HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: cmv@looney.att.com (Craig M. Votava)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 38,400 Telebit Qblazer Modem ($299.00)
Keywords: where did u buy it?
Date: 27 Aug 92 22:07:33 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories

In article <78459@ut-emx.uucp>, violator@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Violator) writes:
|> Where did u find this modem for 300 dollars? I was told it was selling for
|> about 600 dollars.  Where did u buy it?

Call 1-800-TELEBIT

|> Is it a 14.4 modem which suports
|> .32 bis .32 .42bis etc....

This modem supports V.32 V.42 and V.42bis ONLY!

It has been brought to my attention that THIS MODEM DOES NOT TALK 19,200
OVER THE LINK (that is it does not do V.32bis) it can talk at EFFECTIVE speeds
up to 38,400 by doing compression (V.42, V.42bis) but the highest speed it
talks over the phone line at is 9600.

I'm told that it uses the AT&T chip set. The new Rockwell chip set can talk
at 19,200 over the link. Add compression on top of that, and you've got real
speeds there.

The advantage here is the price...

Thanks to all who pointed this out.

-Craig

	()_()	Craig Votava
	 (_)	AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville IL
		cmv@looney.att.com
From: al158305@academ01.mty.itesm.mx (Gustavo Cordova Avila)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Crazy Multiprocessing Idea
Date: 2 Sep 92 17:54:50 GMT


   Hmmm... sounds quite nice if I may say so. Build the board with it's
own CPU and some private + some shared memory (shared with the host system),
and write a teeny little OS for the board, which would be mainly RPC calls,
and also a 'MULTIPROCESSOR.library' for the host :)
   I don't know if said library would be too far fetched, but it could
include for example, a 'select_card' call, 'loaddata', 'savedata',
'sendrpc', etc etc. That way, each specific application that used said
cards could adapt to new ones without much effort. What do you think?

-Gus
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From: accs1@bagheera.mumath
Subject: CAPS_LOCK stays on problem
Reply-To: accs1@bagheera.mumath
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 12:20:04 GMT

Turning my A2000 A rev 4.x on the CAPS_LOCK lamp stays on and no keyboard
input is possible. Only a new power-on solves this problem.

What is the problem ?

Thanks, Frank.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: craigs@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Stace)
Subject: Re: My AMIGA is now CYAN ONLY!!!
Organization: CS Dept., Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 05:32:00 GMT

jyork@iastate.edu (Justin York) writes:


>Can anyone out there tell me what has happened to my Amiga? I moved it up
>to college (no more bumps than normal...) and when I  hooked it up, the 
>monitor displays only shades of cyan! I have tried re-setting the monitor
>controls, and have tried different cables, so my conclusion is that it it

Well, a friend of mine had a monitor that would not display any black.  The
solution that worked was to run a head demagnatizer wand (or a bulk tape eraser)
over the screen a few times.  It worked for him.  Couldn't hurt - maybe the
monitor was near a strong magnetic field.
 
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From: al705@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Edith D Goldstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Whether to buy a Canon BubbleJet or a HP DeskJet500
Date: 3 Sep 1992 06:07:43 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: al705@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Edith D Goldstein)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, s1180252@giaeb.cc.monash.edu.au (N Ashford CHUGGLES)) says:

>Hi,
>    I am currently undecided as to whether I should buy a Canon series Bubble
>Jet printer or a HP DeskJet 500 printer.  I would like to know about the
>following items:
>               1) How satisfied you are with your bubblejet/deskjet
>                  printer?

I have a BubbleJet 130 it has a wide carriage and 136x136 dpi.  Wolf
Faust's drivers let me take advantage of these features which the C
recommended driver (CBM_MPS 1000) did not.  (I think the Deskjet is only
130 dpi.)

>               2) What aspects of you bubblejet/deskjet you are
>                  dissatified about?

Starting a new cartridge can be a real pain, you seem to have to shake them
a lot and after getting it to work fine for a while, all of the sudden the
ink doesn't come out properly again.  After this second session of cleaning
and shaking, it goes along pretty well until it is REALLY empty.


>               3) The speed (graphics and text) of each of the Canons
>                  (BJ10ex, BJ300/330).

I cannot answer about these, but if I had the money I would buy the 800
instead of a color deskjet, because I am that pleased with the results of
the 130.

>               4) The speed (graphics and text) of the HP DeskJet 500
>                  (not colour).
>               5) The quality of output from each of these printers.
>               6) Any comparisons you have seen or done between each of
>                  these printers.
>
>Well that just about sums up my needs, could you please EMail your replies.
>
>Noel Ashford
>s1180252@giaeb.cc.monash.edu.au
>s1180252@giaec.cc.monash.edu.au
>"Amiga born a champion" Quote from KS1.2
>"Now slowly dying" Popular opinion.
>
>
>
From: pfeiffer@nmsu.edu (Joe Pfeiffer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Help understanding Fatter Agnus hack
Date: 27 Aug 92 16:09:17 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: NMSU Computer Science

I tried to e-mail this to the Provider Of The Hack, but my mailer
didn't recognize his site:

To: safc@cs.UAlberta.CA
Subject: rev 5 1meg Agnus hack explained

Hi, I just got my Fatter Agnus and my 2.04 upgrade, so I've been going
over your instructions and my A500 schematics.  I'm a little puzzled...

I assume the schematics are wrong about JP2 -- it shows a single
jumper, optionally connecting U32 and U13 to U5 (Gary).  There's also
an annotation saying that U32 and JP2 are mutually exclusive.  I would
guess that when I open the case, I'll find that JP2 actually selects
whether U32 or U5 drives the U13 pin?  Will I be changing from U32
driving to U5 driving, or vice versa?

Also, looking at pin 32 of the connector, it is grounded on the A501
card.  It appears to be telling Gary that the card is in fact present
(_EXRAM input to U5) -- with it cut, how will the system determine the
presence of the A501?  Does it query a memory location?

I haven't found anything on the schematic to say which rev level I have.

Thanks for your help, I'm just finding out what I'm doing before I do it...

Since this is going out to the net, let me add:

By the way, my Fatter Agnus came without installation instructions;
also, for what it's worth, my ``2.04'' upgrade turned out to be a
2.05!  Contrary to my dealer's expectations, it only took a couple of
weeks to come in.  My Quantum 240 MB disk drive is taking just this
side of forever, with dark hints that the price may have gone up $200
in the interim...

-Joe.
From: George_Seremetidis@guru.pub.uu.oz.au (George Seremetidis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: high density floppy drives
Date: 30 Aug 92 09:52:15 GMT
Organization: Guru Meditation BBS

Would anyone be able to give me info on the high density floppy drives that
are coming onto the market. Things like compatibility, where to get it
from, etc.

 Thanks in advance


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From: ins141f@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Adam Bradley)
Subject: Re: TECH: "Virtuality" --- Amiga 3000... Some observations and Questions.
Organization: Monash University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 02:44:07 GMT

Jon P Baker (jpbaker@silver.ucs.indiana.edu) wrote:
: There is a traveling set in the "midwest" U.S. that goes around and
: spends 10days or so at arcades that can't afford to buy one. It was
: ~US$4.00 to play when it was here in Bloomington, for something like
: 2-3minutes.
: 
: The people I know that played it thought it was great, but with only
: polygon graphics I'm not impressed.
: 
: Jon

I spotted a couple of the above mentioned machines at a local shopping center
about 2 weeks ago.  Quite impressive.  Nice graphics and sound.  $5 a go for
(once again) about 3 minutes.

Many interested customers but not the queues that I expected....


Just my 5c worth !



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From: yurick@vaxr.llnl.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Questions about A2090 HD controller...
Date: 30 Aug 92 22:55:24 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Distribution: usa
Organization: LLNL_LIS

In article <1992Aug24.163923.13683@lonex.rl.af.mil>, Michael A. Kopack writes:
> Hi All!!!!
> 
> I got a couple of questions for all you netters out there.
> 
> I recently purchased a used A2090 SCSI controller for an old A2000.
> Can a 3.5" Hd be mounted onto the card to act as a hard card?
 
No, this board won't support that.

> Also, how would one Low-Level format this drive? Is there a special software
> package involved? 

I received a disk with my controller that had prep and some other programs on 
it.
 
> Does this interface support the FFS? I'd think not, but I'm not sure.

I don't think the controller decides whether FFS is SUPPORTED, but it does
accept FFS.  Some specifications for your HD will be listed in a mountlist,
located in your DEVS directory.  You'll have to supply info like low/high
cylinders for your partitions, file system, etc.  The manual that came with my
2090 had this info explained in it.

> If the drive can't be mounted on the card, are there any other good places
> inside the A2000 to put the drive? The A2000 already has an A2088 and a Supra
> Ram expander. I was thinking that I could just mount all the cards as far
> to the left of the case as possible, and lay the drive down on top of the
> remaining expansion slots. Would this be OK? How many drive power cables
> are there inside of an A2000  (the machine is not mine) ???

Make sure your drive doesn't slide around and short something out.  If it does,
then you'll have bigger problems to worry about.  It's probably NOT the best
idea to simply lie the HD on top of the expansion slots.  It should be secured
in-place somewhere.  I saw a post, a short time ago, that explained how to 
mount hard drives in various locations inside of an A2000.
 
> Thanks for the help. Please reply via E-Mail to kopack@lonex.rl.af.mil
                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I tried, but it bounced!
 
> Mike Kopack                  

Later,
Joe
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From: Boinger@myamy.hacktic.nl (Paul Kolenbrander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Size of a Zorro II card
Date: 2 Sep 92 18:25:28 MET
Reply-To: boinger@myamy.hacktic.nl (Paul Kolenbrander)
Distribution: world
Organization: System Information 2.0 Development
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <phil.715308233@adam.adelaide.edu.au> phil@adam.adelaide.edu.au (Phil Kernick) writes:
> Could someone please tell me the maximum physical size of a Zorro II card.
> That is, from the bottom of the edge connector to the top of the card.

Well, here are the specs in mm.

Heigth of card 124.5mm  (To be on the safe side [non-standard
                         cards] add another 10mm)
Length of card 337.19mm (add 16.25MM for mounting bracket)

You can find most of the info you need in the A500/A2000
Technical Reference Manual. Contact CATS for pricing and
availability...
    
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From: spice@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: RAM chips and the A3000
Date: 2 Sep 92 04:52:35 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon Computer Club

I need to add more memory to my A3000 and I'm having trouble finding
1meg x 4 Static column ZIP ram chips at a reasonable price. I have been
able to find nybble and page mode ZIP ram chips easily. I understand
that the static column chips support burst mode and thus are 10% faster
than the nybble & page mode chips. But I believe I've seen a post here
on the Net which stated that due to a bug in the RAMSEY chips of early
A3000s (like mine) that causes the burst mode not to be used. Can anyone
especially from Commodore confirm this? Also could you give me the name
and phone number of a company selling static column chips?

                                  Thanks

                               Scott Corley

spice@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
From: ferg@cup.portal.com (John P Ferguson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Where are the 2.04 ROMs? NOT!
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 11:15:04 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

My dealer (my dad :) has several in stock.  E-mail me if you want the
phone number.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: keith@actrix.gen.nz (Keith Stewart)
Subject: Reboot with 1.3 using SetCpu under 2.04
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 09:01:30 GMT
Keywords: SetCpu ROM 

I am trying to reboot using SetCpu KICKROM DF1: . I have a 1.3 Kickstart
disk in df1:

I have 2.04 in ROM and A 2630 board w/4meg of RAM and GVP Series II with 4 meg

After executing setcpu I get the kickstart hand on the screen and kickstart
is loaded from df1:
The computer resets and I get a green screen and then thats it.

Any ideas. I have tried SetCpu FASTROM dh0:rom with a 1.3 ROM image but
the screen only goes wavey after rebooting 

Any help please reply

Keith
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: mmoore@cs.ulowell.edu (Michael P. Moore)
Subject: Monitor Problems and Questions  PLEASE HELP!
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Lowell Computer Science
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 20:30:38 GMT

I have a 1084D monitor, and lately it has been acting strangely.  After a
short time running, the picture starts to wiggle.  If you're looking at
some text, there are lots of ripples in the sides of the characters.  Also
the picture form tim to time will shrink or expand in size (veritcally or
horizontally or both) and it has once started to scrunch the last 5 or 6
columns of text on the right side of the screen.  Has anybody had this problem
with their monitor and if so, what was the problem?  I have no qualms about
trying to repair it if the problem is something simple.

I also wanted to know if there are any multisync monitors that will sync to
the standard Amiga's frequency and has a NTSC video input.  Please include
any specs like price, max. resolution etc.

Thanks a lot
Mike Moore

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Crazy Multiprocessing Idea
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Monitor Problems and Questions  PLEASE HELP!
Summary: 
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Keywords: 

I have a 1084D monitor, and lately it has been acting strangely.  After a
short time running, the picture starts to wiggle.  If you're looking at
some text, there are lots of ripples in the sides of the characters.  Also
the picture form tim to time will shrink or expand in size (veritcally or
horizontally or both) and it has once started to scrunch the last 5 or 6
columns of text on the right side of the screen.  Has anybody had this problem
with their monitor and if so, what was the problem?  I have no qualms about
trying to repair it if the problem is something simple.

I also wanted to know if there are any multisync monitors that will sync to
the standard Amiga's frequency and has a NTSC video input.  Please include
any specs like price, max. resolution etc.

Thanks a lot
Mike Moore

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From: Bill.Hirt@mtask.omahug.org (Bill Hirt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Duplicate messages
Date: 03 Sep 92 19:35:36 CST
Reply-To: bill.hirt@mtask.omahug.org
Organization: Multitasking Systems, Kansas City
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.hardware

My apologies to readers of this newsgroup for an automated posting program on
this system which generated several duplicate messages in this newsgroup. The
program has been disabled until this problem is cleared up.
From: ghazi@wizofhoz.uucp (Ozzie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 1 Meg Agnus Hack Help Part 2
Date: 25 Aug 1992 02:20:11 GMT
Organization: Not an Organization

In article <faith.066k@amiganet.chi.il.us> faith@amiganet.chi.il.us (Fred Drummand) writes:
>I Have a problem.  I Just added an esc 1 meg agnus to my  system, but i hav
>not yet performed the hack to receive 1 meg of chip ram.  SHould i be able
>to access pal screens now?
>
>And Now the real question, Do i Follow the instrucxtons toinstall a 1 meg
>agnus or or do i follow the directions in my adram book? They are different

	If your trapdoor unit is the Adram then you have to follow those
instructions to get the one meg chip. I'm not to sure if there is away
around that. You can still do the Pal screens but I forget which pins on
the Agnus have to be worked with, as the setup is different for the Adram
as opposited to a normal 501 or clone.

>My Adram says to cut the jp2 trace, and then solder a wire from the middle
>pad to a pad on the daughter board for the adram over the gary chip?

	That's all you have to do, is cut that one trace, soldier the wire
they supply to the centre pad and then to the Adram, don't forget to set
the jumper for 1 meg Agnus on the secondary board or the ram jumpers.
	Don't worry about any other hack instructions, the instructions you
get with the Adram are all you need, just follow them as written. Some of
the instructions are spread over to other pages so read the whole manuel
and it should work fine.

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From: copes@pride.cs.curtin.edu.au (Simon Cope)
Subject: Re: bizarre virtual memory idea...
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 09:08:45 GMT

engb@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Ben Eng) writes:

>I just had the most bizarre idea for implementing a virtual
>memory scheme on the Amiga.  It's so off the wall, I haven't

>Imagine a Zorro II or Zorro III expansion card with about
>4 or 8 or 16 MB of fast RAM, as well as an onboard SCSI
>controller.  Add in some smarts that acts like a MMU and
>probably a load of logic to glue everything together.
>There you have a RAM card that "looks" to the system like
>a RAM card, but "acts" like a RAM card as large as the
>amount of mass storage you stick onto the SCSI bus.

>I haven't researched how Zorro reacts, but I would imagine
>that this thing would be incurring some really nasty
>"wait states" during page faults.  :-)

The ZorroIII bus has a default timeout of 250ms.  If your card didn't respond
in that time, FatBuster forces a Bus Error to the cpu.  This could be REAL
nasty.  A 'real' Virtual Memory system would suspend the task while the page
is being read in from storage, and continue with another.  When it gets the
signal that the read is complete, it could return the suspended task to waiting
status.  You might be able to replicate this by having your card force an
interrupt on a page fault, and having your driver code suspend the task (using
the info on the exception frame) till the read is complete, then return it to
waiting.  I have seen a program called VRam by IVS for doing vram using the
an 030 with mmu, and apparently there is another one called GiGaMem floating 
around.  The main problem is using your device driver from within an exception,
but if your writing your own, there is no real problem.

With a bit of thought, it should be possible to do one on a card.  However,
by the time you add up the cost of making your own fast dma controller, plus
an equally fast ram card, it would probably be easier to buy more ram.  VRam
can have some real BIG performance hits if its not done properly.

 
>Ben
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From: huebner@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Robert Huebner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: WHATS WRONG WITH THE SUPRA14.4?????
Date: 29 Aug 92 03:54:16 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center

In article <1992Aug28.140541.3795@desire.wright.edu> cshamis@desire.wright.edu writes:
>WHats this stuff about old/new ROMS?   Whats the chances of my getting the old
>roms, whats the difference between the new ones and the old ones?  

The old ROMs were used when there was a large backlog of Supra orders so
I'm almost certain most of that stock was depleated since the update.
Unless of course you have one from an out-of-the-way dealer where it
was collecting dust.
>If I get the old ones, does supra pay for the upgrade?  

I'm pretty sure they would.  I had the old ROMS and they sent me an upgrade
in the mail without me even asking for it.

>My mouth has been watering for this modem for almost three weeks --i make very
>little money ;( --  And now when im ONE DAY away from getting it I hear this!
>Oh.,..the pain... the pain...  

I hardly think the 1.2 are the panacea for problems some have with the 
Supras but I didn't really have any problems with it under the 1.0 ROMS
except when calling on noisy lines (and under either ROM you could
manual-fallback to v.32 by typing ATNS37=9).  1.2 just automates this.
They're still flakier than the USRs but quite serviceable.  Go for it.
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