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From: wayne@eng.umd.edu (Wayne C. McCullough)
Subject: New VGAplanets game! (was Re: VGA Planets Game(Full))
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 05:54:10 GMT
Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park

In article <1e0g18INN82k@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> jtb5@po.CWRU.Edu (Justin T. Ballard) writes:
>
>I now have over 11 people for the game. Please do not send
>me any more e-mail. I will be sending information packets on
>Monday and the first 10 responses are in the game. For the people
>who don't make it I suggest you start your own game. System 
>resources are minor and hosting a game is relatively easy. I'm
>thankful for the response. Look for your info packet on monday.
>Thanks for your time.

Hmmm...  I was going to play in that game, but oops... too late.  

I guess there is only one thing to do... start one myself... but, if I
do, I would apreciate some sugestions, like how to smooth the 
mail>unix>dos>unix>mail interface out.   

So, unless I get some outstanding sugestions on how to do this, this
is how it is going to be:

Each turn must be submited by 9:00 PM EST to wayne@eng.umd.edu.  Each
turn is to be uuencoded.  If you are not sure you have the facilities
to do this, you may uuencode a file (preferably short) and send it to
me to check.

Updates will be preformed (hopefully) by midnight, following the 9:00 
turn in time.  They will be mailed to individual players in a uuencoded
format.

To play, mail me your email adress, and your first three desired race.
FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE!  Also, mail me your desired password.  (I
Will destroy that information after I get the first turns back from
the players.  I prefer to have passwords, just to ensure the safty
and confedentiality of each player.  I know it sounds stupid, as I
am the only one who can actually use this info, but it just makes me
happier.)  Also, if you wish to have your own race name, submit your
first three desired races, but also submit your desired new name.  
This way, people will know who to go after (or not go after:) in
future games.

I will be playing in this, as the Fascists (so don't even ask!) 

This is with the UNREGISTERED version (tech 6 max.)  However, my check
is in the mail, so this will be the last game I hold that is this way.

Players will start out at SHORT range.

Victory conditions:
1) if any solid aliance (ie, all players swear they will never attack any
of the other players in the aliance) has clear advantage. (ie, all other
of any apreciable force (atleast one station, or one ship) conceed.)

2) at a certain point (probably late december, this will be decided in
the first week of play) the game will be called quits, and the winner
will be determined by score.

If you are in the other game, please tell me, so I can let others
who are not playing get a chance.

I hope to have 11 players by thursday, 9:00pm, so the first turn will be
due on friday, 9:00pm.  Assume this is the case, unless posted here 
otherwise.

W
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: Curt.Miller@launchpad.unc.edu (Curt Miller)
Subject: HELP building computer and RS-422 question
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:37:51 GMT

	I was wondering if anyone could point me to some good sources 
of information on building computers.  I am going to try to build
a partial computer that will consist of a turbo 8088, power supply,
floppy controller, one 3.5" floppy drive, and an RS-422 interface.
I've never worked with building computers before, so if anyone
can give me some pointers, or some sources of parts or info I'd 
appreciate it.  The sysytem is going to be an external slave drive
unit for a Laird 1450 Character Generator.  I'm getting the driver
software to run on it, and then I need to build the hardware.

	I was also curious if nayone would have some suggestions
as to weather I'd be better off using a standard computer case
and making it rackmountable or if I'd be better off putting all of 
the components in a rackmount case.  I was wondering if with a rackmount
case I might run into interference problems with the other video sources
in the rack. (S-VHS deck, switcher)

	I was also curious if anyone knows of a product that converts
an RS-232 port into an RS-422, or if anyone knows of a good source
of RS-422 cards, and how much they cost.  I've also been told by 
one source that you can trick a device into thinking that it
sees an RS-422 by simply altering the pinouts on an RS-232 with 
some resistors and diodes.  Is this possible?

	PLEASE mail anyreplies since I cannot retrieve Usenet 
posts and it would be handy to have a hardcopy of any replies.
Thanks in advance!!!

UCSKJM@UCS.UWPLATT.EDU		Kurt Miller
UCSKJM@UWPLATT.BITNET	University of Wisconsin Platteville



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From: hm@opus40.ix.de (Harald Milz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 586 system...
Date: 16 Nov 92 17:59:08 GMT
Organization: iX-Redaktion


In article <1992Nov14.225553.1@gallua.gallaudet.edu>, 11dhackett@gallua.gallaudet.edu writes:
|> Hello folks, 
|> 
|> 	Anybody knows when the 586 system will be released into the market?
|> The last time I heard that they would be out in December 1992 or January
|> 1993. Any comment ?
|> 
|> 
|> Darryl Hackett
|> 11dhackett@gallua.bitnet
|> 11dhacke@gallux.gallaudet.edu

Last Information says that Intel are going to intro the P5 not earlier than AMD to present their 486 clone, i.e. around the Cebit fair in March 1993, taking place in Hannover.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ajb8886@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: Re: Speedstar 24x
Reply-To: ajb8886@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:45:54 GMT

In article <Bxrtrr.LMJ@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, rg9538@ehsn2.cen.uiuc.edu (Ronald E Garnett) writes:
>
>I bought one a few weeks ago to replace my old speedstar+ card.  The new card seems to have a few problems.  I want to see iif these are normal (known) problems or not.
>
>First, in 1024x768x256 mode, I get stray pixel problems fairly often.  SMall groups
>of pixels that don't match the background.  They change when I somehow force the
>screen to do a rewrite.  (I am speaking of Win 3.1 in this part)
>
>
>
>Second, in DOS, I get stray characters left in the left margin of the screen.  They 
>replace the leftmosst character with a |, but the actual character is still there.
>Only the display of the character is hosed.
>
>
>
>Anyone have similar problems?
>
>
>
>
>Note:  486-33, 12 MHz ISA bus, Nanao 9070U monito

Yes, there's your problem.  You're running your ISA bus 50% faster than
specification.  I've fooled with my IO Bus speed taking it to 10 and 13.3Mhz
respectively (I have a 40Mhz 386, and that corresponds to clk/4 and clk/3), 
and I also get the dropouts with any video card I've tried, including the
SS24X.

The solution is simple.  You can slow your bus down to 8Mhz and get perfect
video, or you can run your bus up nice and high, after removing the
zero-wait-state jumper on the card to allow it to insert a wait state at the
50% higher clock, and it will also work fine at that speed.

Alex


>
>Ron Garnett
>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: harp@martha.utcc.utk.edu (harp)
Subject: Ati Ultra Pro problems 
Keywords:  Ati Ultra Pro
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 19:31:44 GMT


I can't be sure, but did I read something within the last week on problems
people have been having with the Ati Ultra Pro and printing to a Deskjet
500 through windows from application such as Word?  I know someone who
recently got a 486DX2/66 from Gateway and the printer is doing some strange
things when printing through windows.  Any info on this?

Sean Harp
University of Tennessee
From: daparish@beckman.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: reference for Monitor specs?
Date: 17 Nov 92 18:51:02 PDT
Organization: Beckman Instruments, Inc.


Does anyone know of a good reference  book or magazine that is readily
available that shows the specs of the most 14, 15 in monitors on the market.
ie pitch, vert and horiz frequencies at common resolutions.

I'm looking for a monitor and want to get a VESA compliant 72 hz vert at 
800x600  monitor. It's hard to get this info from the typical adds.
Even the stores often cant provide the info and it's usually not on the box
either. In fact, your lucky if its in the manual.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ag735@yfn.ysu.edu (Etienne Tasse)
Subject: Re: Reviving the Dinosaur
Reply-To: ag735@yfn.ysu.edu (Etienne Tasse)
Organization: St. Elizabeth Hospital, Youngstown, OH
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:50:41 GMT


In a previous article, 93jay@williams.edu (Jonathan Young) says:

>I have an ancient XT clone lying around (I know I know) and have
>suddenly found myself with the need to do some occasional development
>for MSDOS systems (for the HP95 palmtop) This machine has recently
>returned from the friends I lent it to when I purchased my lovely Mac
>IIci system. What I'd like to do is get it up to the point where I can
>expect reasonable compile times for short programs (we are talking a
>palmtop here) After being spoiled on the Mac, I have no interest in
>windows, VGA or any half baked GUI equipment. I'd like to save my
>hercules board and monitor but the rest is liable to go.
>
>If I remember my DOS days correctly I can't just swap the motherboard
>out for a 286/386 board. I need to replace the power supply as well as
>the hard/floppy controller. At that point it almost seems worth it to
>get a "bare bones system" of new case, power supply, single floppy and
>motherboard. I could see my way clear to ditching the Seagate ST251
>although it still runs well. If I swapped out parts, could I still use
>this drive? Would I even want to? Could I put in a 3.5" disk drive to
>facilitate transfer <-> Mac? 

Contrary to belief, most (newer) XT motherboards can be ditched for a 286 or
386 while keeping the Power suply. 

- The XT motherboard must be a "Turbo" type with 8 slots. The spacing between
a 5-slot and a 8-slot is DIFFERENT!
- Your XT controller will work - if you tell your CMOS you have NO DRIVES
  ATTACHED (The CMOS drive type applies ONLY to IDE drives). There are EPROMs
  on the HD controller that take care of things.
- The floppy controller won't accept HD drives (you're stuck with 360/720k).
  You STILL have to tell the machine you got 360 5 1/4 and or 720 3 1/2.
- You will have to flip your keyboard DIP from  XT to AT or BUY a new 
   keyboard if it's an XT only.
-  The power supply shoud be good enough for a 286 or 386sx - maybe not for
   a 486-66...

It might be possible to recycle your XT 640K of memory - I dunno
   how - anybody know?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: wilken@plains.NoDak.edu (Scott Wilken)
Subject: Re: Compuserve questions
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 19:23:10 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

In article <1992Nov23.161138.3150@unet.net.com> jrs@zippy.unet.com (John Switzer Frame 3.0) writes:
>
>The basic charge covers all activity in a select group of services; the 
>forums, however, cost about $12/hr for 2400 baud. You might also have
>to pay connection charges if you are using telnet or some other sort 
>of phone link; CompuServe has their own. 

You can telnet to compuserve?  I knew they had an internet mail feed, but
I didnt know they allowed you to log on through the network as well.

Or are you meaning sprintnet? (formerly telenet, which is a completely 
different thing than telnet).

Inquiring minds want to know...

Scott
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From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Why memory costs doubled
Date: 16 Nov 92 22:04:10 GMT
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc

In <1992Nov13.181714.1835@dcatlas.dot.gov> joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott) writes:

>phillip@kiwi.gen.nz (Phillip Hardy) writes:

>>noel@reg.triumf.ca (NOEL) writes:
>>: 	I am still peaved that RAM prices have doubled overnight seamingly
>>: their cost from the distributers has gone up.  Something is very fishy.  
>> 
>>Ok the same thing has happened here in New Zealand...two weeks ago i could get 1meg simms for NZ$60 and this week they are $80....the reason i was given was 
>>something about the Korean ram haveing a higher import duty imposed on it in the States and that all the importers where now chasing the Japanese produced RAM 
>>So with everyone getting the Japanese RAM the prices have gone up..Supply and 
>>Demand I guess...

>NO!  Not supply and demand; you are unfortunately paying for the result of
>the U.S. Government initiating the use of force to collect fees for which no
>service of value is provided, i.e. you are an indirect victim of extortion.
>In the U.S. now, rather than act to secure individual rights (the sole
>purpose for which it was chartered), the government "works" by granting
>benefits to one group at the forced expense of others, in this case
>certain business interests found it easier to complain than to compete.
>Granted, the Koreans were "dumping" at below cost, but people who are not
>so shortsighted would realize that "what goes around comes around".  The
>kneejerk reaction, unfortunately, was to initiate the use of force in order
>to placate a body of future votes for those in office.  This means that we
>all lose; once more the well-being of the producer being sacrificed at
>gunpoint (figuratively) for the well-being of the parasite.

Oh, horse manure.  How can duties imposed IN THE U.S. affect prices of
DRAM in *NEW ZEALAND*, where they are presumably still able to buy
whatever Korean DRAM products the Koreans choose to dump there for the
original price?  If anything, I would expect that (since the Koreans
are now gong to be interested in shipping someplace not subject to
U.S. duties) that prices should FALL elsewhere (glut due to Koreans
not being able to sell in the U.S.

When one party in a free market is effectively subsidized by their
government and is 'dumping' product, how can you call that
'competition'?  

[I make bombs, not chips.]

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: hm@opus40.ix.de (Harald Milz)
Subject: Re: 1 meg video memory 512k monitor help?
Organization: iX-Redaktion
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 11:17:16 GMT


In article <Bxz73t.F4x@ns1.nodak.edu>, wilken@plains.NoDak.edu (Scott Wilken) writes:
|> In article <1992Nov19.145316.13674@news2.cis.umn.edu> bloc0017@student.tc.umn.edu (The DuDe) writes:
|> >
|> >have one megabyte of video memory but I did not know that not all monitors
|> >support 1 meg.  my monitor only supports 640 x 480 and I was wondering if
|> >anyone either had a program around this or knows of a way around it.
|> 
|> You are going to have to take the chips back, or buy a new monitor.  There
|> is not software fix for this since this is a result of the hardware design
|> (the monitor physically cant scan fast enough to go to the higher
|> resolutions).
|> 
|> Non-autosyncing monitors like yours usually have pretty cruddy dot pitch
|> ratings (usually .39 or worse) anyway, so higher resolutions would be
|> VERY fuzzy anyway.
|> 

And will very probably destroy your monitor irreversibly.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: s1369046@techst02.technion.ac.il (Ophir Prusak)
Subject: video blaster
Reply-To: s1369046@techst02.technion.ac.il (Ophir Prusak)
Organization: Technion, Israel Inst. of Technology
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 13:41:12 GMT

 I have a friend who has a video blaster with 16 meg ram ( on an isa 486 )
He says that he can't use it with 16 meg ram, only 12 meg or less.
Can any one please help him ( me ) ???
Please reply e-mail to ( inter-net )

s1369046@t2.technion.ac.il

thanx in advance,
Ophir
From: carlton@cs.berkeley.edu (Mike Carlton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Wanted: logitech _bus_ trackman
Date: 19 Nov 92 00:10:44 GMT
Reply-To: carlton@cs.berkeley.edu
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: peets.berkeley.edu

I need an old style logitech bus trackman (the kind with a card to
be installed in the pc and a grey mouseball).  Pc Connection tells
me that they're no longer made.

Does anyone have one of these they'd like to sell?  Or, does anyone
know of a mail order place that has them?

BTW, I want this model because I plan to hook it up to my NeXT and have
a wiring chart for this model already.

cheers,
--mike (carlton@cs.berkeley.edu)
From: caross@acsu.buffalo.edu (Christian A. Ross)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Seagate IDE Jumper Settings Needed
Date: 19 Nov 92 17:23:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: acsu.Bxz4Ap.ErB
Organization: UB

I have recently aquired a Seagate IDE drive (the part number is not with me
as I type up this post) of aproximate 110 Mb. I am inquiring as
to where to obtain jumper settings to reconfigure the drive to my system.
If anyone has the jumper pinouts, knows or where to get them, I would 
appreciate it if they could post that information. Thankyou for your time
and trouble.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: rwebb@nyx.cs.du.edu (Russell Webb)
Subject: Re: "p24t" upgrades
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Keywords: upgrade, P5, P24t, Zeos
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 16:38:43 GMT

In article <360@snll-arpagw.llnl.gov> hwstock@snll-arpagw.llnl.gov (stockman harlan w) writes:

[regarding P24T upgradability]
>Is this upgrade route just a marketing ploy? Has Intel given Zeos and others 
>enough info to ensure that the P24t will actually function in the ZIF ... 
>with/without major BIOS upgrades? Last year Zeos offered motherboards with 
>"upgradable" processor modules, even for 486/33 systems. I now doubt they even 
>offer a 486DX2/66 upgrade module. 

I don't know if they have been given enough information, but as far as the
upgradability is concerned, you wouldn't have to rely on Zeos for the
P24T chip.  The new Zeos motherboards only require the actual processor
to be changed and a 25MHz/33MHz jumper setting.

Also, the new Zeos boards have flash BIOS, so if a BIOS upgrade was necessary
it wouldn't be a hassle.

-Russell
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: s4uhkm@fnma.COM (Howie Michalski)
Subject: SCSI Driver For Emerald Board
Reply-To: s4uhkm@fnma.COM
Organization: Fannie Mae
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:54:45 GMT

I have a 16-bit SCSI board made be Emerald Systems -- it came with a tape
drive we bought from them, but we daisy chain two drives off of one machine
and so I have the extra board.

I am not _VERY_ familiar with how this stuff works - but should I be able
to use that extra board to run a SCSI Hard Drive??  Will I need different drivers?

Help!

A response via email would be appreciated, as I tend not to browse this group
very often.  Thanks!


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From: pauls@css.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: BOCA 14.4K Modem
Date: 19 Nov 1992 18:32:26 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan ITD Consulting and Support Services
NNTP-Posting-Host: stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu
Keywords: BOCA
Originator: news@stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu

In article <BxyBn0.I8o@ccu.umanitoba.ca> umkirk07@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Kirk) writes:
>I have a BOCA v.32bis 14.4K internal modem.  I was curious whether it had
>the UART 16550 Chip in it.  Someone told me that it didn't, but judging
>from the performance, it doesn't seem to effect it.
>
>The modem does work flawlessly (with the exception of the rare CRC error)
>and I would recomment it as a low cost 14.4K modem (Some group purchases
>on misc.forsale.computers.pc-clone have found a price of 
>only  $219.00 plus $7 shipping.  That is amazing!
>
>Anyways, if anyone knows which UART the BOCA modem has, please reply.
>(I looked all through the manual, but no mention of anything..)

Look on the modem itself.  The chip will be easily recognized.  Mine has
the 16450, which is not nearly as nice as a 16550, but it's a pretty
standard UART found in AT's, including the original IBM AT serial cards.

I have no trouble getting 1675cps out of it (so says PCPlus) using
Ymodem-G and a 14.4 v32bis/v42bis connection.


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From: jleon@girtab.usc.edu (Juan Carlos Leon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Cyrix "486" cpu really compatible ?
Date: 16 Nov 1992 23:10:24 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: girtab.usc.edu

In article <1992Nov16.173224.3075@opus40.ix.de> hm@opus40.ix.de (Harald Milz) writes:
>
>|> In article <BxLLJ0.EK2@dei.unipd.it> vento0@sabrina.dei.unipd.it (Andrea Susini) writes:
>|> >I'm looking for informations about the new CYRIX cpu 486 compatible.
>|> >I'm an Italian, and here in Italy is rather difficult to find info of 
>|> >this kind.My questions are :
>|> 
>|> >4) Is it far better than a 386 40 mhz ?
>|> 
>
>No, the 486DLC-33's performance is about the same as the 386DX-40's.

Don't believe anything until you've seen the 486DLC working by yourself.

I have a machine based on a Cyrix 486SLC-25Mhz and it runs at the same rate of
a 386DX-40, sometimes faster, sometimes slower, it depends on the task.

Note that I'm not refering on benchmarks but on actual performance "feel".  Try
yourself working sometime with a 386-40 and then with a Cyrix one and tell me
which one feels faster.

Since this is only a SLC-25 I'll guess that the DLC-33 is even faster.

Juan Leon