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From: Nikolai_Waldman@p27.atb.bbs.bad.se (Nikolai Waldman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Connecting a HD-drive?
Date: Tue,  3 Nov 92 23:23:24 +0000
Reply-To: Nikolai_Waldman@p27.atb.bbs.bad.se (Nikolai Waldman)
Distribution: world
Organization: Nickname, Torsby, Sweden 
OD-Comment-To: All

Can anybody tell me if it is possible to connect a HD-drive to my
A2000? If so, then how?

Regards Nikolai


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Every time I meet a famous person, there is one less.
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From: DrAllosaurus@cup.portal.com (Samuel DrAllosaurs Crider)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: HELP:  Anybody got "Super DJC" driver for DeskJet 500C?
Date: Thu,  5 Nov 92 21:45:17 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: na
  <1992Nov3.222914.60369@cc.usu.edu>

>Super_DJC vs PD Drivers for HP DESKJET 500C

I have experimented a little with a couple PD drivers and found them
roughly equal to S_DJC. None of them produce a very pleasing substitute
of a true black. I have not worked hard on some of the finer points of        
software control for the PD drivers. Not enough hours in the day. I have      
found that the S_DJC can easily be adjusted through the Amiga Pref. For
example I have them set with threshold and density maxed out. This improves
the "black" from a sickly green to a washed out pale grey. A relative 
improvement to say the least.

We use the printer 99.9% for graphics so I know little of the text and font
features of the drivers.

So that's some more data if not a clear cut answer. I think this is
definitely a printer you learn to live with. My budget doesn't have room
for anything better so I'm going to have to.

Samuel "Dr.Allosaurus" Crider 
Computer Graphics Lab Coordinator
Columbia College Chicago
drallosaurus@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: mathers@sibelius.trl.oz.au (Steven Mathers)
Subject: Re: Amiga 1200
Reply-To: s.mathers@trl.oz.au
Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 02:17:45 GMT

In article <BxEyw0.Hoz@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>, cree@elec.canterbury.ac.nz (Michael Cree) writes:
|> Dr Peter Kittel Germany (peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com) wrote:
|> : In article <Paula_Lieberman.0702@amicol.UUCP> Paula_Lieberman@amicol.UUCP (Paula Lieberman) writes:
|> : 
|> : Hmm, I always considered Agnus a male name. And I myself don't object to
|> 
|> You considered wrong. Agnus is a female name and Angus is a male name.
|> 
|> : Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to \\  Only my personal opinions...

Can we consign this ridiculous thread to alt.who-gives-a-shit ?  Im
trying to follow Re:1200 posts to decide whether or not to buy one, and I
dont need to wade through this.
From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Picking up HAM radio transmissions on A3000
Date: Sat,  7 Nov 92 19:42:48 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>My father has a HAM radio with a serial port.  He bought it under the presumpt
i
>on
>that he had seen a program that allows you to connect HAM Radio via the
>serial port, and tune in on the weather satellites.  I vaguely remember seeing
>something to that effect a while ago also, but I have yet to find it.
>Does anyone know if such a program exists or not, and where I can find it?

There exists somewhere on Portal (I'm not sure about any FTP sites) an
archive called icomcontrol.lzh that is a demo called "ScanDemo."  One point
you should know - it is for Icom radios using the CI-V interface only.

Other than that, I know nothing about it (I have never used it, only played
with the user interface).  It appeared to have lots of scan options, etc.

>--
>#######################################################################
># Bob Campbell                 #  Bite the wax tadpole.               #
># rcampbell@cudnvr.denver.     #                   - what "Coca-Cola" #
>#           colorado.edu       #                     translates as    #
># rsc@hao.ucar.edu             #                     in Chinese.      #
>#######################################################################
>DISCLAIMER: "My views are not necessarily those of my employer."

-Joel
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  / Joel E. Swan....Pres./...Media Specialties, Ltd., Oak Forest, IL.USA  /
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/ Portal ID: joeles..../...joeles@cup.portal.com                        /
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From: bj@cbmvax.commodore.com (Brian Jackson - Amiga Networking)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: PC, Redneck President, and other bad news. (was Re: Amiga 1200)
Date: 5 Nov 92 18:19:08 GMT
Reply-To: bj@cbmvax.commodore.com (Brian Jackson - Amiga Networking)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <1d9i8gINN9i7@mozz.unh.edu> ggg@kepler.unh.edu (Gregory G Greene) writes:
>'>Y'all ready for another redneck to screw things up again like Jimmy did?  If
>'>you're going to buy a computer, buy it now, because you'll not be able to
>'>once that stupid hillbilly gets in office.  Hope you folks in the more
>'>prosperous states like it when the whole nation is as poor and in as sorry
>'>as state as that podunk buck-toothed son-of-a-bitch's home state is.
>'>This sucks.
>'>
>'>Skip Sauls, Not Politically Correct and Damn Proud of It!
>'>skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu
>
>	I'm preparing myself for 2 things, TAX and SPEND.  I figure it won't
>   take Congress and their newly elected buddy to long before they start
>   raising everybodies income tax, along with every other type of tax that
>   they can get there hands on or create.  Look for national gun control 
>   also, one more freedom down the drain.
>
>							Greg Greene

Oh brother.

I'm preparing myself for just one thing - adding to my kill file the names
of those who, like Marc Barrett before them, can't figure out that what
"sucks" here is the posting of all this political tripe and whining to a
news group for _Amiga_ _hardware_.

I suspect that 99.99999% of the folks who read this group couldn't care
less what you or Skip or Marc think about politics. Take it all to
alt.someone_who_cares.

       +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +
       Brian Jackson    Amiga Networking Group, Commodore-Amiga Inc.
                        bj@cbmvax.commodore.com
     {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!bj    or   networking@cbmvax.commodore.com
                       uva uvam vivendo varia fit
From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Connecting a HD-drive?
Date: Sat,  7 Nov 92 19:50:30 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

>Can anybody tell me if it is possible to connect a HD-drive to my
>A2000? If so, then how?

Buy one of CBM's dual speed HD drives and plug it in.  That "simple."
(Have fun trying to get one ;-) (No- you can't have 1 of my 2)

>Regards Nikolai
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>* Fido-Net: 2:203/602.27                       * Nikolai Waldman *
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>Every time I meet a famous person, there is one less.

PS - No, IBM HD drives will NOT work - not with the current Paula.

-Joel
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/ Portal ID: joeles..../...joeles@cup.portal.com                        /
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From: FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Floppy size in 1200?
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 20:00:28 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <phill.01v4@nebula.equinox.gen.nz> <1992Nov10.141616.9653@ifi.uio.no>

About this guy who ranted for the lack of an HD drive in the 1200:

Cut him some slack!  Staying with the 880K drive is no problem in the
Amiga market and may have been necessary to hit the price point since
the 1200 is not aimed at business markets.  *BUT*  (notice how big 
this 'but' is??)  I can attest personally to the fact that double
density drives are becoming a thing of the past in the Clone
world and Macintoshes are following suit.  Which means that 1200 you
bought as a home computer will be a real pain in the butt to use on
projects from sork since you will have to remember to keep some DD
disks handy for data transfers.  I do this already (exchange clone,
Amiga, SUN and Mac!) and keeping all the disks straight is an extra
chore.  The clones and the SUN don't care since they read both DD and
HD DOS floppies.  The Amiga only reads DD and the Mac only HD.  It
would be very handy to have new Amigas read and write the HD disks.

Certainly the business Amigas *must* have HD capability.  But I hope
all you students and home enthusiasts can see where compatibility
is more than just a marketing issue.

(thenk yew for yer support)

Dana Bourgeois
felinegrace@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: manacsa@l13ff.jsc.nasa.gov (Gerry Manacsa)
Subject: Re: Why did CBM even bother with the 600?
Organization: Lockheed Engineering & Sciences Co.
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 17:43:54 GMT

In article <36685@cbmvax.commodore.com>, grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:

[misc stuff deleted for brevity]
> 
> The part you're missing is that we've been shipping the A600 in Europe
> for almost a 9 months  now, so it's already a successful product, not
> something we just finished and are about to release.
> 
[etc.]

I realize that exact sales figures are top secret, but can you divulge what
order of magnitude you're talking about when you say the 600 is a 
successful product?  Is it selling at roughly the same rate the A500
was, in its heyday?  Just curious...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: jerry@cs.mcgill.ca (Gerald (Jerry) KUCH)
Subject: Re: PC, Redneck President, and other bad news. (was Re: Amiga 1200)
Organization: SOCS - McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 16:23:46 GMT

In article <BxDu40.GHv@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
>In article <1992Nov6.231433.26938@zip.eecs.umich.edu> gilgalad@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin) writes:
>>It is pure arrogance on a presidents part to blame Congress for
>>nothing being accomplished.  The idea is that the President is supposed to work
>>with the Congress, not against it.  Bush and Reagan consistenly put
>>forth proposals which they knew Congress would never deal with.
>>Congress did exactly the same.  Bush even put forth 7 proposals, which
>>Congress went with which Bush then vetoed 6 of them.
>
>   Can you say "rider amendments"?  I knew you could!  Whenever President 
>Bush would sent a proposal to Congress, the Congresscum would attach things
>like abortion legalization measures or tax increases to it.  It would be nice
>if the President could get the Congress to write the bills exactly as the
>President wants them and then vote on them that way, but he cannot do that.
>By the same token, you cannot blame the President for vetoing a bill that
>he proposed because in most cases it is NOT what he proposed.  Hopefully, 
>President Clinton will use the fact that his party controls all of Congress
>to get line-item veto power for the President for good.
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Terrific.  Why don't we abandon Congress entirely?



-- 
 Jerry Kuch (jerry@cs.mcgill.ca)  |  Author of "Death By Boredom" Vols I - IX
 "I was wrong to play God.  Life is precious, not a thing to be toyed with.
  Now take out that brain and flush it down the toilet."
                  --- M. Burns  "Treehouse of Horror II"
From: stigo@ifi.uio.no (Stig Arne Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: 14.xx & 7.xx Mhz, why?
Date: 5 Nov 92 22:42:46 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Keywords: 68000
Originator: stigo@holmenkollen.ifi.uio.no


Can some guru :-) here tell me why C= are clocking the processors below what
they were made for? They do not seem to do it with the faster processors,
but why are the Mc68000 just 7 and Mc68020 in the A1200 14Mhz? Has it something
to do with dma-cycle timing? And why are the 68030 in the A3000 running at the
full 25Mhz, if this is a problem?

Thanks,
-- 
Stig A. Olsen  |  stigo@ifi.uio.no  |  "Ja til EF"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: g.coulter@daresbury.ac.uk (Claire Radlett)
Subject: A4000 -=> 68EC040
Reply-To: g.coulter@daresbury.ac.uk
Organization: Daresbury Laboratory, UK
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 10:34:21 GMT

Hi Everyone.

I have heard a report that not all A4000's have the full blown 68040 CPU
and instead have the 68EC040 CPU ( The cut down version ). Can anyone 
tell me if this is true, and if so are the machines marked different. I
am going to buy an A4000 in the next four months and I want all the raw
smoking power of the 68040.

Thanks Claire.

PP Gary. 



Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: matija@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Matija Milostnik)
Subject: Re: Names (was Re: Amiga 1200)
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Summary: Who is the coulprit
Keywords: Amiga, names
Organization: Informatik Club d. Universitaet, Zuerich
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:48:55 GMT

In article <36809@cbmvax.commodore.com> mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz) writes:
>davidme@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au (David Meiklejohn) writes:
>>In article <BxEyw0.Hoz@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz> cree@elec.canterbury.ac.nz (Michael Cree) writes:
>>The chip now called Agnus (actually, Fat Agnus, then Super Agnus and now
>>Alice), used to be called Agnes in Commodore's official docs - at least, it
>>was on the A1000.  In the earliest days, as well as Agnes, we had Daphne (now
>>Denise) and Portia (now Paula).  Does anyone know why the names were changed?
>
>To protect the innocent...  (;-)

This seems a bit wired, since my 'undercover agent' tells me:

[secret report form 'undercover agent']
[From: rogue@cellar.org (Rachel McGregor)]

Well, it's a little more complicated than that.  Agnes and Paula have been
together since the beginning, but Ramsey dumped Denise after going out for
only a couple months.  Denise got miffed and turned to Gary, who'd been
fending off Buster's advances for almost a year.  They've had an on-again
off-again relationship (mostly on) since then.  

Buster and Ramsey?  Well, that's not a well-publicized story.  Nothing
really happened between them, at leat not that way, but they hung out
together for a while mostly trading nasty stories about Gary.  Now all they
do is sit around looking for interesting GIFs on the hard drive.  And
complain about not having the same taste in files.
[end of secret report]
           
I guess it will end with the driver beeing guilty....

Bye
  Matija
>|      /// Michael Sinz  -  Senior Amiga Systems Engineer              |
-- 
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From: Don_-_Hirschfeld@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: SupraWordSync/Tape Backup Problems
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 12:25:53 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

I just got an Archive 2525s tape drive attached to my A2000 with a Supra
WordSync controller (Series III ROM 3.8 AMA B6). When I try to backup with
Amiback v2.0f using the A2000 fitted with an A2630 boards, the program
locks up. If I go to 68000 mode, everything works fine (but a lot slower).
I called Moonlight tech support and they said it was a bug in the older 
version of the driver/ROM. Anyone have the newer version which runs a similar
drive in 68030 mode? Supra is impossible to get a hold of. I tried 
Quarterback abd it runs fine with the 030. Amiback tech said they use a
different backup routine for faster speed which causes the problem.
From: Rick_Lang@amusers.UUCP (Rick Lang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Binddrivers problem with A2090 and 2.04
Distribution: world
Date: 8 Nov 92 15:40:18 PST
Organization: AmUsers - The Amiga Users Group of Victoria BC

In a message dated Sun  8 Nov 92  2:48, hbo@netcom.com (Howard Owen) wrote:

 HO>     I've run into a problem reinstalling my old A2090 (NOT A2090a)
 HO> with attached ST251 HD onto my rev 4.3 B2000 after upgrading to OS
 HO> 2.04. If you haven't paniced at the sight of all the rev numbers in

No problem, I have this setp except I have a Rev 4 German A2000.

 HO> with the brand new A2090 ST506/SCSI controller. My hddisk driver
 HO> dates
 HO> from the 1.3 release. I'm using the 1.3 FFS.

Why 1.3 FFS?  I switched to the improved WB2.04 ROM internal FastFileSystem
and you should too.  That means changing your hddisk files in your
expansion drawer to those that on your WB2 disks (Install disk?); just copy
them into SYS:Expansion and Binddrivers will be happy.  You'll be able to
Mount in your Startup-sequence or user-startup file.

 HO> FF0:
 HO>     Device = hddisk.device
 HO>     LowCyl = 3  ;  HighCyl = 819
 HO>     Buffers = 30
 HO>     GlobVec = -1
         ~~~~~~~~~~~~
Remove any reference to Global Vectors when using the internal WB2 ROM
FastFileSystem.

 HO>     StackSize = 4000

I doubt it's necessary but I use a 6000 byte Stack.

 HO>     Mount = 1
 HO>     DosType = 0x444F5301

Everything else appears to be equivalent to my definition so you should be
fine.  I see we both kept Cylinder 2 for the old file system default DH0
partition which the old A2090 requires.  Do not ever mount of reference
that partition though as I'm sure you have not; I didn't even format it
under WB2, just leave it alone.  Perhaps someone else may KNOW that it's no
longer required with the FastFileSystem in ROM but it wasn't worth getting
back the space from one cylinder to do the required reformatting etc.  Good
luck!


 -- AEd V1.36/Eval

-- Via DLG Pro v0.995

Rick Lang - please respond publically as I do not have netmail.

A M I G A   U S E R   G R O U P ,   V I C T O R I A ,   B C   C A N A D A
From: kevinm@ocf.berkeley.edu (Kevin Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Memory Priority
Date: 13 Nov 1992 23:45:11 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: tornado.berkeley.edu

I was running the latest version of SysInfo today, and I noticed that the
1.8 megs of slow RAM that I have installed in the A501 slot is the same
priority as the fast RAM I have installed with my hard drive controller.

Are there any ways to change the priority of the slow RAM so that the true
fast ram is used up first?  It seems like this would give me improved 
system performance.


Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga.hardware:19339 comp.sys.amiga.advocacy:28736
From: ggg@kepler.unh.edu (Gregory G Greene)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: PC, Redneck President, and other bad news. (was Re: Amiga 1200)
Date: 10 Nov 1992 10:41:57 GMT
Organization: University of New Hampshire  -  Durham, NH
NNTP-Posting-Host: kepler.unh.edu

'>>    they can get there hands on or create.  Look for national gun control 
'>>    also, one more freedom down the drain.
'>
'>Do you really think that  being able to buy any kind of gun is a freedom ?

	Yes, I do.  But its not possible in the US anymore.  The democratic
   congress has seen to that.  They put a ban on all imported semi-automatic
   assault rifles, but domestic semi-automatic assualt rifles are fine.  I'm
   sure this made the domestic assault rifle manufacturers very happy but it
   doesn't make much sense to me.  I don't understand all the fear about
   semi-automatic assault rifles to begin with.  Congress now wants to ban
   rifles by how they look.  

							Greg Greene
                                                        ggg@kepler.unh.edu


'>PS : forgive my bad English, I'm still trying to learn it
'>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
'>Jean-Marc "JUMP" Porchet                             Phone : (41) 22-754-1733
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
Subject: Re: Networking? WHY?!?
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut f"ur Radioastronomie
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:46:34 GMT

In <jbono.07v8@tension.UUCP> jbono@tension.UUCP (John Bono) writes:
>gazillions of dollars trying to get 500s, 600s, and 1200s networking is a waste
>of money, as noone I know would want a low end machine like that as a
>workstation or server.  HOWEVER, an A2000/3000/4000 based network is a
>different story, because those machines are far more likely to be used in a
>productivity environment.

Don't ever underestimate the power of an 68000 :) Networking isn't limited
to a setup where you have "workstations" with little resources and "servers"
providing the resources. Networking also means communication over long haul
networks or just remote control of some machinery. Having a "standard" way
to do this is worth the effort.

Of course such a feature isn't needed as a standard part of the OS,
an add-on would do the same. But then C= announced networking support
for AmigaOS 3.1 ;-)

Regards,
-- 
Michael van Elst
UUCP:     universe!local-cluster!milky-way!sol!earth!uunet!unido!mpirbn!p554mve
Internet: p554mve@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de
                                "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."
From: ad2@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ahmad Durrani)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Floppy size in 1200?
Date: 6 Nov 1992 14:46:48 -0000
Organization: Department of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: oak49.doc.ic.ac.uk


In article <36692@cbmvax.commodore.com>, grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
|> In article <1992Nov3.185053.44366@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> 2ftqkiln@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
|> > In article <36617@cbmvax.commodore.com>, grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
|> > > In article <1992Nov2.090012.44313@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> 2ftqkiln@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:

|> [...]

|> Arghh, I post a simple answer and get a petite diatribe in return.  I'll admit
|> that a HD floppy would be nice, perhaps very nice, but I'm not sure whether
|> it is really essential on a machine with a built-in hard drive capability.
|> 
|> Is this really a buy/no-buy point for you?

In just a couple of posts earlier, Mr Robbins stated that the plain A600's have 
a good chance of not including IDE support in ROM, but that an upgrade kit can be
bought from Commodore which includes such support.

What I want to know is if this is also the case with the A1200 ??
I expect there to be a simple plug-in-and-go system, where a hard drive can 
be fitted and without having to buy extra upgrades to allow HD compatibility.

Ahmad.

|> 
|> -- 
|> George Robbins - now working for,     work:   to be avoided at all costs...
|> but no way officially representing:   uucp:   {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
|> Commodore, Engineering Department     domain: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com
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