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From: marka@SSD.CSD.HARRIS.COM (Mark Ashley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: RAMpAT memory card
Date: 14 Dec 1992 12:49:25 GMT
Organization: Harris Computers Systems Division, Fort Lauderdale,FL
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: hcx1.ssd.csd.harris.com

I've seen this memory expansion card in the ads
but I saw it at the local CompUSA only lately.
It's made by Acculogic, if I remember right,
I can add 16Mb to my PC using 4 pieces of 4Mb 80ns simms.
Has anybody used this and is it any good ?
I'd like to hear good & bad comments.

My clone uses a proprietary memory card currently
with 2Mb expandable to 6Mb using DIP's. If I get
a new motherboard later, then I can not use
the DIP's in the new motherboard but I can
transfer the simms. So I'm deciding between
getting 4Mb worth of DIP's or 16Mb of simms plus RAMpAT.

I just got tipped off to this group's existence so if
it has been discussed before - well I didn't know. 8-)
Then perhaps somebody with a summary of previous 
comments can mail it to me.

Thanks. e-mail responses are preferable.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: joey@banzai.PCC.COM (The CPT Kid)
Subject: Hardware for sale
Organization: The People's Computer Company, Williston, VT
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 14:14:37 GMT

I have an IBM 5525 CPU, 20 5253 Terminals and 
4 5219 printers that I would like to sell... 
(it's a complete word processing type system including 
all documentation and such....)

Please Reply to ben@satyr.pcc.com or call Ben @ 802-864-7343

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: dcable@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dan Cable)
Subject: Re: What's the DEAL with IBM ValuePoint?
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 17:11:39 GMT

tmcreek@eos.ncsu.edu (Tobin M. Creek) writes:

>Exactly what's in your post...nothing.

>I looked into buying a ValuPoint monitor.  The first time I saw the actual
>unit in person, I nearly spewed all over the sales rep in revulsion.  They
>look like cheap [insert your favorite excrement here].  

>In fact, all of the ValuPoint stuff falls into this category.

I don't agree. You get what you pay for. What's different with the
ValuePoint stuff is that IBM is selling some lesser quality of display
monitors bundled with the systems but you can get their better ones if you
are willing to pay more. The computer itself is probably the best quality
product (not features) that you are likely to find. If you want to pay
cheap prices you will get lesser features with IBM but you certainly will
not get lesser quality.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: v923137@vms.ucc.okstate.edu
Subject: GAME PORT PINOUTS -  HERE YOU ARE !!
Organization: Oklahoma State University Computer Center
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 04:24:20 GMT



It seems there is some interest in the pin-outs of the standard DB-15 IBM-PC
compatible game port.  Well, here they are:

Pin              Signal
===              ======
1                +5VDC
2                Paddle #1 - Fire button/Joystick A
3                Paddle #1 - X Position/Joystick A
4                Ground
5                Ground
6                Paddle #2 - Y Position/Joystick A
7                Paddle #2 - Fire button
8                Ground
9                Ground
10               Paddle #3 - Fire button/Joystick B
11               Paddle #3 - X Position/Joystick B
12               Ground
13               Paddle #4 - Y Position/Joystick B
14               Paddle #4 - Fire button
15               +5VDC

Note:  If you look really close at the computer side of the plug, you will see
       that the pins are numbered on the receptacle.  PLEASE look at this
       before attempting to wire anything up to the game port to make sure
       your orientation is correct.

-Jason Worley


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: vvawh@convx1.lerc.nasa.gov (Tony Hackenberg)
Subject: Sound Blaster Pro + Gateway 2000 386/25
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 04:59:05 GMT


I purchased a Gateway 2000 80386 machine (25 Mhz) about a year ago.
Now I would like to upgrade it with a Sound Blaster Pro board.  Are
there any problems that I should be aware of concerning this upgrade?


-- 
Tony Hackenberg
NASA/Lewis Research Center M.S.142-2, 21000 Brookpark Rd., Cleveland, OH 44135
Internet: vvawh@convx1.lerc.nasa.gov  Phone: (216) 433-5201 (work)
Opinions are mine & do NOT represent any official position by my employer.
From: jeffp@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM (Jeffrey L Powell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Seagate & Maxtor Master/Slave Incompatability ?
Date: 19 Dec 92 21:17:47 GMT
Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.


Any clues why my Maxtor 7120a will not function as the master with
a Seagate 3120a slave ? Both perform well as the only drive in a 
single drive system and the Maxtor does work as a slave to the
Seagate.

Clues ?


Jeff Powell
jeffp@riverwhy.PEN.TEK.COM
From: ben@yenta.alb.nm.us (Ben Klausner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: SOTA FDC/IO card switch settings
Keywords: SOTA card switch settings
Date: 18 Dec 92 03:56:11 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department

I have a combined FDC/IO card from a company called SOTA Technologies. Its a
nice card, but I have lost/misplaced/eaten the documentation, particularly
the switch settings guide. Does any kind soul out there have a copy of this
that they could send/mail/fax me? Alternatively, does anyone have a
telephone number for the company? Thanks.


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From: byu@remus.rutgers.edu (Bob Yu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: HELP: HeadStart IBM XT computer
Date: 19 Dec 92 22:11:49 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


	Does anybody know a phone number or address for HeadStart
company?  I have some questions regarding HeadStart Explorer XT
computer.   Thank you in advance.

Bob.
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From: marka@SSD.CSD.HARRIS.COM (Mark Ashley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: ATI Ultra Pro
Date: 14 Dec 1992 16:46:37 GMT
Organization: Harris Computers Systems Division, Fort Lauderdale,FL
NNTP-Posting-Host: hcx1.ssd.csd.harris.com

I came in late to this thread about the Ultra Pro so if
you already have the answer can you just repeat it to me:

Does the Ultra Pro work at all with Windows 3.1 ?
I've got a Micronics 386-20MHz and hoping to get
an Ultra Pro and a NEC 3FG if it's sure to work.

thanks. e-mail responses are preferable


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From: jorourke@ocf.berkeley.edu (Jason O'Rourke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: How to assemble a pc? Help.
Keywords: computer assemble
Date: 14 Dec 92 07:17:58 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: whirlwind.berkeley.edu

It is definitely beneficial to know your computer inside out, but
the savings in building it yourself vary depending on where you 
live.  In the Bay Area, it is often just as well to buy from vendors.
In other parts of the country, who knows.

The problems is in subtle uncompatibilities.  But if you are sure
about the parts, you can build a custom system for about the same
price as at a shop.  You may not save money, but you do have the
choice of video and hard drives and monitors that you might not
have gotten.

If you do it, stick to reliable parts.  Since you are on your own
for support, it's just to avoid problems.  While you still have a
warranty on most parts, you have to deal with the trouble.  A dealer
would simply replace it, and do it himself.

Jason O'Rourke
Center for EUV Astrophysics
jor@cea.berkeley.edu
From: god@hale.cts.com (David J. Calabrese)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: two video cards on one PC
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 02:54:38 PST
Organization: Hale Telecommunications Inc.

knw7719@ultb.isc.rit.edu (K.N. Waterman) writes:

> Hello,
> 
> I need some info on how video cards are addressed in clones.
> Can I put two video cards (either the same or different) in one
> computer?  What can I expect.
> 
> What about color or mono??
> 
> Has anyone experienced this type of problem.
> 
> I need to show the same screen on two monitors?
> any help at all would be nice
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Ken W.

 
If all you need to do is show the same screen on two monitors,
and if they're not that far away, and okay, if you don't mind
them looking just slightly dimmer than normal, is to make
the proper cable.
 
Analog RGB is a pretty simple affair, and you can literally
tap a second connector off of the first cable.  I've done this
without many problems such as sync or interference.
 
Get a nice clear pin-out of the connector on your VGA card,
and the connectors on the monitors you wish to hook up.  Then,
grab some wires, a soldering iron, and an extra connector
and you are go!
 
Good luck, and don't blow anything up.  Remember, if this
doesn't work, it's not my fault...
 
 
* david j. calabrese *
 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: gilem@aix.rpi.edu (Michael R. Gile)
Subject: Re: ATI Mach 32 Live Video hardware
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:38:01 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.003547.1237@rhrk.uni-kl.de> GLO92420@acuvax.acu.edu (Ohlhausen Gaylan Leon) writes:
>I have read several articles (on the net and in print) that state that the Mach
>32 chip supports hardware decompression of windows AVI (Audio Video Interleave
>- Video for Windows) but I have not been able to find the drivers.  Is this
>actually true?  If so, where can I find these drivers?  If the drivers do not
>exist, how long until they do?

I would like to know this too, please send info to me by e-mail, so I don't missit.   Thanks

Mike
gilem@rpi.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: VGA on XT
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:52:49 GMT

In article <1992Dec6.183016.21562@cs.odu.edu> thurs_j@fog.cs.odu.edu (Jason Thurston) writes:
>In article <1992Dec5.032120.16230@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> dcable@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dan Cable) writes:
>>deng@wright.seas.ucla.edu (Christopher H. Deng) writes:
>>>use VGA on XT.  I mean if I got a 8-bit VGA card, will that
>>>work.  How would I set my DIP switches?  The DIP only goes up
>	(text edited for brevity)

>>Yes you can. The dip switches need only be set for EGA and the VGA board
>>will work fine. Good luck finding an 8 bit VGA card. 

>I know a Tseng ET-4000 worked nicely when I had it in my old XT
>(Leading Edge-Model D). Granted, it is SVGA, and maybe a bit expensive
>for some, but it will work.


Theres all kinds of cheap VGA cards out there now. The Oak ones
go for about $50 or so.




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From: ti@bazooka.amb.org (Ti Kan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.intel,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: 486SLC chip.... what it it?
Date: 16 Dec 92 08:15:46 GMT
Reply-To: ti@bazooka.UUCP (Ti Kan)
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Organization: AMB Research Labs, Sunnyvale, CA.

In article <Bz89I7.23u@hfglobe.intel.com> sting@hfglobe.intel.com (Joe Bennett) writes:
>
>As for why the 486SLC by Cyrix will not run NeXTStep, I think
>something should be considered:
>
>NeXTStep is the first, to the best of my knowledge, 32 bit
>anything for the general PC market since Cyrix and AMD started
>their clone operations.  I don't believe that Cyrix could have
>possibly tested 32 bit stuff adequately, because there was very
>little of it out there, and they were aiming for the entry level
>market as well.

What are you talking about?  Many flavors of BSD, SVR3 or SVR4 UNIX
for the PC architecture are true 32-bit (this includes BSDI, 386BSD,
Linux, SCO, ISC, Dell, Consensys, Microport, UHC, USL, Altos....
need I go on?).  I have successfully installed and run both SCO
and USL SVR4.2 Destiny on Cyrix 486DLC-based systems.

>My feeling is, they booted up DOS, Windows, probably a flight
>simulator and a spreadsheet, and said, "It's compatible" (okay,
>I'm sure the tests were more involved than that, but that's the
>general idea.)

Maybe this is true for some motherboard vendors, but the Cyrix CPU
is, to the best of my knowledge, 100% compatible with the Intel
486 as far as software is concerned.  I have run many stress tests
under UNIX on the Cyrix chip, with and without the internal cache
enabled, and I have not been able to find a compatibility or
functionality problem.

>Now when Next ported their OS to the 486, they probably had to
>do some tweaking to their compilers.  This probably meant getting
>an Intel 486 programmer's reference manual to do it.  After fixing
>a few bugs (either due to something undocumented in the manuals,
>documented incorrectly, etc) they got the OS functional.  These
>nondocumented/incorectly documented things could be a partial
>reason for what's causing NeXTStep not to run on the Cyrix chip.

There are many "probably"s in your conjecture, and they are just that.
I would conjecture that NeXT simply didn't have the resources to do 
exhaustive testing on the Cyrix and therefore will not support
an untested platform.  Seems pretty reasonable to me... but, this
doesn't mean that NextStep will not run on a Cyrix.  Has anyone
actually tried it?

>I really wouldn't be too surprised if other true 32 bit code for
>the x86 family also had problems on the Cyrix part.

Like I mentioned above, the Cyrix chip runs "true 32-bit code" just
fine.

-Ti
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: umokasev@phoenix.oulu.fi (Vesa Komulainen)
Subject: S3 incompatilibity with Nec Multisync II?
Organization: University of Oulu, Finland
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 23:07:12 GMT


I have had plenty of problems with an inexpensive S3 graphics
adapter (MVGA-S3C911). I was given the adapter on trial but I need
to return it soon unless I buy it, so I could really use some quick
solutions!

The problem is that whichever high resolution video mode I use the
screen behaves very oddly. The Windows logo is typically displayed
OK, but when Windows starts showing it is badly scrambled:
characters missing, extra characters, scrambled colors. In some
modes the screen goes blank after the Windows logo and I have to
reset my computer.

I assume the culprit might be my monitor, a Nec Multisync II.
However, I have set the DIPs on the S3 adapter for an interlaced
mode and my Nec has no difficulty working properly when I use my
Video 7 1024i in 1024x768, for instance. There should be nothing
wrong with the adaptor itself, as it worked OK when I tried it in
another computer today (a 16" Eizo 9070).

So anyone who can confirm that a Multisync II is out of question
for S3 operation or can suggest other solutions, please e-mail
your replies to me urgently.


Vesa Komulainen
umokasev@phoenix.oulu.f
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: Where the mac really wins
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:43:01 GMT

In article <ibhan.723754723@husc10> ibhan@husc10.harvard.edu (Ishir Bhan) writes:

>>The whole Macintosh mentality reminds me of the touchy-feely Montessori
>>elementary education I was forced to endure.  I'm tired of all this 
>>nonsense about "using what you learn with one application with another
>>application".  About all Excel and Illutrator have in common is file
>>save/load, print, and font selection.  They are two different types of
>>applications, and doing anything beyond the tiny set of things they have
>>in common in either requires knowlege about the particular application.  
>
>They are different programs.  However, the interface is consistant.  You
>clearly failed to understand what the point of this was.  The point is
>that if you learn one word processor, most commands should be similar to
>another one.  Likewise for a graphics program.  I find that because of
>this, I can use many programs on the Mac that I'd never touched before
>fairly well.  Not so with Windoze and DOS.

Right. I've got MacDraw II down pat. Done lots of work in it. So
I fire up Illustrator. No problem eh! !!!!!!!WRONGO!!!!! After getting
enormously frustrated I went back and spent a couple hours reading 
the manual. The two programs work so differently it makes a mockery
of what you've just written.

>I've
>never seen a lock on the menu bar.  This just proves you don't know much
>about the Mac.  Why don't you learn how to use one, use one for a while,
>and then get back to us with a valid opinion.

I'm beginning to wonder how often _you_ use macs. You've never seen the 
tiny little padlock on the window bar? Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.....








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From: rassilon@infopls.chi.il.us (Michael Quintero)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: HP DESKJET CARTRIGE REFIL
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 19:11:51 CST
X-Maildoor: WaflineMail 1.00r


Does anyone know how to refill a high capacity Deskjet cartridge?
I've got a syringe, but what's the recommended ink?  Thanks in
advance.

Mike Quintero ( rassilon@infopls.chi.il.us )

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: kamp@ecf.toronto.edu (KAM PAUL PING-YAN)
Subject: Re: ATI is making me mad
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 19:20:24 GMT

In article <92345.235526COP80196@UCF1VM.BITNET> Bill Laird <COP80196@UCF1VM.BITNET> writes:
>It really burns my ass that ATI is playing these kind of games. After
>promising os/2 drivers "real soon now", and then pushing back the date
>to 2Q '93, one has to wonder about buying ATI products in the future.
>
>Bill

And the ATI office is 5 minutes walk away from IBM Canada.  Hmmm...
Maybe Bill Gates is a major shareholder?


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: sdaveyj@cc.curtin.edu.au
Subject: B&W Digitiser Help!
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 00:44:06 GMT


Hello,

Does anyone know of a Video Digitiser for the PC which can capture
a sequence of frames (6 per second or so) in black and white, into
Ram or Harddisc for processing later.

From what we have heard the video blaster cannot do this.

If you can help us, please Email me as I don't use this newsgroup
regularly.

           Thank you


             John Davey

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: bwc@MicroUnity.Com (Bryan Chin)
Subject: gateway 4dx2-66V
Distribution: world
Reply-To: bwc@MicroUnity.com
Organization: MicroUnity Systems Engineering, Inc.
Date: 17 Dec 92 00:08:49


In scanning the past 1400 or so articles in this newsgroup, it is apparent
that there are many gateway customers out there.

I'm considering purchasing a 4dx2-66v.
Any comments from happy or unhappy gateway customers would be greatly
appreciated.  Email responses are preferred.  I can post a summary if
there is sufficient interest.

My apoligies if this has been discussed before (as it most certainly has).

thanks

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MicroUnity Systems Engineering
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From: x9999bvj@maple.circa.ufl.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Generating interrupts w/ parallel port
Date: 18 Dec 92 00:04:47 GMT
Reply-To: X9999BVJ@oak.circa.ufl.edu
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Organization: Center for Instructional and Research Computing Activities


I'm trying to write a bidrectional communications software program
for the PC.  It needs to use the 4-bit input and 5-bit i/o registers
to receive data.  Supposedly I can use an "active low" signal on
ACK to generate an interrupt if bit 4 of the control register is
set on.  I can't get this to generate the interrupt....any ideas
or pointers to code?  Please respond via e-mail.

Brian
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware