richmond Rd,
Lexington, KY 40509

Thanks!

----------------------------
From: SDENARO%POLYVM@vm.poly.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: (none)
Date: 12 Aug 92 17:54:48 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

Can I be signed up to this list?

sdenaro@polyvm.poly.edu
From: eudoh@ST6000.SCT.EDU (Etop Udoh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Disk Drive alignment software & diskette....
Date: 21 Aug 92 02:29:25 GMT
Organization: The Internet


hi,


  I'm looking for information about floppy drive alignment software and
the alignment diskette which is used in the process.....
I"m especially interested in support for :

    5'1/4" 80 track quad density 96 tpi drives   
   in terms of software and the availability of that specific type of
  alignment diskette.....

 I will consider any operating system at this time, besides the standard
MDSDOS......
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From: kraai4712@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Mitsubishi PC EMERGENCY!!!!!
Date: 14 Aug 92 10:47:06 -0500
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

HELP!

I'm using a Mitsubishi MS-DOS compatible computer whose hard disk has crashed.

I'm using it to control a POWER PLANT, get the magnitude of the problem?

It's real important that I recover the software on it as I probably can't
replace it.

I've got Norton Utils, but when I boot from floppy, I can't access the hard
drive (doesn't recognize its presence).

Does anyone know any back doors into the system (like Zenith's
control-alt-insert, anything like that?)  Any device drivers that I can load
from floppy to help it recognize the hard drive?

Thanks much in advance.

jim kraai
kraai4712@iscsvax.uni.edu
319-268-0320 or 319-273-5555
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
From: bediger@nyx.cs.du.edu (bruce allen ediger)
Subject: Stardent disk formatting
Summary:  How does it work?
Keywords: Stardent Titan, SCSI disk formatting
Organization: National Kibo Front
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 17:51:26 GMT


For lack of a better place to post this, how does one go about formatting a
SCSI disk on a Stardent Titan?  Is there an analog of "format" (under SunOS)
or "fx" (under IRIX)?  Scrounging through the man pages only reveals how
to format from the diagnostic prompt.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc
From: dman@netcom.com (Dallman Ross)
Subject: Re: Mitsubishi PC EMERGENCY!!!!!
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 18:01:59 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

gsroka@leland.Stanford.EDU (Gregory Sroka) writes:
: In article . . . kraai4712@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:

 <stuff deleted>

: >I'm using a Mitsubishi MS-DOS compatible computer whose hard disk has crashed.
 <stuff deleted>

: >I've got Norton Utils, but when I boot from floppy, I can't access the hard
: >drive (doesn't recognize its presence).
: >
 <stuff deleted>

: - check your setup - is the hard disk type info. gone due to dead battery?

I think the poster was saying he didn't know how to check his setup without
first getting to C:

There are compatible universal setup programs you can find (freeware) to
run from your floppy drive.

: - if that is correct, check disk cables, try to replace the controller card;
:   if you're lucky, it's one of these, and not a fatal disk crash!

Good suggestions.

: - if these don't help, and Norton doesn't help, carefully remove disk and
:   find a disk recovery expert, or your vendor/manufacturer and let them try
:   to rescue your data.

I think the poster imlied that Norton is only on his C: drive, so he can't
try it.

Anyway, the first thing to do is get a setup program for your floppy so
you can check the CMOS settings and make sure C: is still being recognized.

Good luck!

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc
From: gsroka@leland.Stanford.EDU (Gregory Sroka)
Subject: Re: Mitsubishi PC EMERGENCY!!!!!
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 07:28:20 GMT

In article <1992Aug14.104706.6067@iscsvax.uni.edu> kraai4712@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
>HELP!
>
>I'm using a Mitsubishi MS-DOS compatible computer whose hard disk has crashed.
>I'm using it to control a POWER PLANT, get the magnitude of the problem?
>It's real important that I recover the software on it as I probably can't
>replace it.
>I've got Norton Utils, but when I boot from floppy, I can't access the hard
>drive (doesn't recognize its presence).
>
>Thanks much in advance.
>
>jim kraai
>kraai4712@iscsvax.uni.edu
>319-268-0320 or 319-273-5555
If you say "Oops", your boss will forgive you! :)
Seriously, some ideas:
- check your setup - is the hard disk type info. gone due to dead battery?
- if that is correct, check disk cables, try to replace the controller card;
  if you're lucky, it's one of these, and not a fatal disk crash!
- if these don't help, and Norton doesn't help, carefully remove disk and
  find a disk recovery expert, or your vendor/manufacturer and let them try
  to rescue your data.
- Good luck!

Once the crisis is over, why not have a redundant PC, with a mirror of the
hard disk, and tape back-up?  Sounds like controlling a power plant is too
important a task to not spend the extra $1-2K!! 
Can you let us know how you resolve this? I'm also curious about how you're
using the PC to control this power plant, what type/size plant, and what type
of customers (residential, industrial, university, etc.).
Any info. you can share would be much appreciated.

---
Greg Sroka, Design Engineer and part-time MSEE student (S.U.)
Raychem Corporation, Menlo Park, CA
From: sandy@beeker.cs.umass.edu (Sandy Wise)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pen
Subject: PDA's
Date: 20 Aug 92 14:57:23 GMT
Reply-To: wise@cs.umass.edu
Organization: Organization?  I thought entropy would take care of that...

Rion Cassidy (rion@Ingres.COM) writes:
 > Guess I've been away too long.  What's a PDA?

James H. Coombs (jhc@m2lll.uucp) writes:
 > I asked about "PDA" before, and the responses were frivolous.  Can you
 > expand this?  Is it pen-desk accessory?

PDA is an acronym coined by Apple, it stands for "Personal Digital
Assistant."  According to Steve Gibson (in his InfoWorld column "Tech
Talk") it should be pronounced "Poda."

The PDA is supposed to be in the marketing hype of the Serius
Cybernetic Corporation the _The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy_:
"Your plastic pal, who's fun to be with!" :-)

PDAs are not supposed to be general purpose computers, they are
supposed to be portable information management tools. A smart daytimer
with a wireless modem (although the products won't have much
communications).  The idea is a little box that you write "Lunch with
Trillian on Tuesday." and it looks up Trillian in your address book to
find her full name, knows that your lunch hour is from 12 to 1 and
enters "Lunch with Tricia McMillen" in that time on next tuesday in
your daytimer.

For the short term, this means in the words of Apple: "A Sharp Wizard
on Steroids." For the long term this means a combination of Apple's
"Knowledge Navigator" and Microsoft's "Information at your
Fingertips."

How much is hype? How much is pipe-dream? Hey -- you want me to have
all the fun?
        /s
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.pen
From: ltao@netcom.com (Lilly Tao)
Subject: Re: Context switch on pen... idea
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 23:43:36 GMT
Organization: Netcom Online

Most "current" pen/digitizer combos have a button on the pen.  The GRiD
PalmPad has one.  

The idea is that a pen tap on the screen is the same as a main mouse
button click.  When you use the button on the pen, it's the equivalent of
the other (right side) mouse button click.

Lilly Tao
ltao@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pen
From: rion@Ingres.COM (Rion Cassidy (x3357) OGT)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pen
Subject: Re: Context switch on pen... idea
Date: 21 Aug 92 18:12:38 GMT
Reply-To: rion@Ingres.COM (Rion Cassidy (x3357) OGT)
Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501

In article <1992Aug20.212708.22109@bert.eecs.uic.edu> artn@bert.eecs.uic.edu (Ellyn Sandor) writes:
>	Does anyone else think this would be a good idea?  What sort of
>context changing can you think of?  How about a two-sided pen, sort of
>like flipping a pencil over to use the eraser?  
>
>			Stephan Meyers

Yes, I came up with this while at GRiD systems, but it turned out that
Wang already had a patent on it.  I am surprised that no one is interested
in implementing this way.  It seem so natural.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pen,sci.electronics
From: orchard@informatik.uni-ulm.de (John Orchard)
Subject: PCMCIA Specs?
Organization: University of Ulm, Germany
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 13:20:04 GMT

Does anyone know where we might be able to get the mechanical, electrical
and timing specs of the various kinds of PCMCIA slot?

Presumably the address or phone number of the PCMCIA organization itself
would be sufficient.

Thanks,
John Orchard       orchard@informatik.uni-ulm.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pen
From: jhc@m2lll.uucp (James H. Coombs)
Subject: Re: Context switch on pen... idea
Reply-To: jhc@iris.brown.edu.UUCP (James H. Coombs)
Organization: IRIS - Brown University
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 06:15:05 GMT

In article <1992Aug20.212708.22109@bert.eecs.uic.edu> artn@bert.eecs.uic.edu (Ellyn Sandor) writes:

>	Mice have buttons.  Why can't a pen have a button?
>	I am picturing the sort of button you use on a ball point pen
>at the top of the pen to click the ink thingie into and out of writing
>position.

The Wacom pen has a button that can readily be positioned right under
your thumb as you write.  Much more convenient, I think, than a button
at the top.

>	I think a button at the top of the pen, usable with the thumb,
>would be ideal for some sort of "context switch" within applications.

Ever start writing with a ballpoint only to find that you had not
pushed out the point yet?  I think there are modal problems with the
physical pen that you are using as a model.

>For example, one mode for creating text <click> another mode for editing.
>Perhaps there would be some sort of LED or even a mechanical indicator
>of mode (do pens have batteries in them?)

How is this better than an icon that you tap on to change modes?

--Jim
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pen
From: cew@netcom.com (Clayton Weimer)
Subject: PenPoint position available at startup
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 22:05:55 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Keywords: penpoint

This is being posted for a friend, do not reply to me.

------------------------------------------------------

Sb: Position Available
Fm: Mike Thompson 
To: all

PEN SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS WANTED

aha! software corporation is looking for top-flight software developers who
can strike the balance between leading edge technology and practical
applications.  You'll be a member of a small team developing breakthrough
software applications for the next generation of mobile pen computers.

The positions require three to five years experience with C and a working
knowledge of object-oriented design and programming principles.  Experience
programming in a graphics environment, for Mac or Windows is a plus.
PenPoint experience is an extra plus, but not a requirement.

The ideal candidate will have had experience with creative product
development cycles and be focused on shipping great products.  Wheel spinners
and research-only folks need not apply.

To be considered for the position, please FAX your resume to aha! software
corporation at (415) 694-7457 or mail it to:

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        1685 Plymouth Street, Suite 100
        Mountain View, CA  94043

or send it via e-mail to 76630.1660@compuserve.com

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        aha! software corporation

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.pen
From: dwormuth@hstbme.mit.edu (David W. Wormuth)
Subject: PenSIL really works
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 15:54:17 EDT
Organization: Harvard Medical School
Followup-To: comp.sys.pen

First, I have no relationship with First Pen Systems, Inc. I am only a very
satisfied customer.

If any of you are having problems with the PenPoint UI Toolkit and/or wish
you could quickly put together sample documents, look at PenSIL from First
Pen Systems, Inc.

They have developed a "Res-Edit" for PenPoint that lets you draw in
PenPoint almost any of the UI Toolkit items that you want. Buttons, menus,
tables, etc. You have full access to the object heirarchy and can set
options on the created objects to your heart's content. These object (UI
Toolkit) know how to file state, so the documents you create can be used
for permanent storage.

Their objects are also exportable so you can draw your UI and then paste it
into your application. By setting the UI items appropriately, your code can
then use these items (via either a name search or the tag/msg protocols)

This is a great deal for only $169.

Their address:
First Pen Systems, Inc.
100 Otis Street, 4A
Northboro, MA 01532
508-393-9793 Voice
508-393-9756 Fax
CI$ 70312,3103

David W. Wormuth, MD                    Internet: dwormuth@hstbme.mit.edu
Decision Systems Group                     Voice: 617-732-7748
Brigham and Women's Hospital
75 Francis Street
Boston, MA 02115
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pen
From: danb@athena.mit.edu (Dan Brown)
Subject: Re: Context switch on pen... idea
Summary: actually, w4p's does.
Reply-To: t-danbr@microsoft.com
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 02:26:33 GMT

Actually, the Wacom 510 tablet and pen I use here at microsoft has a
button on the side, which you can press while you're inking; we just
implement it as the right button on the mouse.

In reality, it's terribly awkward; a switch might in some ways be
useful, but the fact remains that you really don't want to have to
flip some switch on your pen as you're inking.

Dan Brown
danb@athena.mit.edu forwards to t-danbr@microsoft.com
Software Testing Intern, Microsoft Windows for Pen Computing.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.pen