HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: trader@infopls.chi.il.us (Steve Kovack)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: sb pro               
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 92 08:46:59 CST
X-Maildoor: WaflineMail 1.00r

Rod Byrnes's fingers blurted out at All
on the subject of "Sb pro"

 RB> I'm contemplating buying a 486 with SB Pro and a CD-ROM. I believe
 RB> that SB connects to the CD-ROM with a SCSI interface. If this is so,
 RB> could I place other SCSI devices such as hard disks on the same
 RB> controller? -- 
 RB> Rod Byrnes

 Rod, the SB Pro uses a proprietary interface. It is not SCSI compatible.

 Steve Kovack
 aka trader@infopls.chi.il.us 


... When DOS grows up it wants to be OS/2.......NOT!!
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From: smithbm@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Azrak)
Subject: Re: ESDI performance
Organization: Clarkson University
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 23:05:57 GMT

jra@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (John Ackermann x 2966) writes:

>What kind of performance (throughput) is typical for ESDI drives?  I've
>got an Adaptec track-caching controller (64k cache) and an older CDC
>182MB drive, running on a 486SX-25 machine.

>The seek time is very good -- something like 16ms according to all my
>benchmarks -- but the throughput isn't much better than my old MFM
>controller and drive with 1:1 interleave.  The benchmarks say the ESDI
>system is giving me about 550kb/sec transfer rate -- the MFM system
>showed about 490kb/sec.

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

I also know people here at Clarkson with 286 8MHz machines and MFM
controllers can get 450kb/sec, so no matter how you look at it, ESDI
is going quite slow. If a 286-8 can get 450kb/sec, a 386DX-20 should be
getting 800kb/sec and your machine should be getting 1000kb/sec.

(Yes, the drive is interleaved at 1:1, which was calculated to be
the most optimal)

>Do these benchmarks understate the performance of my system, do I have
>something wrong, or is there really no advantage to ESDI?

Beats me. If you find out, please tell me.  :)

>-- 
>John R. Ackermann, Jr.        Law Department, NCR Corporation, Dayton, Ohio
>(513) 445-2966		      John.Ackermann@daytonoh.ncr.com
>Packet Radio: ag9v@n8acv      tcp/ip: ag9v@ag9v.ampr [44.70.12.34]

- Brian  (smithbm@craft.camp.clarkson.edu)
From: sms@cs.utexas.edu (Stephen Mark Sanderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Help...memory flakiness...system "forgets" 3 meg
Date: 13 Nov 1992 12:34:36 -0600
Organization: U Texas Dept of Computer Sciences, Austin TX
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: notrees.cs.utexas.edu

I have a 386-33 clone system with a persistent problem:  at odd times, it
reports that it has only 1 meg installed, rather than the 4 meg that's REALLY
in there.  The problem usually works as follows: the system freezes, and
when I reboot, it reports that memory size is incorrect; that there's only 
one meg.  I can "fix" it by inserting a memory board with a few K onboard,
and the increase in mem seems to kick the system out of it's "forgetful"
state, whereupon it "remembers" that there's 4 meg installed.  Problem
solved - for now.  This happens at random intervals, usually after an hour
or more on constant use, but not always.  Sometimes it happens when I first
turn the system on, and other times I can use the system all day with no
problems...anyone got some idea what the &%$#! is wrong?  I've ripped out
everything but the essential cards, made sure all the cards/chips were well
seated, removed and reinstalled the memory simms, etc.  Sometimes doing all
this solves the prob <until the next time>, but usually not.  Usually I have
to pull the memory board trick, or wait for it to "remember" on its own...
	If you have ANY ideas, please let me know...I'm considering just
buying a bare mbd and xferring the CPU and cache, but that's a little
extreme...any help would be great
-- 
No matter how awesome your computer system is today, *   Steve Sanderson
in a month it will be overshadowed by something      *   sms@cs.utexas.edu
much faster and a lot cheaper.  (depressing, eh?)    *   U of Texas, Austin
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: kim@uful07.phys.ufl.edu (Jaewan Kim)
Subject: local bus vedio?
Organization: University of Florida, Gainesville
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 17:19:50 GMT

-- 
Jaewan Kim at the University of Florida Physics department
internet address: kim@uful07.phys.ufl.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: paul@tct.com (Paul Levin)
Subject: Re: How can I low-level format IDE drive ?
Organization: TC Telemanagement, Clearwater, FL
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 14:14:10 GMT

According to pauls@css.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth):

>Ach cut it out already!  IDE drives are tricky to format.  If you don't
>know what you're doing, and you don't have all the parms, don't try it.
>But don't start by thinking it's going to destroy the drive.  For all of
>you people out there who have "destroyed" your IDE drives and are ready
>to throw them away, feel free to mail them to me; I'll have them working
>in an hour or so.

Will you then keep them or return them ??  Just kidding with you.  
Sorry for using up bandwidth on this, I just couldn't help myself.
-- 
From:  Paul Levin   paul@count.tct.com   813-532-2239 (work, 9-5 EST)
    --> Jesus loves you, and died for you; thank Him today. <--
From: csc2mxs@cabell.vcu.edu (Marko Siladin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: (none)
Date: 9 Nov 1992 10:19:48 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu


Scott Linn writes:

> Are new drivers available?

I've heard rumers on USENET that ATI will have new drivers by the
end of the year. But these are RUMORS. No official news that I've
heard of. We'll see.
...Marko
From: isc10085@nusunix1.nus.sg (NG YENG YONG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 15/24 bit Color Questions...
Date: 9 Nov 92 03:30:28 GMT
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Mike Battersby (ins132g@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au) wrote:
: 	Lately I've noticed (and its hard not to thesedays) that people
: are tending to move away from 256 color displays and into displays which
: have more bits of color, and basically I I'm extremely interested in
: such video cards.
: 
: 	Now, I know about the Sierra Hi-Color DACs, and I can buy a
: et4000 based clone card and plug in one of these DACs and get 15bit
: colour with a minimum of fuss and cost. What I want to know is:
: 
: 	Is there a VESA standard for Hi-Color modes, and if so is
: there a program for the et4000 cards to provide compatability with
: this? Also can Windows 3.1 use the Hi-Color modes?
: 
: 	Mostly what I'm interested in finding out about though, is
: the availability and type of 24 bit cards:
: 
:       *	Is there a DAC you can plug in for 24bit color as with Hi-Color?
:       *	Considering I dont need a graphics accelerator, and am trying
:       	to minimise cost (arent we all), what sort of 24 bit cards are
:         around?
:       *	Is there a VESA standard for 24bit color? Which boards support it?
:       *	Is there windows 3.1 support for 24bit color?
:       *	Is 24bit color worth the effort over Hi-Color, considering that
: 	I'm not using it for commercial purposes, but for my own amusement
: 	value and sense of aesthetics?

	Recently, I bought a ET4000 Chipset SVGA Card that supports
HiColor 32K, 64K in 800x600 and 24-Bit in 640x480 and 256 colors in
1024x768. It has drivers for most applications as well as Windows 3.1.
But the 24-Bit mode is only supported in Windows. So Only windows
applications can access this mode. It is VESA compliant.

	For the 24-Bit mode, I hardly use it now, but maybe in the near
future I need to scan in true-color images and add into my documents or
presentations. Why not just invest a bit more for the future. It is
definitely worth the money. I am now very happy with the card and
monitor that I had.

	By the way, it does not come with any graphics accelerator.



Best regards,
Steve


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=  Ng Yeng Yong, Steve                     =   Life is short,             =
=  ISC10085@NUSUNIX1.NUS.SG                =       Play Hard,             =
=  1st Year, Computer Science              =            Work Hard,        =
=  Department of Information System        =                 Have Fun.    =
=  and Computer Science (DISCS)            =   So, let our hair down      =
=  National University of Singapore (NUS)  =      and have lots of fun.   =
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Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:29479 comp.periphs.printers:3272
From: lance@hartmann.austin.ibm.com (Lance Hartmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Experiences with PostScript option on Epson ActionLaser II?
Summary: Poster desires comments on PostScript option for Epson laser printer.
Keywords: epson actionlaser printer postscript
Date: 10 Nov 92 16:21:57 GMT
Reply-To: lance%hartmann.austin.ibm.com@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com
Followup-To: poster
Organization: IBM, Austin

If anyone has ANY experiences with the PostScript option available
for the Epson ActionLaser II laser printer, I'd like to hear from you.
Performance?  Printer RAM requirements?  Interface issues with Windows?
OS/2 2.0?

E-mail is preferred and I'd be more than happy to post summaries.

Thanks to all in advance,
Lance Hartmann (lance%hartmann.austin.ibm.com@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com)
               Yes, that IS a '%' (percent sign) in my network address.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: moore@iastate.edu (Brian J Moore)
Subject: Re: Is Gateway a publicly held company? I think I'll short some stock...
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:35:53 GMT

In <1992Nov10.054810.28004@tc.cornell.edu> chow@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Christopher Chow) writes:

>In article <TIM.92Nov9180806@coors.boxhill.com> tim@boxhill.com (Timothy Jones) writes:
>>I'm totally fed up.  I'm a little new to the PC market (I work mostly with
>>Suns and other UNIX workstations) and am *appalled* by the customer service I
>>have received from Gateway.  I wonder if all the PC mail order houses treat
>>their customers this poorly...  I guess a Sun salesperson who sells machines
>>costing $20K a piece cares a little more about the individual customer.
>>

>[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,

Well I didn't have much of a choice.  I needed a memory board, and since
my machine was from Gateway, I had to order from them.  Had I just been
ordering simms, I would have cancelled the order.

-- 
   ________________________________________________________________________
  /                                  /                                    /
 /  Brian J. Moore                  /                  moore@iastate.edu /
/__________________________________/____________________________________/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: tsen0001@student.tc.umn.edu ()
Subject: Mitsubishi BBS phone numbers?
Summary: mitsubishi bbs phone number
Organization: University of Minnesota
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 06:31:05 GMT

Does anyone have the current Mitsubishi BBS phone number?  I called
310-324-3092 which is disconnected.  Is the BBS still available?

Thanks in advance.

-Maoee
From: gt7691c@prism.gatech.EDU (Jay Lofstead (gt7691c))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: video cards and 16megs of ram
Date: 13 Nov 92 01:17:47 GMT
Organization: Miskatonic University

Is there a problem with cards other than the ati ultra (was that it?)
when a machine has 16 megs of ram and an ISA bus?  I am trying to
decide which video card to buy for a 486-50 with 16 megs of ram, but
do not want to run into a problem with overlapping memory areas.
Any help would be appreciated.
-- 
Jay Lofstead                                Dare to be weird!
ARPA: gt7691c@prism.gatech.edu      Make the world an interesting place!
uucp: ...!gatech!prism!gt7691c
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: kwuerfl@biber.cosy.sbg.ac.at (Klaus Wuerflinger)
Subject: Help on Modem-Card HIDEM
Keywords: Modem
Organization: University of Salzburg / Austria
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 11:20:34 GMT

Could anyone send me some info about a modemcard called HIDEM (for PC  
ofcourse)?!? I have got 2 of them at home and no manual!

The most interesting things I would like to know are:

	* How to place the jumpers to make it work correctly
	* Is there any software and, if not, at which port-address is the  
	  card located (till now the card sometimes overrid the 1st serial  
	  port (depending on how I plugged the jumpers [just trying :-) ]))

Also if there is no particular help, it  would be nice to get ANY  
information!

Thanks,
		Klaus.
From: csc2mxs@cabell.vcu.edu (Marko Siladin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Gateway 2k LB Brief problem -solution (patch)
Date: 7 Nov 1992 17:20:12 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

Hi!
I talked to a Gateway 2000 technitian today about the Run time error
that happens under Brief on the new LB systems. He gave me the following
patch. It seems to be a problem in the interprocess communication area. After
this patch U won't be able to run multiple instances of Brief nor macros that
use this feature will not work. He assured me that all internal Brief macros
don't use this feature. Here is the patch:
        Use the standard way to change exe files with DOS debug.
                1. Make backup of b.exe
                2. Rename b.exe to i.e b.dat
                3. debug b.dat <CR>
                4. s cs:0 ffff f0 04 00 00<CR>
                5. as a return from debug you will receive an offset
                   where this sequencd has been found (lets say you get
                   1234 - carefull we are talkin hex numbers here)
                6. e 1234<CR>
                7. 0<CR>
                8. e 1235<CR>
                9. 0<CR>
               10. w<CR>
               11. rename b.dat to b.exe 
 
This worked in my case. I hope it will help someone else too.
...Marko
 

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From: noecker@seq.uncwil.edu (Scott Noecker)
Subject: Re: Colour scanner (which should I buy)?
Organization: Univ. of North Carolina @ Wilmington
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 06:49:38 GMT

>The HP ScanJett IIc is good.  Comes with Omnipage for OCR (at least ours 
>did).  No problems yet.

I use the IIc at work, but find Omnipage somewhat unsatisfactory,
is there a better OCR someone can recommend or what is the latest
version number of Omnipage?


-- 
 noecker@seq.uncwil.edu      | Assume nothing.
                             | relax, anticipate, and keep an open mind.
 noeckes@sct60a.sunyct.edu   | 32bit apps now! OS/2 it!
    -Scott Noecker-          | "Let's get Dangerous!" -Darkwing Duck
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Subject: <None>
From: wayman@pa621a.inland.com
Date: 6 Nov 92 09:10:19 CDT
Organization: Inland Steel Company, East Chicago, IN
Nntp-Posting-User: zaikos
From: dfh@dwroll.att.com (D461-David_F_Haertig(Dave)83040)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Monitor screen damaged by Magnet
Date: 9 Nov 92 22:41:12 GMT
Reply-To: dfh@dwroll.att.com
Originator: dfh@dwroll

From article <1992Nov09.202601.12715@bmerh85.bnr.ca>, by bmutas@bnr.ca (Bryan Utas):
> My five year old son decided to see what would happen if he placed
> a magnet on my SVGA CTX monitor.

Well, I've heard of degaussers ... but it sounds like your son found
himself a "gausser".  Does your monitor have a degauss button?  Mine
doesn't, but I seem to remember that if I power it down for a while
(5 minutes?  1 hour? ???) it will degauss itself when it is turned
back on.  I don't remember if I read this in my manual or if it was
throw at me by a salesdroid just trying to make a sale.  Anyway, you
might try it - it couldn't hurt.

Dave Haertig
haertig@att.com
From: davei@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Mr D Ingles)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Wanting Info on HP 500C Deskjet!
Date: 5 Nov 92 16:21:23 GMT
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.

In article <c5h1nm@rpi.edu> gilem@aix.rpi.edu (Michael R. Gile) writes:

>>Well I have used one.  It is sloooooooooooooooow.  It doesn't give that
>
>have you ever used a $8000 textronix solid ink printer?
>All color printers are slow (at least this year)

Nope, but I've used a Calcomp A3 colour printer and it will print an A3 page
in about 5 mins compared with the Deskjet 500C's 1 hour.

I also used to look after / modify greyscale photo-plotters which used to print
a 10 * 11 " image at 300 dpi in 256 shades of grey in 25 minutes.

Davei
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM
Subject: How do CPU speeds compare?
Organization: Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc.
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 21:07:31 GMT

   Greetings to all in net.land:
   My wife and I are constantly jockeying for computer time.  In order to make
a happier marriage, it's time to bite the bullet and buy another computer.
I'm looking to purchase a system in the $1,800 - $2,200 range.  Ideally that
would include a CD-ROM.  Mostly, we use the computer for games, and also for
a few Windows-based applications (mostly WordPerfect 5.1 and a few other
Windows-based games).  We also use it for communications (but we already have
an extra modem, and my existing machine has a 14,400 fax/modem already).
   What to do?  I want the best performance within that price range.  It seems
that I can either buy a faster CPU (486DX/50 perhaps) with cheap video and
less RAM (perhaps 4 MB), or I can buy a slower CPU (386DX/40 or 486SX/25) with
faster video and more RAM (perhaps 8 MB).  I don't know which would be better
in my situation.  I have a hunch that the better video would be preferable
since cheap video wastes the added performance of a faster CPU anyway.
   In light of that, which is better: a 386DX/40 or a 486SX/25?  I've heard
the 386/40 is (ever so) slightly faster but that the 486SX is more desirable
(and about $50 more) since it's easily upgradeable.  I envision my system as
follows:
          * 386DX/40 or 486SX/25 motherboard
          * 8 MB RAM
          * 1024x768 SVGA 14" non-interlaced monitor (.28)
          * fast video card with 1 MB VRAM
          * CD-ROM drive
          * 1.2 and 1.44 MB floppies
          * 210 (+/- 5 or 10) MB hard drive
          * Sound card and speakers

   Can anyone come up with a better configuration in the $2,000 range for a
machine that is primarily a game player but also runs Windows on occasion?
Oh, and I should add that we now have a 386DX/20 machine with 8 MB RAM and
cheap video.  We find its performance acceptable (for now, but I'm unsure
about the future).

   Also, does anyone expect the 2.88 MB floppy drive to become standard any
time soon?  Would it be worth the extra money to get that instead of the 1.44
floppy, even if I do only use 1.44 disks until the 2.88 disks come down in
price?  Any chance that software will start being placed on 2.88 MB disks in
the next couple of years?  Sorry for the million questions, but thanks for
answering as many of them as you can.

Tim Irvin   j056600@lmsc5.is.lmsc.lockheed.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: chiu@alumni.berkeley.edu (David Chiu)
Subject: Re: Seiko Monoitors?
Summary: Seiko CM1450
Originator: chiu@alumni
Organization: University of California Society of Electrical Engineers
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 03:45:35 GMT

In article <1dpg3dINNo6c@agate.berkeley.edu> vincent@garnet.berkeley.edu (Vincent J. Lee) writes:
>Are these monitors any good? Seiko NI.

Got a Trinitron tube in it. No problem so far. (Amazing what a little hagglin'
will get you too :)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: jeremy@cheetah.inmos.co.uk (Jeremy Thorp)
Subject: Re: Re - Trident 8900 Windows 3.1 drivers
Organization: INMOS Limited, Bristol, UK
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 11:01:01 GMT

Have Trident produced 8900 drivers for Windows 3.1 that allow DOS graphics apps to run in
DOS boxes? The drivers I have allow text apps to work. The mouse works too in DOS
boxes, but I can't run graphics apps inside DOS boxes.

-- 
Jeremy Thorp, INMOS Ltd, 	|	jeremy@inmos.com
1000 Aztec West, Almondsbury, 	|	jeremy@inmos.co.uk
Bristol, BS12 4SQ, UK.		|	
Tel.  +44 454 616616    Fax. +44 454 617910
The above is the personal opinion of the author,
and does not necessarily reflect INMOS policy.
From: kna@po.CWRU.Edu (Khaled N. Ayyash)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Gateway Flat screen 15" monitor
Date: 11 Nov 1992 01:09:19 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc12.ins.cwru.edu


	I have a Gateway CrystalScan 14" 1024 NI monitor and I am thinking
of upgrading to their 15" Flat Screen Monitor.  Is it worth the upgrade
and does it provide edge to edge viewing?  I like to work with 800*600
resolution and my current monitor shrinks the screen by half when I am
using the 800*600 resolution.  Does the flat screen monitor do the same
thing?  If you have anything to say about Gateway, I'd like to hear it.
I just bought my system and I am not sure if I made a wise choice!!!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware