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From: carl@Cayman.COM (Carl Heinzl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: are EISA & local bus mutually exclusive?
Date: 3 Oct 92 04:46:03 GMT
	<1992Oct1.133232.12115@microware.com> <91491@netnews.upenn.edu>
Organization: Cayman Systems Inc., Cambridge, MA
In-reply-to: sergei@upenn5.hep.upenn.edu's message of 2 Oct 92 21:21:44 GMT
bcc: carl


>  Let's see.( 19200 bit/sec /8 bits) * 32 ports = 76800 byte/sec.

19.2k - yuk --- think big... I would prefer to have a network
connection at *least* as fast as ethernet.  Once you're talking about
having a fiber connection to remote services you'll want much more
than than the miniscule (relatively speaking) transfer rates that
we're talking about.  Hell, if I want to run my computer as part of
the "local" network at work, X is barely useable over a 56k line
(which I don't have (yet).  Of course at that point I'll want at least
32 meg (probably more like somewhere in the 100's) memory so I don't
have to use the disk except for a very small fraction of the
information that I can save to examine later...

Of course this isn't available today, at least not widely...

-Carl-
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From: bozze@shark.bad.se (Bo Arnoldson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Interfacing a Mountain tape streamer
Date: 2 Oct 92 11:07:36 GMT
Organization: B.A.D., Sweden

Hi netters,

A friend of mine bought himself a Mountain tape streamer with a PS2 model 30
discette drive connector.

How does he connect this tape streamer to a standard IBM PC floppy disc
controller connector?

Rumours say that Mountain has a converter.

He has not been able to locate a Mountain reseller in sweden.

The Mountain tape streamer device (TD8000) has 9 jumpers, but no info was
included about what these switches affect. Jumper bank P11 (4 jumpers)
P9 (5 jumpers) exist on the card.

Any info appreciated...

Please, email him at magic@e.kth.se

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bozze@shark.bad.se (Bo Arnoldson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: root@kilowatt.uucp (Kilowatt admin)
Subject: Re: Definition.
Reply-To: root@kilowatt.UUCP (Kilowatt admin)
Organization: Kilowatt Computing of Deer Park, NY
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 18:01:08 GMT


	Definition of advertising on the net: The volunteering of information
as to pricing, availability, etc.
	Replies to specific questions that may be of interest to all users
is not considered advertisement.
	I personally think it's a good idea for companies to be active on
the net.

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From: tracyb@bnr.ca (Tracy Blomquist)
Subject: Re: WANTED: 17" monitor recommendation
Organization: Bell Northern Research
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 17:14:00 GMT

I just got off the phone with another tech rep from Philips.
It seems that the 1st tech rep didn't know his stuff.  I had
the new guy fax me some specs, and at 1280x1024 the 1764 only does
60Hz!  I was led to believe it went higher by someone else at
Philips.  The 100Hz max refresh that they advertise is for
lower resolutions.  So to revise...

For high 17" refresh at 1280x1024, there are few choices:
Nec 5fg ($$), Nanao T560i ($$$), any others?

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From: catone@dmark.wharton.upenn.edu (Tony Catone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: VESA local-bus 486-33 motherboard wanted!
Date: 7 Oct 92 01:58:43 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
In-reply-to: abuhr@owlnet.rice.edu's message of 20 Sep 92 21:46:17 GMT

In article <BuwCH5.J0I@rice.edu> abuhr@owlnet.rice.edu (Aaron M. Buhr) writes:

	 Does anyone know of a place I can get a 486-33 VESA local-bus 
   motherboard only (not a complete system) ?  I'll also consider a bare-bones
   system of that type as well.  Thanks in advance.

Zenon advertises VESA local-bus systems.  Check their ads in PC Sources.


- Tony
  catone@dmark.wharton.upenn.edu

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From: kirchner@uklira.informatik.uni-kl.de (Reinhard Kirchner)
Subject: 3/9-chip simms and refreshing ( on C+T )
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 11:37:45 GMT

Hello,

after some phoning and digging through varous data manuals I found out:

1*1Mb chips and 4*1Mb chips ( as on 3 chip simms ) have the same
read write timing etc.

Both kind of chips have 10 address inputs, for row and column addressing
of 1Meg cells, of 1 bit or 4 bits.

The difference is:

1*1Mb chips need only 9 address bits for refreshing, they contain
internaly 4 256kb parts, which are refreshed simultaniously.

4*1Mb chips need 10 ( TEN ) address bits for refreshing.

So if your chipset generates only 9 address refresh you are definitely
out of luck.

Why this is not found by dignose programs sometimes: These programs
generate continous read requests, and these may also do the refreshing.
But when you actually use this memory, means: put something in, don't touch
it for some seconds, and try to read, you get the error.

On Chip and Technologies: their chipset 8230, memory controller is 82C302,
generates 10 address bits for refresh. So PC's with this chipset
should run with 3 chip simms. The ten-th bit is now just fed to the chips,
but ignored.

Reinhard Kirchner
Univ. of Kaiserslautern, Germany
kirchner@informatik.uni-kl.de
From: Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Jim Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: My 386/40 Kills IDEs
Distribution: world
Date: 5 Oct 92 08:35:07 EST
Organization: Amiga BitSwap Central Dispatch

In a message dated Sun  4 Oct 92 19:04, Reward@eos.ncsu.edu (robert E. Ward
wrote:

 REW>   I've been trying to install an IDE in my 386/40 for about two
 REW> weeks.
 REW>   Any ideas anyone?  Is this a BIOS problem?  All I have installed
 REW> is
 REW> the IDE controller and a Paradise SVGA card.  It's a 386/40 with AMI
 REW> BIOS
 REW> of 05/05/91.

I own a Silicon Valley motherboard with the AMD 386-40, with a Silicon
Valley BIOS, and  an Identity brand all-in-one type I/O board driving a
Western Digital 80meg IDE drive.  No problems.

If your motherboard was designed for the 40meg CPU, then it shouldn't be
the BIOS per se, but have you investigated that you are assigning the right
drive type on the CMOS setup?

-- Via DLG Pro v0.995

Jim Johnson-
*** Remember, they're only tools - Not a way of life! ***
From: crs@siesoft.co.uk (Chris Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Advice wanted on buying a Cacheing IDE controller
Keywords: IDE
Date: 28 Sep 92 17:48:36 GMT
Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems Ltd.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

Does anyone have any advice on buying an IDE 'controller' with onboard cache?
How much cache is it worth having?  I expect that > 4 Mb is overkill, maybe
even >2Mb is overkill.  What manufactuers should I avoid?  Is there any point?


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: baker@westsd.dco.dec.com (Art Baker)
Subject: Re: Pro Audio Spectrum 16 SCSI port?
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 15:20:10 GMT

 A recent call to Media Vision revealed that they have no plans to
support the PAS-16 under Windows NT.  They seemed to feel that the
SoundBlaster compatibility provided by NT would be enough.

 Hopefully, NT SCSI drivers for the CD-ROM will be available from
Trantor.

 Not very encouraging...

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From: sfullenkamp@falcon.aamrl.wpafb.af.mil
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: TAPE BACKUP VIA PRINTER PORT-SPEED,ETC
Date: 2 Oct 92 09:43:44 EST
Organization: USAF AL/CFH, WPAFB, Dayton, OH

Does anyone out there have any experience or comments on backup tape 
devices that interface to the computer via the printer (parallel) port.
I work in a lab that has multiple desktop computers and the portable
nature of this approach appeals to me, at least from a budgetary point
of view.  From a technical point of view (tranfer speed) I'm not quite
sure if it is a reasonable approach.  It seems to me that units attached
to the IDE controller or such might be faster, but then again, the tape
might be the limiting factor, not the interface.
Any and all responses welcome.
Steve Fullenkamp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: tdbear@tandon.com (Tom Barrett)
Subject: Re: Difference between 4,6,10,12,etc-layer motherbrds?
Organization: Tandon Corporation, Moorpark, CA
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 16:35:32 GMT

In article <BvD684.Gtz@news.cso.uiuc.edu> mem28103@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Marc E. Munoz ) writes:
>Hello!  I was wondering what difference does more layers (e.g. 4-layer
>vs. 12-layer) on a motherboard have on the quality or reliability of a
>system?

You left out 2-layer!  IBM has used them, and we have used
them.  They are VERY hard to design and certify, but they are
dirt cheap to make.  What with the economy, you will most
likely see more of them.

Now... it is NOT the number of layers, but the quality of the
routing!  Typically, the boards with more than 4-layers have
tried to place as many components as they can.  If the board
is very dense, you might run into pattern sensitivity in the
form of noise while running intensive programs like OS/2.  The
boards with a huge number of layers (over 6) were probably
autorouted... unless it is obvious that they just needed all
those layers (as evidenced by components so close that they
touch), then I would stay away from those as well since they
may not have cared how the board was routed.

Look for a board which doesn't have densely packed (almost
touching) components, has 4-6 layers.  It shouldn't bee too
difficult... most boards match that.

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From: gsgathin@SACAM.OREN.ORNL.GOV (golando s gathings)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: *** please tell what these simms are
Date: 30 Sep 92 06:00:09 GMT



	I have some simms, but I dont know whether they are 
1Mx9 .. etc .  They are the nine chips to a simm, each chip numbered
as follows:  

	TI
	TMS4C1024DJ

Any help would be welcome..

Golando
From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Everex EV-1830B motherboard and AT bus memory
Date: 30 Sep 1992 01:37:15 GMT
Organization: UT Health Science Center Houston


I've picked up a system with an Everex EV-1830B motherboard. For the
application I intend to use it for, I need more than the 2 meg of memory the
motherboard will hold. I have two 16-bit AT bus memory boards that I'd like
to use with it, but the system doesn't recognize them. They work fine in
another machine, so I know they're OK. There are two nonstandard slots; I
assume they're for special memory cards, and I assume I can't get those any
more.

Can the EV-1830B use AT bus extended memory? Is there a configuration switch
hiding underneath the drive bays that I need to mess with? Am I totally
screwed? Does anyone out there have the special memory boards this thing uses?

Please reply by email; I'll summarize here if there's interest. (I normally
don't read this group.)
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From: steveo@mel.dbce.csiro.au (Stephen Oakes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: FYI: Current Microsoft Product Support direct phone numbers
Summary: Not the only country in the world...
Date: 29 Sep 92 22:48:57 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Organization: CSIRO, Div. Building Constr. and Eng'ing, Melb., Australia

In article <1992Sep29.044822.11415@nwnexus.WA.COM> osiris@halcyon.halcyon.com (David Ruggiero) writes:
>[Since I live in Seattle and can download this from the MS BBS for free,
> I thought I would post it for the rest of the civilized world, in the
> hope that it saves you some dialing time and phone charges. Use at your
> own risk.]

Don't you mean the rest of the civilised country?

These numbers are not of much use to me.  Why not post with a local
distribution?

>David

Stephen
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: chrisa@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (C. G. Albone)
Subject: 130M Seagate & a 42M WD drive... 
Organization: /etc/organization
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 03:45:38 GMT

Hello *,
	I have recently acquired a 130M IDE Seagate drive, and have installed
it into my 386-box. I have a Western Digital Caviar 140 (42M IDE drive), that
I would also like to put into the system. I have no information on the WD drive,
however, and have not been able to get the two to cooperate. 

Can these two drives exist in the same system? COuld someone direct me to info
about jumpering the WD drive to act as a slave?

Any help will be appreciated, but could you email the response as i am not a
regular reader of this group.

thanx.
chris.


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From: asoper@wyvern.twuug.com (Aubrey Soper)
Subject: Re: ll format IDE to install linux
Organization: Tidewater UNIX Users Group
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 22:27:00 GMT

Mike@tron.gun.de (Michael Gerhards) writes:

>Reply to "ll format IDE to install linux"
>from BBROWN%INFONODE.INGR.COM@USENET.ZER

>Hello,

>> a.  has it ever been decided if it is safe to ll format ide?

>my dealer told me that a lowlevelformat will destroy the ide-hdd.

>c  u

Maxtor, for one, has a low-level IDE formatting
program, writtern by their engineers,  on their 
BBS that I've used.  No problems as of a year later.  
-- 

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From: chena@crs.cl.msu.edu (Antony Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Keep computer on all time or turn
Date: 28 Sep 92 21:28:33 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University

Mike@tron.gun.de (Michael Gerhards) writes:

>My dealer said, the power-on is the most dangeruous point for the IC's.
>There could be a higher voltage than normal, which destroys the chips.
>On the other hand, I start my PC mostly two times a day and didn't have
>any problems since two years...

Most dealers are about as knowledgeable as a fruitcake.  It is slightly
more dangerous for the IC's, but most of the risk lies on the hard drive.
Everytime you turn it on, the torque motor is used.  This motor tends to
wear out pretty fast.  If you keep the plates spinning, they last forever.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: dernis@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Subject: Hard Drive Advice
Reply-To: dernis@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 20:17:39 GMT

Hi,
   I hope someone can help a poor soul.  I recently came across some 
miscellaneous parts for a 286 for $100.  I jumped at it thinking I could make
a quick profit,  the situation is deteriorating from there.

I got a working computer out of it, with a 20MB hardrive from my old 
computer, opting for the 40MB among the parts for myself, also a 
360K drive, a parallel and serial port and a monochrome card and green 
screen.  I got a memory expansion out of it for myself. I got $250 for 
it on the condition that I buy and install
a 1.44MB floppy disk.  Which  I did. It turns  out the brand new drive
I bought was defective, you may have seen my recent questions diagnosing
it.  Now, when I was installing the new floppy the harddrive failed to work.
DEad doesn't make a peep, but the light goes. I checked the power cable,
tried one of the cables that was working with the floppies, nothing helps the
drive doesn't spin. Stiction? Or dead start up motor?  How can one tell
the difference?  Does it matter?  Is either Repairable?  There is no important
data on it.

It doesn't really matter,  I want this out of my hair at this point. I agreed
to give $80, out of the $250 (she paid for the floppy and $20 for my time), 
towards a new drive, and she'll pay the difference.  So my profit is down
to $70 and I have spent countless hours and my wife is about to kill me and
I don't blame her.

What can I get that will be very reliable at a minimum cost at least 20MB?
She is my wife's co-worker and I want to do right by her, she is willing
to spend maybe $125 plus my $80. What is the best deal.  Can I get
am IDE drive with 40MB or 60MB, plus an appropriate controller for around
$200?  What is best?  Am I better off spending the money on the drive
and getting one compatable with the MFM(?) controller I have?

The old drive is a Seagate ST-225.   After I get this out of my hair,
is the seagate worth anything? Maybe as a backup for the ST-251 I put in
my computer from the parts.  PErhaps when it goes, the motor from that will
run this one or vice versa.

Have I diagnosed the drive correctly?

Any help will be greatly appreciated so I can sleep again.

Thanks,
Mitch Dernis

P.S. I have learned my lesson about quick profits, and about selling things
to people I know.
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From: isc10085@nusunix1.nus.sg (NG YENG YONG)
Subject: Re: How fast are these simms?
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 08:03:03 GMT

The oversize i on the left is the usual INTEL logo. Therefore the chip
is manufactured by INTEL.

Best regards,
StevE
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: jclei@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Jason Lei)
Subject: ATI Graphics Ultra Pro Local Bus on G2000 486/33. Was (Re:I ordered..)
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 02:44:12 GMT

In article <1992Sep25.200607.5314@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mrosen@nyx.cs.du.edu (Michael Rosen) writes:
>rantapaa@s6.math.umn.edu (Erik E. Rantapaa) writes:
>
>>mrosen@nyx.cs.du.edu (Michael Rosen) writes:
>
>>>They have changed the configuration of the 486DX/33 to now have 8 megs
>>>of RAM, 8 standard slots and 2 Local Bus slots (I may have this wrong,
>>>it may be 8 including 2 local bus), two IDE Local Bus controllers on
>>>the motherboard, and an ATI Graphics Ultra Pro Local Bus.
>>                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>>Are you sure it was an Ultra Pro?  The video card they put in their
>>.........................
>
>Yeah, I'm almost positive he said Graphics Ultra Pro.  I could call and
>check though, just to be sure.

My friend also ordered a 486DX/33 from Gateway and I was surprised when she
told me it will be equiped with ATI-GU-Pro on a local bus.  She ordered 2
days ago.


Jason


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From: valaris@swifty.dap.CSIRO.AU (Andrew Valaris)
Subject: IBM pc JX
Organization: CSIRO, Division of Applied Physics, Sydney
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 08:17:58 GMT

Could someone please tell me the difference between the pc jr and the pc JX.
I have the latter one, which looks nothing like the jr. I can find plenty of
info on the jr, but nothing on the JX. Was it only available here in Australia
,when was the JX released? I know the jr was released around '85, and it was
(by the looks of it) crappy. Is it PC and/or XT compatible?

Please help, I'm obsessed by this beast.....
From: patvirta@polaris.utu.fi (Patrik Virtanen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: NEC 3D's black isn't black, yet...?
Date: 27 Sep 92 01:33:23 GMT
Organization: University of Turku


        Anybody else out there having too light black on NEC 3D? Just
        when I turn the monitor on, the screen is very near to black
        (minimum brightness and average contrast), but when the picture
        tube 'gets warm', the screen appears to be more closely to dark
        gray than to black (and when looked in a dark lighting, it
        doesn't even smell to black if compared to the wonderful-
        *BLACK* border on the right-hand side of the screen).

        Is this only specific to my monitor, or is this a 'feature' on
        all 3Ds? Does there exist additional adjustment knobs (etc.)
        inside the monitor (if, where) or is this fixable on the whole?
        (The screen adapter I'm using is Diamond SpeedSTAR VGA (72Hz,
        I think), if if it has anything to do with this.)

        While waiting for the replies; Thanks!


--- Patrik Virtanen // patvirta@polaris.utu.fi
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From: ebx@scs.carleton.ca (edmond bo xiao)
Subject: How important is interlaced/noninterlaced?
Reply-To: ebx@scs.carleton.ca
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 19:10:48 GMT

I am about to buy a 486 box. One of the problem bothering me about the monitor 
is its interlaceness. I learned from some articles that what important for a 
display is flicker, not interlaceness. It seems to me non-interlaced has an edge
overinterlaced at the same refresh rate. And the higher the rate, the fuzzier 
the screen, no matter it is NI or IN. Are those true?

A clearify of how interlaced/noninterlaced works may helps.

Appreacite all inputs.

edmond

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From: kirchner@uklira.informatik.uni-kl.de (Reinhard Kirchner)
Subject: Software to format Conner IDE drive?
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 14:29:58 GMT

Hello,

I just decided to get a Conner IDE drive, and ... aehemmm, I do only
have a limited trust in the promise I don't need a low level formating.

So, just for prevention: Can some of these low level tools like DiskManager,
Spinrite II, Speedstor etc. do a low level format on such a drive ?

Reinhard Kirchner
Univ. of Kaiserslautern, Germany
kirchner@informatik.uni-kl.de
From: swaliff@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Steve Aliff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Source for Wangtek 5150 tape drive?
Date: 30 Sep 92 22:10:33 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: The Great Beyond


I'm looking for a good source from which to possibly purchase a
Wangtek 5150 tape drive and compatible interface card for the ISA
bus.  (or equivalent QIC-02 drive with SCSI interface) If you're
aware of a good source or three, please let me know. Please include
pricing if you know it. Thanks.
-- 
Steve Aliff (swaliff@afterlife.ncsc.mil [144.51.1.1])
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