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From: Roger_Nordin@atb.bbs.bad.se (Roger Nordin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Moving 500 to 1200, BAD NEWS
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 19:27:00 +0000
Reply-To: Roger_Nordin@atb.bbs.bad.se (Roger Nordin)
Distribution: world
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> >Yes, isn't it? My A3000 has 83886080 bits of memory, and so far, not a 
single
> >one of them has ever failed. Not ever.

> mind you my sun has 16mb ram (4x4mbyte simms) and the SGI has 32mb ram
> and both are active 24 hrs/day 7 days a week means the MTBF is very

Yes, I now about the MTBF. Compared to harddisks, its really wonderful, isn't 
it? One of my Quantums have already been replaced here, it didn't last for 
more than eight months of continous operation (one of the older 210S models). 
My A3000 happens to be running 24h/day 7days/week here too as a rather busy 
mail server, which means quite intense disk operations. I guess I should get 
some more RAM (would mean the full motherboard of my A3000 filled to the limit.
..) so I can afford to have a larger disk cache -- that would probably be 
quite a cheap life insurance for my harddisks, not mentioning the speed up 
bonus.

I'm not saying that parity checking is bad -- I am however saying that there 
are much more important isses when discussing RAM saftey on the Amiga, that 
should be taken care of first in order to make a significant improvement.

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From: kevinm@ocf.berkeley.edu (Kevin Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: A1200 Add-Ons
Date: 11 Nov 1992 17:55:07 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
Distribution: world
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I am very interested in the A1200, and look forward to it arriving here in the
states, but I have two concerns about adding hardware.

From what I understand, the A1200 comes with only 2 meg chip RAM.  How would
I go about adding 32-bit fast RAM?  What cost is involved?

From what I understand, the A1200 has no hard drive either.  Will I be able
to EASILY add a hard drive (IDE or whatever)?  I don't want to buy the 
machine and then find out that I'm stuck with a floppy-based system. NEVER
again!

Thanks!

Kevin
kevinm@ocf.berkeley.edu
From: Dan_E_Babcock@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Floppy size in 1200?
Date: Thu,  5 Nov 92 16:34:34 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <36617@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1992Nov3.142024.17682@hubcap.clemson.edu>
  <Bx5ysJ.DtE@news.iastate.edu>

>I think I remember something about the C- HD floppy drives not working as
>external drives, so Commodore will not be able to bring out external HD

Actually making an external version of the HD floppy would be easier
than a normal floppy, because the Amiga drive ID circuitry is
integrated with the drive.

Marc, your accuracy concerning technical matters is I believe at an all-time
low. I don't recall you saying anything correct in the last month or so.
You don't even post interesting info about C='s sales/financial status.
You're completely USELESS !!! ;-)

Dan
From: cb599@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Taxan multivision 770 plus monitor
Date: 9 Nov 1992 04:10:13 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


Does anyone out there have documentation for a TAXAN  MutiVision 770 Plus
monitor?   I have the pinouts but have no idea what the five rows of 
adjustment pots on the back do or what all freequencies it will sync to.
If anyone has the original documentation, I would gladly pay mailing and
pfotocopy fees to get a copy of it. Looks like a nice monitor but I'd like
to use it to its fullest potential.  Thanks.......
 
 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: terjem@stud.cs.uit.no (Terje Normann Marthinussen)
Subject: Re: 50MHz 68040 BSC Accelerator system
Organization: University of Tromsoe
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 13:48:58 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.112422.17624@arbi.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>, Winfried.Krueger@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Winfried Krueger) writes:
>Roger_Nordin@atb.bbs.bad.se (Roger Nordin) writes:
>
>>I a curious if anyone here has any experiences with the TurboMaster 4050/4050S/
>>4053 systems. Could you please post some AIBB tests etc?
>
>[...]
>
>>Since BSC usually produces good quality products (personal experience), these 
>>boards looks very interesting. I thought there was no 50Mhz 68040 avialable 
>>even, and this product catalog is dated Nov-91. Are they using some liquid 
>>helium cooling, or what? :)
>
>Since there is still no 68040-50 shipping I guess they are using two
>68040-25 CPUs: one for the first 25Mhz and the other for the rest... =8-)
>

From what I've read there will not be one either.
The max speed of version of the 68040 is supposed to be at 40MHz

Terje Marthinussen
terjem@stud.cs.uit.no
From: jcross@ec.uwa.oz.au (Jennifer Cross)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Moving 500 to 1200, BAD NEWS
Date: 9 Nov 1992 08:48:36 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Australia
Distribution: world
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Roger_Nordin@atb.bbs.bad.se (Roger Nordin) writes:

>> > and Amiga use 1 Meg x 8.  Have a little patience with a new product and
>> 
>> Thats because C= assume all memory is infallible :-(

>Yes, isn't it? My A3000 has 83886080 bits of memory, and so far, not a single 
>one of them has ever failed. Not ever.

  HAH!  having just replaced 4mb in my Sun ELC (it died and was replaced
  under warrenty) and some others that failed in the SGI where I was
  working (and still consult)  I think parity checking is a good thing (tm)
  (my amiga ram expansion include parity but uses dip (256kx4) chips)

  mind you my sun has 16mb ram (4x4mbyte simms) and the SGI has 32mb ram
  and both are active 24 hrs/day 7 days a week means the MTBF is very
  high on the simms... just I'd much prefer to know when a module dies rather
  than just have the system doing "funny" things from time to time :-)

 me? paranoid? what make you ask?  :-)
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From: dduff@infopls.chi.il.us (Dennis Duffner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Picking up HAM radio transmissions on A3000
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 92 09:23:07 CST
Organization: INFOPLUS support, Wheeling, IL

thieleke@icaen.uiowa.edu (Jeffrey Ray Thieleke) writes:

> rsc@hao.ucar.edu (Bob Campbell) writes:
> 
> >My father has a HAM radio with a serial port.  He bought it under the presum
> >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 seei
> >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?
 
Jeff, that's for RTTY or an electronic keyboard for automatic CW
transmissions.
 
Check out rec.radio.amateur.* for details on how to use it.

Dennis Duffner                           dduff@infopls.chi.il.us
 
Member, AAAF-American Association of Amiga Fanatics
From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Portable A600?
Date: Sun,  8 Nov 92 18:26:40 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <9986@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com> <68981@cup.portal.com>
  <1dfgnnINNrl8@uwm.edu>

>BTW, Kennedy *withheld* air support, he didn't withdraw it as you state.
>That's a *big* difference.

"Withdrew" from original plans.  They were not withheld - they were in the
plans from the start.

>
>Isn't this comp.sys.amiga.hardware? Oops!
>Replies to nil:

Hey, good idea - discussing hardware (non-military :-).

-Joel
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From: johnv@acix.DIALix.oz.au (John Verhoeven)
Subject: Chip names (was Re: Amiga 1200)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: 7 Nov 92 20:16:09 WST
Organization: ACix - Private UUCP Node, Cloverdale, Western Australia.

Peter /\/\odin (e91petmo@odalix.ida.liu.se) wrote:
> Paula_Lieberman@amicol.UUCP (Paula Lieberman) writes:
> >How about Commodore calling some more chips by -male- or sex-neutral names,
> >or better still, leave out the anthropomorphisms........
>
> Naah, gives the whole thing personality! Anyway, why don't you
> like it, PAULA? SOUNDS good to me! :->

Yep, Denise sounds so much *nicer* than 8373.

Besides which by now more people know what you are talking about if you
say Denise or Agnus or Paula that their part numbers.

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From: jeremym@ravel.udel.edu (Jeremy A Moskowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: does this device exist?
Date: 6 Nov 92 17:05:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.BxB0sq.9I3
Organization: University of Delaware

Well.. I don't know if it exists or not, but Redmond Cable
will know. They are the "cable" people. Also, Cables & Chips
in NYC. I have neither of its numbers. The first can be found
in many many amiga-worlds, and the latter by maybe 212-555-1212?

Anyway.. good luck.


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From: cikp14@vaxa.strath.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: 1280x512, 30khz on A4000 with A2320
Date: 10 Nov 92 12:13:47 GMT
Organization: Strathclyde University VAX Cluster

Has anyone noticed that with a A2320 flicker fixer plugged into the A4000
that you can now see super hires (for me that means 1420x580 approx) in
it's full glory at 30khz. It flickers quite a bit but at least the sample
every other pixel is not there anymore :-). 

I thought this was impossible ?

Si.
From: tsuikki@lut.fi (Teemu Suikki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A4000 video slot specifications needed!
Date: 5 Nov 92 10:44:34 GMT
Organization: Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland

In article <c6d.ANN@halmuc.muc.sub.org> dolittle@halmuc.muc.sub.org (Ludwig Hurt) writes:
>Ok, let's go. First, the standard video slot (small slot)

Thank you! I'm going to build a hardware scandoubler for A4000.. So I can use
some cheap SVGA monitor with it.
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From: saj31052@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Scotty A Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Floppy troubles.....
Date: 13 Nov 92 22:13:07 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana


I don't know if I have already asked this here, but
I am doing it now:

I have an internal floppy on an older A500 which I purchased
used two months ago.  The drive was fine (as far as I could
tell), until about one month after I got it.  I do not usually
use it for AmigaDOS disks, since I have most everything on my
harddrive.  I generally d/l software on a PC, and mount the
PC disk on workbench using one of three products:

Messy-DOS, Multi-DOS, or Cross-DOS.

I have 2.0 ROMS, and I run 2.04, and 2.1.

The errors were rare at first, but now plentiful.  I get an error
#25, which seems to be a CRC checksum error, from all of these
utilities (though Messy-DOS doesn't recognize the IBM DOS disk
very often).  I get this error only when trying to copy, view,
exectute, or access the FIRST file on the disk.  It accesses about
the first 20k of the file before giving me the error message.

I figured at first that it was time to replace the drive, so
I took the machine into my favorite Amiga dealer.  They tested
the drive as completely as they could under AmigaDOS, and told
me there was nothing wrong with it.  It produced the error
under Cross-DOS, etc, and the techician does not know what the
error means.  I decided to save myself some money and take my
machine back.

Also, I have had a couple of games that have become screwed
lately, but for some reason I feel this is more a coincidence,
since in my 6 years of owning an Amiga, I have gotten MANY
"screwed" disk erros..  I usually just toss them out.  In 
particular JR-Comm used to get screwed a lot, right at track
40, but that's another story...


If anyone out there knows anything about floppys and can help,
please let me know.

Thanks,

  Scotty AJ

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: nv89-pla@hemul.nada.kth.se (Peter Laan)
Subject: Re: Three AGA questions.
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 21:44:06 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.093926.5786@tdb.uu.se> t92etr@tdb.uu.se (Erik Trulsson) writes:
>Steve Koren (koren@fc.hp.com) wrote:
>: Mattias Dahlberg (matt-dah@dsv.su.se) wrote:
>: 
>: >    since then 256000 will be the number of pixels. But shouldn't it
>: >    be 262144 on all higher resolutions...?
>: 
>: What's a couple of thousand colors here or there? :-) But seriously, I
>: think the correct value is 2^18+64.  (Ie, there are 64 base registers
>: you can set to whatever you want, and you can HAM your way to 2^18 more
>: colors beyond those).
>
>Well,those 64 base registers are probably part of the 2^18 colors.
>I think that the number 256000 comes from confusion with 256k (256*1024=262144).
>

With HAM8 you could get 16M colors if you had enough pixels. Just choose
the correct 64 base colors.


-Peter





Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: hanscs@dhhalden.no (HANS CHRISTIAN SANDER)
Subject: Re: Flicker fixer for A4000
Organization: Ostfold College
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 14:09:14 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.120850.1@vaxa.strath.ac.uk> cikp14@vaxa.strath.ac.uk writes:
>From: cikp14@vaxa.strath.ac.uk
>Subject: Flicker fixer for A4000
>Date: 10 Nov 92 12:08:50 GMT
>Is there a flicker fixer coming out for the new A4000 that will flicker fix
>all resoultions in 24bit or at least 640x400 (640x5120). I hear that there
>might be a flicker fixer coming out that fixes 1280x400 but is there one
>coming out for the A4000.
>
>Si.
You do not need a flicker fixer in 640x512 on an A4000, ever heard of DblPAL 
640x512. Even the Super 72 800x600 is pretty much flicker free(NOT! well 
almost then). You'll need a fixer for the 1280x400 mode though. If you don't 
have it, get it.
From: Aric.Caley@ofa123.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A570 CD ROM, A500 an
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov  5 1992
Date: 11 Nov 92  11:11:04

> Organization: Acadia University
> From: 890530m@dragon.acadiau.ca (Darren MacKenzie)
> Message-ID: 1992Nov10.154141.9294@dragon.acadiau.ca
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
>
> Here's another question...
> What does anyone think the odds are of C= coming out with a CDTV drive
> for the A2000 series?

Well, it would be very easy to do.  That probably means they wont do it.

> -Doc
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From: ross@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ross Hippely - Manuals)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A4000 video slot specifications needed!
Date: 5 Nov 92 18:04:19 GMT
Reply-To: ross@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ross Hippely - Manuals)
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Distribution: world
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
Keywords: video slot pinout
Summary: video slot pinout touchup

In article <c6d.ANN@halmuc.muc.sub.org> dolittle@halmuc.muc.sub.org (Ludwig Hurt) writes:
>Please forgive me, if I don't translate the technical terms right,
>because I only have the German expressions.
>
>Ok, let's go. First, the standard video slot (small slot)

[pinout deleted]

Pretty good, up to here, where of course there are green and blue bits
instead of redundant red bits:

>45  RGB18       O  red Bit 2
>46  RGB19       O  red Bit 3
>47  RGB8        O  red Bit 0
>48  RGB9        O  red Bit 1
>49  RGB10       O  red Bit 2
>50  RGB11       O  red Bit 3
>51  RGB0        O  red Bit 0
>52  RGB1        O  red Bit 1
>53  RGB2        O  red Bit 2
>54  RGB3        O  red Bit 3

RGB8 through 11 are Green bits 0 - 3; RGB0 through 3 are Blue bits 0 - 3.

[...]

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: easton@zds-oem.zds.com (Jeff Easton)
Subject: Re: Large IDE HD in A1200
Organization: Zenith Data Systems, OEM Systems Engineering
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1992 21:45:41 GMT

In article <bobl.9646@bobsbox.rent.com> bobl@bobsbox.rent.com (Bob Lindabury - SysAdmin) writes:
>In article <36793@cbmvax.commodore.com> grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
>> In article <1992Nov2.121045.26993@ulrik.uio.no> jawil@hpx12.aid.no (Jan Roger Wilkens) writes:
>> >
>> > I have an 130MB Segate half-height 3.5" HD for my A500.
>> > I'm going to sell this machine soon to upgrade into an A1200. Now I'm
>> > wondering if I can keep the HD to use it with the 1200.
>> >
>> > Since my HD is 3.5" is it to big to fit inside the machine?
>>
>> Yep, too big.
>
>Again, isn't there a 3.5" floppy in there?  Can't it be removed and a
>hard drive put in its place and the floppy moved to external?

  Sure, anything is possible with a little hacking.  The question is,
are you up to it?

  Here are some things to consider if you want to do this:

1>  IDE ribbon cable

  As has been discussed here already, the 2.5" drive has a different
cable than a 3.5" drive.  If your adventurous, you can make a cable
to convert to the 3.5" pinout and connector.

2>  Mounting

  The hard disk may require new holes drilled into the case for attaching
the mounting screws.  There seems to be about six different "standards"
used so far.  Also, make sure your spiffy new IDE drive is the correct 
height to fit in the drive bay.  Rumor has it the floppy is only 1"
tall.

3>  Power

  Figure out where to get +12 volts from, in sufficent quantity to
be able to spin up your 3.5" drive.  It may require 1 Amp or more.
The 2.5" drives only use +5v.
Hook up this +12V and the System +5V to a power connector (user
supplied) that will fit the 3.5" hard disk.

4>  Floppy drive select 0

  Find the drive select 0 trace running to the internal floppy port,
cut it.  Find the drive select 1,2 and 3 running to the external floppy
port, cut them all.  Now, wire 0 to external 1, 1 to external 2, 2 to
external 3.  Now at least you can have external DF0: DF1: and DF2
instead of external DF1: DF2: and DF3:.

5>  External floppy enclosure and cable.

  Find a suitable enclosure for your floppy.  Dont forget the external
flip flop and NAND gate required for external drives.

  There, that should about cover it.

  Simple, no?

>> George Robbins - now working for,     work:   to be avoided at all costs...
> Bob Lindabury

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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 14.xx & 7.xx Mhz, why?
Keywords: 68000
Date: 6 Nov 92 05:08:30 GMT
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <1992Nov5.224246.25432@ifi.uio.no> stigo@ifi.uio.no (Stig Arne Olsen) writes:
> 
> 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?

In the A500/A2000/etc, the processor runs off a clock that is synchronous
with the Amiga chipset clocking.  In NTSC units, this clock is some multiple
of the 3.58 MHz NTSC color burst frequency, which makes for stable composite
video output.  In PAL systems the clock is some multiple of 4/5's of the PAL
4.43 MHz color burst frequency, these two numbers being less than 1% different.

In the A3000/A4000 systems, the processor runs on an asynchronous clock and
additional logic and address/data latching is needed to interface to the
chip bus and expansion bus.

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