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From: palane@iastate.edu (Paul A. Lane)
Subject: Re: Why memory costs doubled
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:59:12 GMT

In <C0n9Cx.5Gv@icon.rose.hp.com> scott@mothra.rose.hp.com (Scott Bobo) writes:

>And while everyone applaudsour government's domestic efforts at "trust-
>busting" and "free trade", our government continues to permit free access
>to our market for two of the largest cartels in the world:  Mid-east Oil
>and Far East Memory.

I'm not sure what one has to do with the other. OPEC exists to keep oil
prices high and is a (collapsing) government cartel. However, let's re-
strict the discussion to issues related to computers.

I'm glad you said Far East memory. South Korea is busily undercutting the
Japanese at the moment. If S.K. manages to dominate memory for awhile, 
someone else will take the market from them. 

                  <Various references to MITI deleted>

You need to keep up on your geography. There are no agreements among memory
producers in different countries (by the way, don't forget Siemans [Germany]).
I'm not going to bother with a detailed rebuttal. Among other matters, your
arguments are outdated (several years). Memory is an example of a U.S. in-
dustry whose clock was cleaned. Microprocessors and computers are a counter-
example. Far Eastern companies were getting crushed by nimble U.S. manufac-
turers. That's why Hyundai (S.K.) moved its entire design and production
facilities to the U.S. What comes around goes around.

>The reason that Japan is so obviously successful in this war and the United
>States is not is that the government of Japan has adopted tactics appropriate
>to the world market of the 90's, while the United States is still saddled
>with  policy dating back to the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.

What bothers me about these sorts of arguments is that they are irrelevent
to U.S. competitiveness. I think you have a valid point about MITI. However,
I don't think that we should adopt the oligopolistic systems of economics
that Japan has. It doesn't fit the strengths of our culture. There are ex-
amples of failed cooperatives.

>Open your eyes.

Wide open.

>Scott

Paul
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From: gbrooksh@comanche.ess.harris.com (Greg Brookshire)
Subject: Re: Looking for comments on CompuSys..
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:11:39 GMT
Reply-To: gbrooksh@comanche.ess.harris.com
Organization: Harris Corporation, Government Aerospace Systems Division


I'm considering buying a 486 machine by mail order, but know nothing about
some of the companies I see advertised in Computer Shopper.

Does anybody have any comments on a company called CompuSys?

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From: jzarin@jade.tufts.edu (The Zarinator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: STB info wanted
Date: 12 Jan 93 01:30:34 GMT
Reply-To: zarin@econ.sscnet.ucla.edu
Distribution: usa
Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA

In its latest roundup of video cards, PC Mag gave a semi-favorable review
to STB's new Powergraph X-24.  Has anyone seen this card yet and have an
opinion?

What about STB in general?  How is their quality, technical support, driver
availibility and updating, etc?

Thanks.

Jason
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From: pieterh@sci.kun.nl (Peter Herweijer)
Subject: Re: Any software besides bios setup for setting bus speed?
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:39:14 GMT

In <1itppuINN758@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> bo@horus.cem.msu.EDU (Bo Peng) writes:

>Hi,
>Does any of you know of any program allowing you to change bus speed?
>My (Award) bios doesn't give me the option.

I'm sorry to say this, but you can forget it. The problem is not the
BIOS, but the chipset.  It is the manufacturer of the board that tells
the BIOS company (Award) what options there are available on the
hardware and how they are accessed from software, and Award then
writes corresponding setup code.  If your board manufacturer hasn't
told Award to include a bus speed option, it probably ain't there at
all.  And even if it's there, there is no standard way to control a
chipset so there won't be any programs around that can do such a
thing, except maybe from the board manufacturer. If you want to know,
try to contact them.

Peter Herweijer
pieterh@sci.kun.nl
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From: vohaul@spock.uucp (Razvan Surdulescu)
Subject: Wanted : 386 SX motherboard
Organization: Choate Rosemary Hall
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 15:01:44 GMT

Newsgroups: misc.forsale.computers
Subject: Wanted : 386 SX motherboard
Summary: 
Followup-To: none
Distribution: world
Organization: Choate Rosemary Hall
Keywords:none
From vohaul@choate.edu

I am looking to buy a 386 SX mother board with the following specs :

- 386 SX miscroprocessor at 25 or 33 Mhz (Would accept 16 Mhz with coproc)
- At least 2 Meg of ram (Preferable SIMMS)
- Upgradable (Memory , Coprocessor etc.)
- At least 6 expansion slots
- Not older than one year and in good condition

If you have a reasonable offer please drop a letter to
             vohaul@choate.edu
Also , I would like as much information about the board as possible , besides
my specific questions.

Thanx.
 


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From: pja@ralph.lafayette.la.us (Pete Alleman)
Subject: Looking for small multi-port serial card
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 03:50:20 GMT
Organization: Consulting

I'm looking for a small (half or 3/4 card) multi-port serial card.
I would like an 8 port intelligent board with support for Unix and
MS-DOS.

Everything I've found so far is a full length board.  Unfortunately,
the notebook PC's that we use don't have room for full length boards.

Any ideas?

-- 
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	pja@ralph.lafayette.la.us
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From: mhemy+@cs.cmu.edu (Michael Hemy)
Subject: ATI Ultra PRO New Drivers (build 53) 
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 21:07:32 GMT

I see my previous message didn't make it (at least my signature was
sent :-)

So here it goes:
ATI has uploaded its BBS with a new release of the drivers for the ATI
ULTRA PRO. This is a BETA release, version 1.1 build 53. I have
downloaded it from their BBS (1-416-756-4591). 

It seems to be (so far) a better release then the build 50, with which
I had problems in windows. As ATI says itself, this is not the final
release and there are more things that need to be done; they have even 
scheduled future releases.

--Michael

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From: pott@nun.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Ruediger Pott)
Subject: [Q] What will Adaptec AHA1542_C_ look like ???
Organization: /home/pott/.organization
Distribution: comp
Date: 5 Jan 93 10:16:24


Hi,

I've heard about rumours that Adaptec will soon release the Version C
of the SCSIController AHA1542. 
Does anyone know more details about this new board? Will there be a
new design or just an upgrade of the old one? Will it still be
compatible with all the 1542B software ?

Thanks, Ruediger
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From: johnn@eskimo.com (John Navitsky)
Subject: Stupid floppy drive hardware question!
Organization: =>ESKIMO NORTH (206) 367-3837 SEATTLE, WA.<=
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 08:15:44 GMT

Hello,

I've a silly question.  I have a system that has a 3.5" and 5.25" floppy
disks.  I'd like to remove the 5.25" (so I can use it's bay).  The
system uses a combined floppy / hd controller.  The fd's are controlled
by a ribbon cable that has connectors for both floppy disks.  Disconnecting
the 5.25" results in the system complaining about a FD controller failure.
examination of the drives does not revial any obvious terminators, etc.
I was able to note that the drives appear to work when swapped positions
on the cable.  Note it did not help when I re-configured the bios setup
to tell it the 5.25" was not there.  Any thoughts would be appreciated!
Thanks!

-john

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From: cwatters@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Coyt D Watters)
Subject: 2 IDE drives
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 16:08:26 GMT

This is/should be a FAQ question, but since I couldn't find a FAQ....

I have a Magnavox 386sx/16 with an 80mb IDE drive.

My CMOS setup has selections for 2 IDE drives, the second is set at 
[none].

Can I just hook up another IDE drive and change the CMOS, or do I have to 
bother with the master/slave problems I've read about?

-Coyt


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From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Subject: Re: Gateway Simms - 9 bit or 36 bit?
Keywords: SIMMS
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 16:16:30 GMT

sasbge@ant.unx.sas.com (Gantt Edmiston) writes:


>>Also, is it wise to get them from a mail-order place and if so, does anyone
>>know of any which price these competitively?

>These Simms are new to the market and I have yet to find any *deals*.

Try:
Stratum Technologies
Austin, TX
800-533-1744
512-258-3570
Contact: Ted, Mike
1x36-70ns        4 Mb SIMM      $142
2x36-70ns        8 Mb SIMM      $280
4x36-70ns       16 Mb SIMM      $625

(These were in November, they have moved down a bit I think)
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From: drosera@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Donald Burden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: What is MCGA?
Date: 10 Jan 1993 19:04:50 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization
NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu

In article <10JAN199310055249@utarlg.uta.edu> b645zjo@utarlg.uta.edu (Rick Homard) writes:
>I recently got some software which requires either an EGA, MCGA, or VGA
>video adapters.  What is MCGA?  

MCGA is used in the IBM PS/2 model 25 computer (an 8086 or 80286 system).  It
is basically compatible to VGA mode with 360x200 resolution x 256 colors.
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From: kueng_j@roggwil.be.tech.ascom.ch (Jakob Kueng)
Subject: Info about WD93044-A harddisk
Keywords: harddisk
Organization: Ascom Tech Ltd., CH-3018 Berne, Switzerland
Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:28:24 GMT


Hi,

I have a problem with my harddisk. I bought a second one and now I dont
know how to configurate the WD-93044 for working in a 2-disk environement
as a master.

Any help will be appreciated


JACK

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From: cn0cu8ah@triton.unm.edu (The Realist)
Subject: Any dealers of RISC systems in Computer Shopper?
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 93 05:46:23 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Summary: Computer Shopper vendors and RISC systems
Distribution: usa
Keywords: RISC, Computer Shopper

  Hello:

  Does anybody know which dealers/vendors advertising in Computer
  Shopper offer/sell computers based on RISC cpus? If so, can you
  provide me with their names? I know that Compuadd offers a RISC
  system(s) and I would like to know if anybody else sells these
  things. Thanks for your time and response.

  Regards,

  Alex (cn0cu8ah@triton.unm.edu)


   




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From: linda@cs.su.oz.au (Linda Distributed Language)
Subject: Info on old memory board
Organization: Basser Department of Computer Science
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 23:23:46 GMT

I recently bought an old 286 (a kaypro 286i) for parts. It came with a memory 
expansion board.
The board appears to be 512k of extended memory, using 36 64x2 drams. As it
stands it isn't much good to me. The card has the following on it:

ATD SUNNYVALE	MODEL ZATMBYTE

It is an at bus card, and appears to have a 60pin IDC connector on the front end.
It has a couple of jumpers on it. What I want to know, is can it be configured
to take more than 512k, using different chips.
Any info at all would be nice.

	David Monro

(Please reply by email...)
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From: th@cci632.cci.com (Tim Hinton)
Subject: Acer Monitors
Organization: [Computer Consoles, Inc., Rochester, NY
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 13:38:18 GMT

Has anyone ever heard of these Monitors or know of there quality?

Thanks
From: peter@globv1.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Conner CP30204, please can someone provide pinout?
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 23:51:32 GMT
Organization: Global Village 1

Hi!

Please, can someone provide me with the pinout of a Conner CP30204 harddisk?
I need to connect a second harddisk to it, but I can't find any information
on the 'beast'...
From: c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: no game port on Gateway 2k systems?
Date: 5 Jan 93 20:02:54 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Delco Electronics Corp.

In article <C0EBF5.EHL@andy.bgsu.edu> sarnold@andy.bgsu.edu (G. Steve Arnold) writes:
>	If they're still shipping with the WD multi-port HD controller, the 
>game port is built in. You just need to have them send you a joystick connector
>to plug into the card and you're set. You could also probably pick one up at
>a decent parts store for about a buck. If none of these workd, I'd just go 
>out and get a Kraft joystick card for about $10 US. 

It's a funny situation. A year back a friend and myself bought G2000's,
I got the desktop (stupid me, it's huge) and my friend bought the
tower. Both 486/33's.

Both had the WD multi-port HD controller; mine had a joystick port in the
back of the machine while my friend's only had it on the card but no
space to plug it onto the box. He called Gateway to have one sent but
I think they didn't sent it (or they did not have such a piece). Finally
he bought a game card.

 
Spiros
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From: zen@max.u.washington.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Dis"Disk missing from DOS"
Date: 5 Jan 93 07:37:59 GMT
Article-I.D.: max.1993Jan4.233759.1
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: max.u.washington.edu


      I recently acquired a 386 from a person who was selling his.  The 
only problem is that even though it had DOS installed it was missing the
third disk.  We went through his collection and found out that his master
was damaged and were unable to put it on my system.  I want to use dosshell
but am unable to do it since I can't expand the video config. for a mono 
monitor. (expand was on the third disk)  What is the best and least 
expensive way for me to get expand.
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From: dawson@cs.cornell.edu (Dawson Dean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: PC Multiprocessors with Shared Memory
Date: 5 Jan 93 21:56:56 GMT
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853


   I would like to connect several (2 to 4) PC's together through
shared memory. The goal is to get bus level speeds while transferring
blocks of data. I would probably be running some flavor of Unix on the
PC's. I have written and measured software on networked Sun's, and
network speeds are far too slow for what I want (on our local net,
we are finding around 10ms per 1024 byte UDP packet). I am trying to
find out if I can get faster speeds through a bus. A friend suggested
that I connect two disk controllers together to make an asynchronous channel;
plug one disk controller into each pc and a cable directly connects them
so instead of talking to a disk it talks to the other controller. Somebody
else suggested I try a similar trick but using video cards and processors
each use an unused part of video ram as a shared buffer.

   All I need is an asynchronous communication channel (no clock sharing
or anything), that effectively allows me to do a fast read and write
blocks bewteen two PC's. Really, the shared memory would be used like a
very fast net. Currently, my software uses asynchronous UDP
packets, so I hope to just rewrite that low level stuff to handle asynch
packets through this shared bus buffer. I am not too worried about the
system software end, but what really worries me is the hardware so I am
looking for a solution that requires as little hardware as possible. 
I want to build simple hardware and write a lot of software.

   Ideally, I want some mix of cables and cards to connect two PC's. Does
such a thing commercially exist? Can I go to a store and buy one? If not,
then I assume that this has been built by various people. Where can
I find out more about some of these implementations? Is there a standard
way to do this? Does anybody have any suggestions about connecting disk
controllers together? Could I do something with a shared scsi bus? Can I
mate two scsi controller cards? Any advice suggestions or ideas would be
greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Dawson Dean
dawson@cs.cornell.edu


   
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From: awhite@aurora.cis.upenn.edu (Andrew White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Comments on Adaptec 1522?
Date: 12 Jan 93 23:58:08 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <sheldon.726862167@pv141b.vincent.iastate.edu> sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon) writes:
>In <1993Jan12.114843.26679@sei.cmu.edu> gjp@sei.cmu.edu (George Pandelios) writes:
>
> One caveat on the 1522 vs. the 1542.  The 1542 is better supported and
>faster.  This is probably not a big problem for you unless you're planning
>on running some form of Unix, or maybe OS/2, or other operating system
>besides DOS.

The 1542 is indeed faster and more widely supported, but!!!!! the 1542
will _not_ work on ISA systems with more than 16MB of RAM (this was
confirmed by Adaptec tech support).  Because of the RAM limitation
(which is due to the way bus-mastering works on the ISA bus), I
had to buy the slower, less expensive 1522 since I plan on having
more than 16MB soon.  The new line of ATI Graphic Pro's also have
the same problem -- and they require you to have TWELVE megabytes or
less.
-- 
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From: twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Non-tape backup systems for the PC
Date: 4 Jan 1993 20:59:52 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Civil Engineering, U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: sam.civil.ubc.ca

Hello all. We have a prof in our department who wishes to look into what
systems are available for PC backup. He has many megabytes of data
and more as research continues and he'd like to have some sort of
permanent backup systems so that this data can be used for years to
come. We already have tape drives but the drawback of tapes is that they
sometimes break, and they are magnetic hence is still not safe under
heavy usage (many students retrieving data over the years to come).

Has other research institutions/universities face this problem of
permanent data storage (and I don't mean hardcopy :))? What do you use
for your data backup system? Any words on WORM systems? Optical drives?
Writeable CDs?

Thanks in advance.

Thomas.

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From: tdbear@dvorak.amd.com (Thomas D. Barrett)
Subject: Re: 386DX/40 VS. 486SX/25
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Texas
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 14:16:35 GMT

In article <4566.73.uupcb@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us> victor.volkman@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us (Victor Volkman)  writes:
>Can anyone give me a coherent answer as to which would be faster and
>why?  I have NO interest in any math coprocessors.

Since you are not interested in the COP (for others... the 387/40 runs
under $100 and the OverDrive(tm) runs much over $100, but the
OverDrive is obviously much faster.  You might be able to find a 487sx
which would be cheaper than the OverDrive(tm))... the only advantage
that I see is the local bus speed.  If done correctly (0ws) you would
have a much faster video and memory interface.  Even if done
incorrectly (1ws), you would have a system which was 5ns faster for
each access.

Choose the board with the fastest main memory access time... NOT clock
speed.
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From: ah@doc.ic.ac.uk (Angelo Haritsis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: HELP! magnetised screen
Date: 8 Jan 93 17:44:43 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London
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In <1993Jan07.213900.29795@donau.et.tudelft.nl> rene@hal.et.tudelft.nl (Rene Bodenstaff) writes:

>  To put it short: Your CRT is f***ed up really badly!!! And because you are
>  not able to open the tube to straighten the mesh again, it will be difficult
>  to get things ok again.
This was not the case. According to other people's suggestions (and yours),
which I am thankful for, the use of a magnet brought the monitor completely
back to the state it was before the problem. The 'voodoo magic' method appeared 
to be very effective in my case!
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