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From: mdgoodma@crdec8.apgea.army.mil (Mack Goodman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Help Hooking up DEC LA75 ( MMJ connector ) to IBM PC serial POrt
Date: 24 Jul 92 15:00:19 GMT


Has anyone ever connected a LA75 DEC printer ( with the MMJ connector)
to an IBM PC?  I am trying to make a cable to go from the LA75 to
the PC serial 25pin port and it is just not working.
If anyone has done this, please guide me....

Thanks

Mack
mdgoodma@crdec8.apgea.army.mil

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: grantham@super.org (Jon Grantham)
Subject: Re: Will a math chip help speed up Windows?
Organization: Supercomputing Research Center
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 06:20:56 GMT

jenk@microsoft.com (Jen Kilmer) wrote:
>Some stuff, tho, always goes to disk - like in printing, a temp file
>is created. Cardfile, Write, and Calender (windows applets) also make
>temporary files. If there isn't enough room for these on the ramdrive,
>they land where they land. 

What does "they land where they land" mean?  My worry is that by putting
TEMP on a RAMdrive, I'll get hosed when I try to print large documents that
won't fit on the RAMdrive.

Jon
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From: 00383@bach.udel.edu (Thomas R Rocek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Phone Number for EVEREX Tech Support = (510) 498-1115
Keywords: Everex
Date: 24 Jul 92 20:28:06 GMT
Organization: University of Delaware

In article <1992Jul24.190709.3522@tandem.com> sri@stationd.storage.tandem.com (Sri Chandran) writes:
>  Can anyone help me with the phone number for Everex Tech Support ?
>
>                                               Thanks, Sri

(510) 498-1115
Hope that helps...Tom Rocek fjh00383@udelvm.udel.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith)
Subject: Re: Subdivide this group (C.S.I.P.H)?
Organization: The John P. Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 02:20:38 GMT

In article <0095E1C9.DD8BF1E0@vms.csd.mu.edu> 5916rahmank@vms.csd.mu.edu writes:
>In article <1992Jul24.181331.3246@coli.uni-sb.de>, chbl@sbustd.rz.uni-sb.de (Christian Blum) writes:
>|>I agree. It's a pleague to find the articles you are interested in if there
>|>are some hundreds to choose from...
>|>Other subgroup suggestions: serial, BIOS
>|>
>|>Chris.
>
>I also vote 'yes'. This group may be divided into:
>1.	Drives (HD, FD, etc.)
>2.	Memory (RAM, Cache, etc.)
>3.	Processor (386, 486, P5, etc. including bus type)
>4.	Interface (HD controller, Video controller, etc.)
>5.	Sound	(audio related matters)
>
>Any more?...
>		Anis Rahman
>		EECE, Marquette University.

I think that the sub-divisions should be:

1) Motherboards   -> Processor / memory / caching / bios / buss
2) Video          -> cards / monitors / digitizing or pass through video
3) Mass storage   -> Hard / floppy / controllers / Worm / CD-rom
4) Interface      -> Mouse / keyboard / serial / parallel
5) Other          -> Sound cards / instrumentation / midi

At the very least, comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc should be turned into 
comp.sys.ibm.pc.help (ie immediate help or information needed).
This would free up c.s.i.h for our regular lofty discussions...  :)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.periphs.scsi
From: ski@daredevil.cs.hut.fi (Sami Kivilaakso)
Subject: Problems installing a second SCSI drive with ST-02
Keywords: SCSI, Seagate ST-02
Reply-To: ski@niksula.hut.fi (Sami Kivilaakso)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 07:02:11 GMT


	I'm having problems with installing a second physical
	SCSI disk drive. My system is currently the following:
		386/25, AMI BIOS
		Seagate ST-02 controller + ST296N SCSI drive
					 + 5.25" + 3.5"

	I've been trying to add a second SCSI drive without 
	any mentionable success. I've got two different drives
	to try, but neither one of them isn't found by
        the SCSI controller.

	My original ST296N drive is installed at the end of the 
	SCSI cable with the terminal resistors and SCSI-Id set to 0.

	The first drive I tried was a Quantum Prodrive 40S.
	I unplugged the terminal resistors, set the SCSI-Id into 1,
	and shorted the parity jumper on the drive. The motor of
	the drive is jumpered so, that it starts automatically at 
	power-on. 

	With this installation, only my original drive is found.
	At power-up, I can see the LEDs of (in this order)
	drive A (5.25"), B (3.5"), C (ST296N) and finally the 
	Qunatum drive to flash. Both of the hard drives start
	their motors ok. But, after the Banner 
		"Seagate SCSI BIOS ..."
	There is the announcement: "1 SCSI drive found".

	With the second drive (NEC D3841), terminal resistors
	unplugged (with a DIP-switch) and configuration as above,
	there's only one (major) difference. Neither one of the
	drives is found. As above, the Id numbers are set ok.

	I even tried single-drive installations with the original 
	ST296N drive unplugged. There was no luck in this either.
	The message was simply "No SCSI drives found".
	And yes, I did have the terminal resistors switched on
	in this experiment.

	What could I be missing here ?

	Or is the ST-02 controller so stupid (Yeah, I know, I should
	get a decent one), that it can only control Seagate Paired
	Program drives ?

			Thanks in advance,
					  Sami
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From: tgt@neon.ecn.purdue.edu (Conan the Librarian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Advice on harddisk upgrade sought
Keywords: IDE vs SCSI
Date: 27 Jul 92 22:10:58 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

I currently have a Gateway 2000 486-33 with a 202 Mb Conner drive (IDE).
I wish to buy a second drive, probably a Fujitsu 500M.  My main question is,
should I go IDE or SCSI?  I think the SCSI interface may come in handy if
later on I decide to get a CD ROM (although I don't see this happening
anytime in the near future).  On the other hand, I am somewhat concerned
about potential problems having two different types of disk drives in my
system.  Finally, I will be using both disk drives for MSDOS and 386BSD
operating systems; I think some 386BSD software might have some special
uses for a SCSI interface.

Would anyone care to comment on the pros and cons of IDE and SCSI, in light
of the above?  Would having a SCSI interface likely be useful for other things
in the future??  (I realize this borders on a FAQ, so hopefully my questions
aren't out of place!)

Thanks.

-tom
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From: horan@cse.unl.edu (Mark Horan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Info needed on card to emulate MAC or Apple.
Keywords: MAC Apple emulate
Date: 27 Jul 92 16:51:08 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Does anyone have any info on a card to emulate MAC or Apple computers.
Please send e-mail.		
			Thanks,
				Mark


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From: jarinie@sulo.otol.fi (Jari Niemel{ T-230-3)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: SIMM information needed !!!
Date: 19 Jul 92 10:53:19 GMT
Organization: Oulu Institute of Technology, Finland

I have _some_ TMS4C1024DJ circuits and I am planning to do few SIMMs on my own.
Where (on what books) is information about SIMMS, I mean package information
pinn-info, and so on ?

Or is my idea just imagination, is that possible to do SIMMs in home ?
(( I have an opportunity to do printed-circuits with REPRO, that is not a prob!
but I dont have any, propely info about SIMMS..)
Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Monday, 27 Jul 1992 14:36:29 EDT
From: <REE700A@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Benchmark programs for fast PC's

A while ago, I posted some prelim. data on a 486/50 eisa that we are assembling
 & promised benchmarks...   Well, I got back from my 2500 mile ordeal with thre
e children (some call it a vacation) to find the Microscience SCSI drive had be
en replaced.  We were ready to do benchmarks...

    Norton SI 5.0 gave a divide error (apparently the system took less than the
 time granularity on the test).

    So, my question, in particular to anyone interested in the performance of t
his system (Orchid Prodesigner II SE, AMI FastDisk II cached SCSI, AMI-Enterpri
se II-like cloned motherboard, and Microscience 660MB SCSI-II hard disk observe
d on an NEC-3FGx monitor...) is:
     What benchmark programs should I (or can I) measure it with... ?
     What specs are people interested in?
     Where can I FTP the appropriate benchmarks?
     Does Norton 6.0 correct this "Zero-time" error?


  Jeff "Scandle" Andle
From: Tim_-_Otholt@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: On board VGA jumper selection problem
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 11:11:58 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

Quoted on the net:

>are 'Hardare Enable' and 'Hardware Disable'. Should this jumper be set to
>'Hardware Enable' to obtain the extended modes or is it another problem?   
>The BIOS is Phoenix 80386SX ROM BIOS Version 3.01. Could this be the reason
>why the extended modes do not work?
>
I am quite sure it's not the Phoenix 80386SX ROM BIOS that is the cause
of your extended video modes from working.  It's probably your video BIOS
(which may be or not be) which is the culprit or that your hardware just
doesn't work right.  I don't think it could be the monitor, since 640x400x256
is almost like text mode timings for the display, but with more colors.

Aloha,

Tim Otholt
tim_otholt@cup.portal.com
(408) 894-4290
Milpitas, CA
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh)
Subject: "flicker" and monitors
Summary: flicker and color monitor
Keywords: flicker, color monotors, beats
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 23:16:16 GMT

've been looking at some color monitors (svga) and get some wierd
effects. In particular in many stores, the white windows background 
seems to flicker- at VGA, at 800X600 but not at 1000X700 interlaced.
That same monitor will not flicker in another store, or even when driven
in VGA in DOS. They are supposed to be running at 70Hz or so (bot on a
VGAWOnderXL and a Trident card) I really do not believe that it is the 
refresh, since there is no way that you should be abloe to see 70Hz, and
furthermore the frequency of the intenisty variation is too low- it
seems to more like 10HZ rather than 50 or 70. 
Does anyone understand this? Can you get some sort of beating between
the video refresh and the 60Hz line frequency somehow on these monitors or
on the video cards?
Bill unruh
unruh@physics.ubc.ca
From: moncrg@iear.arts.rpi.edu (gregory d moncreaff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Sound Boards
Date: 21 Jul 92 19:55:21 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Organization: the committee for asethetic deletions

In article <1992Jul21.190700.7127@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> jms20@po.CWRU.Edu (John M. Sully) writes:
>
>Greetings,
>   I've been thinking about getting a sound board (sound Blaster/etc)
>for my 486/33, but really don't know what's available, so I'm 
>looking for advice on which one I should get.  Are there any boards
>available that will do 16-bit sampling?  How about stereo input/output?
>
>Any advice will be more than welcomed...
>
off hand i would suggest that you look at Media Vision's
Pro Audio Spectrum 16. for more sound board info i advise
looking in the newsgroup comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard, to
which i have redirected the follow-up
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	rensselaer polytechnic institue troy ny
	chelmsford ma
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: JWEST@r3vm.dsd.trw.com (Judson West)
Subject: Re: Is a NEC JC-1401 P3A a VGA monitor?
Organization: TRW Electronic Systems Group
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 16:18:08 GMT

In article <BETSYS.92Jul29184439@ra.cs.umb.edu>
betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz) writes:
 
>I have acquired on long-term loan a NED JC-1401P3A monitor, which I
>have attached to an ancient multisync EGA card (for which I have the
>mode-setting software but no docs)
>  1) is this monitor VGA compatible?
>  2) if so, are there any limitations or will any VGA card work?
>  3) does anyone have the switch settings? It has 5 DIP switches, a
>     Manual <->something switch and a TTL <-> Analog switch.
>
>Thanks for any advice! I am nursing along my ancient AT (until I can
>afford an X-compatible machine) and VGA would be fun!
>
>thanks, Betsy
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>Boston, MA 02125-3393                      of constant information....
 
I have this beast at home running in VGA-mode 640x480x256. I use a ATI
VGA Wonder+ w/512K. I originally used it on my AST Premimum/286 with the
AST EGA Plus card. You'll need a cable with specicial pinouts to connect
the monitor to your VGA card. You will also have to switch the TTL <->
Analog switch from TTL (for EGA) to Analog (for VGA). You will also
notice that while in MOST graphics applications (including Windows) you
will get a full screen of data. In ALL DOS-based applications, the screen
will shrink to 2/3 of full. You can make manual adjustments to correct
this but NEC says there's nothing you can do about this.
 
Lemme know what happens....
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: msc@ssigate.ssinc.com (Michael S. Cross)
Subject: Re: Making a double density 3.5 into a high density
Summary: Bad news
Organization: Systems and Synchronous Inc., Naperville, IL
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 16:24:35 GMT

In article <widow.711253492@camelot> widow@camelot.bradley.edu (Shaun Burnett) writes:
>In <tyler.brown.11@EMCB.CC.UTAH.EDU> tyler.brown@EMCB.CC.UTAH.EDU (TYLER JAMES BROWN) writes:
>
>>	I have heard that simply drilling a hole in the corner of a double
>>density 3.5in disk can make it act like a high density. Does anyone know how 
>>reliable these are?
>
>	I've been doing it for about six months with no problems.  I
>	have found that Maxell's seem to be better than Sony's.  I
>	usually format them right away, to ensure that their are no
>	bad sectors (and that the drilled hole is properly aligned).
>

Well, I guess there had to be one out there.  I agree with the other 3
three posters ... the disks are unreliable.

We tried them on a variety of machines, one AT&T 386SX would format them
consistantly, all other PCs would barf during the format.  Unfortunately,
I used this PC to diskcopy some disks, took them home and tried to install
the fonts on them in my PC -- tons of read errors.  I took the disks back
to work and did a diskcomp on them on the same AT&T PC and they failed.
BTW, that is the last time I ever did a diskcopy without doing a diskcomp
afterwards.  Of course, this was done on old disks that were used once,
NOT brand new disks that were unformatted.  I did use a bulk disk
demagnetizer them though.

I am now the proud owner of a $20 "Disk Doubler" hole punch that only
takes up room in my storage locker.  The disk demagnetizer I use from time
to time.

I did give the disks to a friend of mine with an Apple IIGS and he has been
using them at Low Density for over a year.  Once the hole is there, my IBM
clone won't read/write them as 720K anymore. :^(

Hope it helps (tm).

Mike

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From: edmoore@hp-vcd.vcd.hp.com (Ed Moore)
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 20:19:13 GMT
Subject: Zeos Pocket PC ??
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Vancouver, WA, USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware

Some questions for the Zeos folks who read this group.  I'm looking at the
ad for the new Zeos Pocket PC:  1.3 lbs, $595 (August 1992 PC Magazine, page
92).

1)  What is the keyboard spacing (obviously less than the 0.75 inch
standard)?

2)  In its standard form, data storage is accomplished only in the 1 MB RAM?

3)  How big is the optional fax/modem?  Is it 9600/2400 bps?

4)  Does Zeos sell a PCMCIA memory card?  If so, what are the MB and $.

It looks like a clever product.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: drew@juliet.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
Subject: Re: Likely FAQ.  Best Solution for SCSI/IDE on one PC.????
Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 02:13:12 GMT

In article <1992Jul27.200338.29099@cbnewse.cb.att.com> hjanssen@cbnewse.cb.att.com (hank janssen) writes:
>
>This is most likely a faq, but since i just started reading/posting to
>this newsgroup so i hope the net will forgive me my ignorance.
>
>I have a 486/33Mhz with a 210 IDE Mb harddisk, I have on there  a  150
>Mb unix partition and two 25 Mb MSDOS partitions. Is  it  possible  to
>hook  up another SCSI disk to this machine. (I have a 210 Mb SCSI disk
>laying around.

Yes.

>
>If so, what kind of (extra.??) controller do i need.

SCSI.

>Will i get strange system behaviour.

No.

>Has  anybody  done  this  before,  if so what are the experiences with
>it.??? 

Yes.  It works well. With swap on a separate drive / controller from
your other files, you get better performance when paging under Unix.

>
>Any help is very much apreciated.
>

Get an ADAPTEC 154x.  Drivers are available for most Unices, even
the two free Unixes (The Jolitz port of BSD and Linux).   Support 
for other boards is harder to come by.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: tvilla@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Tim Villa)
Subject: Re: DOS 5 problems1
Organization: University of Western Australia
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 07:41:45 GMT

jagged@wkuvx1.bitnet writes:

>I am trying to install dos 5.0 on my zenith 286/8mhz machine. I copied
>the command.com, config.sys, and autoexec.bat from dos 5 and put them
>in my root directory. I then set the path in the autoexec to the dos 5
> directory but when I boot it gives me the
>incorrect dos version error. What am I overlooking?


Whoops whoops whoops I forgot the IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS files. These are
hidden so you probably didn't copy them. They are the actual operating
system files (COMMAND.COM is just an interpreter/loader) so what you
were doing was running a DOS 5 program (COMMAND.COM) while using DOS 4
or whatever you had before. Delete the old .SYS files and copy the new
ones (without rebooting in between!)

Tim Villa
tvilla@tartarus.uwa.edu.au

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ahoekstr@cs.utwente.nl (Andre Hoekstra)
Subject: 2nd Monitor at 100 metres
Followup-To: poster
Organization: University of Twente, Dept. of Computer Science, NL
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 15:36:10 GMT

Hi.
During the world's largest estafette(=relay race?) (Batavieren-race,
over 6000 participants, see Guiness Book of Records) I have to gather
as quickly as possible a preliminary ranking.
We do this by timing all runners at several points along the track. The
timing-data is read into a computer (PC/XT/AT/?86 whatever) and
simultaneously sent by packet-radio to a second computer near the finish.

Most of the software is up and running and we're up to adding some
extra's. One of these is a second monitor which continuously shows
the last 10 teams arrived at the relay-point and the teams ranking 
1 through 10.

Of course we don't want this monitor close to our own car or near the 
computer near the finish-line, because of the curious crowd gathering
around this screen to see how they have done so far.

What we _do_ want is this:
	A PC with a (colour) monitor
	a second monitor, connected using about 100 m. coaxial cable
	while the monitor's power supply (12V= )is via the same cable
	the 2nd monitor should be capable of displaying 40x25 characters

As you might guess, we're aiming at using a composite video signal,
probably from an CGA-card.

Can anybody tell me (in rough technical terms, we're at a university and we
can get the Electr(on)ical Engineers to work for us) what video-cards
combinations we can use, how we can have both the power and video-signal
over the same cable and if there are any alternatives.

Remember, we have to power the second monitor from the van, because there
are little power outlets in trees and we cannot wake up anybody in the
darkest of night just because of a second power outlet.

Thanks in advance,
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.misc,uky.misc
From: johnr@mik.uky.edu (john s roberts)
Subject: Hard Disk (ARRL) expansion options?
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 14:55:13 GMT

System Specifications:  386sx/16, 2 megs RAM, 40 meg HD, hercules.

I recently ran the Norton Utility which tests your hard drive and tells
you what type of disk and controler you have.  It reported that I have
an ARRL controler/disk.  I do not understand too much about hard disks
and controler, but would like to increase the hard disk capacity in my machine
and was wondering if anyone could tell me what my options are.  Price
is the major concern, and I would prefer not to have to change the 
controler, however if you feel that the benefits are great enough to
warrant it, I will definitly ider it.  I would like to increase
the capacity by at least 60 megabytes.

Thank you so much for your help.
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From: singlis@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: DUAL MONITORS! Problem rebooting! HELP!
Date: 28 Jul 92 11:05:53 +1200
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

I have a 386/33 Mhz machine with a trident 8900cs card, and a
brand new hercules graphics card. (also 1 serial/par & int.modem)

When I reboot (alt-ctrl-del), the hercules card shows a capital N tilde
in the top left of the mono screen and the machine won't reboot 
properly.

The CMOS reports "error", press F1 to continue, F2 to setup etc.

It's a Phoenix bios.

Can you help????

-Stuart