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From: n9312m@pnet16.cts.com (Et3 Panzica)
Subject: Re: IBM 5151 - Can anyone tell me what it is (?86)
Organization: People-Net [pnet16], NCTAMS EASTPAC
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 20:56:02 GMT

Ever thought 'bout opening her up and looking... It won't kill you!!

On the other hand, one of the computers I own is a IBM 5150 and was made
in 1985... Did they even have 286's then?!!
It is the original 8088 running at 4.77 MHZ (replaced the 8088 with a
NEC V20 for "improved performance") and works great as a fax server!

I suspect yours is the same with a possible BIOS change, or did yours come
with a hard drive??

I recommend opening her up and replacing the 8088 with a $6 NEC V20
to get what you can out of it (real simple operation).
---

` Who said that..? '
                                    Michael Vincent Panzica

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From: kna@po.CWRU.Edu (Khaled N. Ayyash)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Ati Ultra Pro
Date: 9 Nov 1992 17:41:20 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc12.ins.cwru.edu


I just purchased a Gateway 486-33V and I am having problems with the combination
of Excel 4.0 and the ATI Ultra pro.  I can not seem to print a graph that
appears to be fine on the screen without some lines or information disappearing
from the printout.  The same thing happens if I print a document from word 2.0. I also noticed that this only happens if I am using 1024*768 resolution.  If
I switch to VGA resolution, there is no problem with my printouts.  I am 
wondering if any one has the same problem or knows a solution for it.  I am
sure it is not my printer (HP deskjet 500) that is causing the problem,
because I had an IBM PC connected to it before I got the Gateway and every
thing worked fine.
	Any help is appreciated.  Thanks
From: Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Jim Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Atari track-ball question
Date: 4 Nov 92 03:51:25 GMT
Organization: Amiga BitSwap Central Dispatch

In a message dated Tue  3 Nov 92 13:11, Rmo@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (robert M.
wrote:
 RM>   Could anyone fill me in on what would be necessary (if it is even
 RM> possible?)
 RM> to interface a trak-ball from an old Atari 800 system to a PC?  
     
 RM> Thanks,
 RM> Bob Opalko
 RM> rmo@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu

The Atari trackball is a digital device. IMHO, to interface with a PC COM
port you would likely have to build electronics and write a driver that
would equal the cost of a PC trackball.


-- Via DLG Pro v0.995

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From: isc10085@nusunix1.nus.sg (NG YENG YONG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Can I use my XT's CGA card in my 486???
Date: 5 Nov 92 06:47:17 GMT
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Greg Ennis (93gke@williams.edu) wrote:
: I bought a 486 local bus system and now I can't afford a display card or
: monitor. Can I use the CGA card straight from my XT ?

	Sure, you can. Simply plug the card into any ISA Bus slot and
configure your bios to CGA Monitor. Simple as ABC.


Best regards,
Steve


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From: juang@spock.dis.cccd.edu (Juan Gascon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: The P5 will be called the Pentium or "Re-Pentium"
Date: 10 Nov 92 22:54:29 GMT
Organization: Coast Community College District, Costa Mesa, CA


	How about nicknaming it "Re-Pentium" if its not bugfree.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger)
Subject: Re: Does Adoptec refuse to support its SCSI I/F for end users?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:29:08 GMT

lainhart@odel.stg.TRW.COM (Mike Lainhart) writes:
>No! It's not true!  Adaptec end user support is horrid!  I had a 1742A
>that I struggled with for six weeks and spent over $50 on phone calls 
>to Adaptec user support --- MOSTLY ON HOLD and mostly just to leave my
>phone number to promises of being called back.  I WAS NEVER (NEVER!)
>CALLED BACK!  The only way I ever got to speak to a person at Adaptec
>was to complain loudly and demand to speak to a supervisor.  That works.
*----
I've seen enough reports like this that really make me wonder what's
going on.  Adaptec has been very good to me since I started using their
products many years ago (when the ACB-4000 was a current product).
They have sent me manuals gratis, copies of articles and technical
explanations.  An engineer even spent a half-hour explaining RLL to
me (at a technical level) when the first RLL PC controllers were
released.  My recent experiences have been no different.

I don't understand why some of us get great service and others report
getting none.  I do expect to have to play a little phone-tag at times,
and sometimes you have to talk to a couple of people to convince them
that you REALLY need somebody with more technical knowledge (this is
true with all companies I deal with).  But ultimately I've gotten
what I needed.
--
	Mike Berger
	Internet    berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: gary@vitello.ic.cmc.ca (Gary Braida)
Subject: GUI6000 video card performance
Reply-To: gary@vitello.ic.cmc.ca
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:44:33 GMT

Hello PC Users,

I have a 486DX machine with a GI6000 video card and a 17" NEC 5fG monitor all of 
which is running in the Windows 3.1 environment.  We are using the windows 3.1
drivers supplied with the GUI6000 video card, specifically the the driver which
supports 1024x960 resolution.  The problem is that when in this mode you can notice
a slight vibration or jitter of the screen which is very hard on the eyes.  If you
change the mode to say 800x600 things seem to work better.  The only problem is we
bought the thing so it could work at the higher resolutions.  Has anyone experienced
similar problems with the GUI6000 card?  Does anyone have any helpful hints or
suggestions?

Regards,

Gary Braida             |     Canadian       |       ******  *******  ******
email:  braida@cmc.ca   |  Microelectronics  |      *       *  *  *  *
phone:  (613) 545-2914  |    Corporation     |     ******  *     *  ******

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: glossop@seas.smu.edu (Dr Neal Glossop)
Subject: Storing A/D data on a solid state drive
Summary: I want to buffer data on a solid state card and download later to PC
Organization: School of Engineering and Applied Science
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 05:42:30 GMT

I want to collect a large amount of data (5 to 10 MB or more) on a stripped down
computer consisting of barely more than an A/D converter and a large amount
of fast memory (the data will be coming in fast).  I want to download this
later to a normal PC to analyze it.  The problem is that the stripped PC should 
be really small and mobile as it will be attached to a person to measure some
biomechanical stuff.  I was thinking of using a solid state drive, but the
biggest that I've seen is 2 Megs (SolidState Data Drives Inc.).  Any ideas?
This is to be used as an alternative to a telemetry type system.

Neil
glossop@seas.smu.edu


-- 
Neil Glossop
glossop@seas.smu.edu
From: trader@infopls.chi.il.us (Steve Kovack)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: esdi performance
Date: 12 Nov 92 06:00:09 GMT
X-Maildoor: WaflineMail 1.00r

Azrak's fingers blurted out at All
on the subject of "Re: esdi performance"

 >I've got an Adaptec track-caching controller (64k cache) and an 
 >older CDC 182MB drive, running on a 486SX-25 machine.
 
 >The benchmarks say the ESDI system is giving me about 550kb/sec
 >transfer rate -- the MFM system showed about 490kb/sec.

 Az> My Father's 386DX 20MHz with Western Digital ESDI controller goes at
 Az> 16ms and 550kb/sec also. You should be getting a little (or maybe a
 Az> lot) better performance than what you are. Maybe 650kb/sec.

The big thing with ESDI drives is the transfer rate of the drive
itself. I have an ESDI XT8760 Maxtor drive which is rated at 15MB/sec.
The early CDC 182 is a 10MB/sec drive. On my 386/33 with an Ultrastor
12F controller I will get a transfer rate of 1500kb/sec. Also what is
the speed of the system bus. If it's 8mhz that will make a difference.
I am operating the bus at 11mhz. Remember that the transfer rate is
a raw data rate, no consideration is made for the operating system or
the bus speed. On the 486SX/25 you might try raising the bus speed if
it's an option in your BIOS. It should help get closer to the raw data
rate.

l8r) Steve
aka: trader@infopls.chi.il.us


... Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do!
--- Blue Wave/QWK v2.10
                                                                                                                 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: scott@hpcvccl.cv.hp.com (Scott Linn)
Subject: Re: Ati Ultra Pro
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 21:46:28 GMT

kna@po.CWRU.Edu (Khaled N. Ayyash) writes:
: 
: I just purchased a Gateway 486-33V and I am having problems with the combination
: of Excel 4.0 and the ATI Ultra pro.  I can not seem to print a graph that
: appears to be fine on the screen without some lines or information disappearing
: from the printout.  The same thing happens if I print a document from word 2.0. I also noticed that this only happens if I am using 1024*768 resolution.  If
: I switch to VGA resolution, there is no problem with my printouts.  I am 
: wondering if any one has the same problem or knows a solution for it.  I am
: sure it is not my printer (HP deskjet 500) that is causing the problem,
: because I had an IBM PC connected to it before I got the Gateway and every
: thing worked fine.

Are you sure that this problem doesn't occur in 640x480 mode, too?

I have a GW2K 486DX266V, and a DJ500, and have seen the same problem.  It
occurs any time I use the Mach32 drivers in Windows.  The two apps I have
tried this out on (and both fail) are Microsoft Write and Word 2.0.  The
Mach32 drivers fail for all modes on my system (640x480, 800x600, etc.).  The
crystal font drivers work fine with printing to the DJ500, as do the
generic 8514a and VGA drivers.  According to GW, I need to get a new
DJ500 driver.

Scott Linn
scott@hpcvccl.cv.hp.com
From: 6500boo@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (William Bushing)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Micro Data Computers in Washington state
Date: 5 Nov 92 21:12:41 GMT
Distribution: comp

Anyone out there using a computer (33-486 preferably) from
Micro Data in Washington state? They use Aquarius mother- 
boards, TEAC floppies, Maxtor HDD's, Antec Diamond cases.
Everything sounds good based on components as far as I can
tell. Don't know anything about the company itself except
that they can't spell worth beans in their ads! I've sug-
gested spelling corrections each time I've called... of
course to paraphrase, what do you want... good grammar or
a good computer?

Any responses would be greatly appreciated.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
William W. (Boo) Bushing  |  Some people say I'm not playing 
6500boo@ucsbuxa.bitnet    |    with a full deck, but I only 
6500boo@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu  |    need four aces to win! 
bushing@lifesci.ucsb.edu  |      - Jonathan Winters 
Marine Biotechnology Lab   Univ. of Calif. Santa Barbara
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: Can I use my XT's CGA card in my 486???
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 17:55:15 GMT

In <1992Nov5.020445.22139@williams.edu> 93gke@williams.edu (Greg Ennis) writes:

>I bought a 486 local bus system and now I can't afford a display card or
>monitor. Can I use the CGA card straight from my XT ?

Sure.  Just don't try to plug it into one of the local bus slots.  I'm
curious, though.  Why buy local bus if you can't get the video board
that is the only thing that makes local bus worth doing?

-- 
"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
 in the real world."   -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: Josh Thayer <Joshua.L.Thayer@williams.edu>
Subject: How to tell SIMM speed (ns)?
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A72896A33F1C0540@jesup205_06.cc.williams.edu>
X-Xxdate: Thu, 12 Nov 92 23: 17:55 GMT
Organization: Williams College, Williamstown, MA
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 04:15:52 GMT


Probably a stupid question, but I don't know: I need to tell what the
speed rating is on a pair of SIMMs I took out of a dead machine. Is the
fact that their serial number ends in a "-7" mean that they're 70ns?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: yon@smltlk.cbm.dec.com (David A. Yon)
Subject: Re: Is Gateway a publicly held company?  I think I'll short some stock...
Reply-To: yon@smltlk.cbm.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 12:21:24 GMT


In article <1992Nov10.054810.28004@tc.cornell.edu>, chow@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Christopher Chow) writes:
>[Yet another Gateway horror story deleted]
>
>Amazing that people on the net still order from Gateway. This summer, 
>there were a whole slew of articles regarding problems with Gateway. True,
>they were written up as having the best reliability, etc, by PC Magazine
>this summer, but I had thought the general net.consensus reached mid-summer
>was that Gateway was growing too fast for their management ability, and that
>published article, being at least a couple of months old at the time
>of publication, was already inaccurate.
>

..and don't you find it amazing that for every horror story, 5-10 other
people speak up about how they had no problems.  The only problems I've
had with them (besides Telepath) is just how long I have to wait on
the phone.  I really wish they would fix that, but then again, I waited
on the phone to Microsoft for 25 minutes waiting for a sales person so
that I could *give* *them* *money*.  Lord knows what the wait is on the
Microsoft support lines.  The point is, Gateway is not the only place you
will wait on the phone for awhile.  At least it's toll free.

As for recent experience, I ordered a 340 meg drive from them three weeks
ago and got a quote of two weeks.  I called to check about two weeks later,
and the status person said, "Oh no, that probably won't ship for another
week or so".  I was pretty pissed, as I *really* needed the drive for some
work I was about to start.  I called again two days later to give them the
ultimatum of "ship it or cancel the order", only to find out that they had
already shipped the drive, and I came home to find the drive sitting at the
door.

The other reason people still buy from Gateway?  You can't beat the price.
Before I called them back to twist their arm on the drive, I called five other
places.  A 350 meg IDE drive could not be had for less than $670, Gateway's
price was $550.

--
David Yon
yon@caboom.enet.dec.com <--- use this address
From: dougw@ks25.chi.il.us (Doug Waldron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Need Help with Wang
Summary: Thats disgusting
Date: 11 Nov 92 19:01:35 GMT
Organization: R. R. Donnelley & Sons


Could you move this subject to alt.sex.perverted

Thanx
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger)
Subject: Re: Format 3.5 DD floppy as a HD, is it reliable?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:30:14 GMT

ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:

>In article <82956@ut-emx.uucp> slug@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Wowbagger The Infinitely Prolonged) writes:
>>PS/2's, for example, stopped checking for the existence of the second hole 
>>many years ago and just automatically format everything to 1.44 megs.  You
>>have to type in the parameters to format to 720K for single hole disks if you
>>want clones to be able to read them.

>One strike against PS/2s. You won't believe the number of disk
>recoveries we've had to do around here with students formatting 
>DD disks as HD, and these disks trashing themselves over time. 
*----
I don't think this is the case any longer.  A new PS/2-35 that I tried
recently differentiated between DD and HD disks all by itself.
--
	Mike Berger
	Internet    berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: harper@convex.com (David Harper)
Subject: Re: Colorado Jumbo 250MB Tape Streamer (8 Q's)
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 16:22:28 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

In article <1992Nov5.185630.21552@cbfsb.cb.att.com> feg@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (forrest.e.gehrke) writes:

>CMS has  announced a tape drive which works from the printer
>port.  This certainly as attraction from the point of view for
>sharing the drive with more than one PC, just as one can do
>with printers.  BTW, the printer does not seem affected by
>the tape drive.

After months of being on backorder I finally got my CMS Trakker unit this
past Friday (this is the parallel port version).  I have spent most of the
weekend evaluating the unit with somewhat mixed impressions.  The software
is okay (there's supposed to be a new version coming that also supports
Windows), the hardware seems solid (it was easy to instal. and has given
no hardware problems), but the performance is pitiful - I am seeing about
1.5 MB/min on a 25MHz 386 system.  I bought this unit mostly for the claimed
data rate of "up to 9.5 MB/min".  I plan to contact CMS Monday morning to
find out what's going on.  One thing that will affect it is the performance
of the parallel port (whether it's unidirectional, bidirectional or
enhanced).  Unfortunately, the software doesn't seem to recognize anything
but unidirectional; so far I've loaded the software on 5 systems, some of
which are supposed to have bidirectional ports.  If there is any interest,
I will follow up this post with a final review of this unit including any
resolution (or lack thereof) on the problems.

One bright side though - I bought 10 of the 2120 tapes from MEI (about $15
each in lots of 5) and they look very good - no problems formatting at all.
So far I have not had a single mention of anything being marked bad during
the formatting process so either these are incredibly good tapes or the CMS
software does not give any information
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: karel@cv.ruu.nl (Karel Zuiderveld)
Subject: Intel TurboCache module unreliable?
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 17:59:20 GMT
Organization: University of Utrecht, 3D Computer Vision Research Group

I'm currently using a Hauppauge 4860 board at 25 MHz. This EISA board
contains both a 486 and a 860 and runs flawlessly.

However, my board does not have any 2nd level cache - I'm using the
8kb of the 486 and that's it. The board supports the optional Intel
Turbo Cache 486 module, providing 128K cache.

When asking about this module, Hauppauge stated that they strongly
recommend against using it. They had encountered severe problems; they
stated that Intel had acknowledged that a problem existed.

So the basic question: is this indeed true? Who has positive or
negative experiences with the 485 board?

Karel


-- 
Karel Zuiderveld                            E-mail: karel@cv.ruu.nl
3D Computer Vision - Room E.02.222          Tel:    (31-30) 506682/507772
Academisch Ziekenhuis Utrecht               Fax:    (31-30) 513399
Heidelberglaan 100, 3584 CX Utrecht, The Netherlands
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: dhaliwa@ecf.toronto.edu (DHALIWAL BIKRAM SINGH)
Subject: ST-277R Formatting
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 08:23:11 GMT

In my AMI Bios I have set the ST-277R with an RLL controller to type
47 (USER CONFIG.).  I set :   
CYLINDERS= 820
HEADS= 6
WPCOMP= ? but I set it at 820 just like my ST251 MFM
LZ= 820
CAP= 62 MB

IS THIS RIGHT??

OK, I low-level format it, reporting the bad sectors on the disk.
I set the interleave to be 1 (is this optimalfor RLE?).
OK now it formatted the disk.
I boot from a floppy containing fdisk, format, command.com etc.
I use fdisk to create the primary partition.....THEN it gives me the error:
 
    runtime error R6003
    -integer divide by 0

And fdisk has died.  What is wrong with this drive. I have formated the same
drive under the MFM controller for 41 MB and it worked fine. 
 
-- 
 
.............................................
 Bikram Dhaliwal (dhaliwa@civ.toronto.edu) 
 Toronto        (dhaliwa@ecf.toronto.edu)
From: ted@isgtec.com (Ted Richards)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: ATI BBS?
Date: 8 Nov 92 14:12:44 GMT
Organization: ISG Technologies Inc. Mississauga Ont. Canada
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Kwun Han (cs011177@cs.brown.edu) wrote:
: 
: 	Does anyone know the number for ATI's BBS? 
: Rgds,
: :) Kwun Han
:  

416-756-4591

--
Ted Richards            ted@isgtec.com             [...!uunet.ca!isgtec!ted]
ISG Technologies Inc.   3030 Orlando Dr. Mississauga  Ont.  Canada   L4V 1S8
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: 6881300@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM
Subject: Re: 48 Re: Phoenix BIOS - How do you get to CMOS setup?
Organization: Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc.
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 14:42:02 GMT

>>------------------------- Original Article -------------------------
>>In article <1992Nov2.232531.5389@PA.dec.com>, reisert@sttng.mlo.dec.co(Jim Rei
>>
>>I acquired a 286 machine with Phoenix BIOS.  How do you get to the
>>CMOS setup screen?

>I no longer have my 286 with Phoenix BIOS so I don't know the version
>number. All I had to do was press <Ctrl-Alt-s> and it would pop up. There
>was also instructions printed on the screen during boot but I don't recall
>exactly what it said.

>  Allen Mulvey
>  mulvey@blurt.oswego.edu

Well ...
Actually, this may or may not work.  Better to hold down <Ctrl> and
<Alt> and tap <S> every second or so until the CMOS screen comes up.
My 286/Phoenix seems to have a keyboard buffering problem.

Cordially,                                      Lockheed Missiles & Space Co.
Roy Sette       rsette@lmsc.lockheed.com        P.O. Box 3504, B/182, O/82-10
                                                Sunnyvale CA 94088-3504

The text shown above is not guaranteed to be correct, nor does it reflect the
views of Lockheed Corp.
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