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From: morgan@dl5000.bc.edu (Morgan Stair)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Choosing a tape backup.
Date: 19 Dec 92 19:59:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: dl5000.MORGAN.92Dec19145940
Distribution: usa
Organization: Institute for Space Research, Boston College


  I'm looking for the best tape backup I can get for under $500.  I've
seen adds for a $250-ish 250Mb Colorado tape backup, but what I'm most
concerned with is portability and reliability (vs capacity).  I've
only got a 210Mb drive to worry about (right now).

  A friend tells me that QIC-24 format will be readable just about
anywhere.  What are the most common tape formats, and who supports
them?

  Morgan
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From: barry@diva.Eng.Sun.COM (Barry Greenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Gateway 4DX-33V
Date: 14 Dec 1992 22:36:17 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: diva.west.sun.com
Keywords: local bus

I  would be interested to know some details of Gateway's local bus IDE interface.
In particular, can you do 32-bit (4-byte) repeated string moves to/from the 
controller rather than the 16-bit (2-byte) moves that are standard?  


Barry Greenberg (barry.greenberg@West.Sun.COM)
SunSoft

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: faruque@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Abdullah Faruque,334CH,3752,2654247)
Subject: Re: Zero Insertion Force (ZIP) sockets
Organization: Clarkson University
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:58:34 GMT

From article <1992Dec15.153154.568@crpmks.uucp>, by marcs@crpmks.uucp (Marc Snyder):
> 
> On the same note, does anyone know where someone can *buy* these types of
> sockets?  I have a friend that recently bought some full sized arcade
> type video games, and would like to easily switch roms.  He is looking
> for a place to buy these sockets.  Thanks.
> -- 

Digi-Key sells those kind of ZIF sockets (including the one for 486 CPUs).
I saw several different types they advertised in a recent Digi-Key catalog.
You may want to call them at 1-800-DIGI-KEY for more info. Also several other
mail-order electronic parts companies carry those sockets.

-Faruque
Email: faruque@sun.soe.clarkson.edu
From: root@cibbs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: ATI Ultra Pro RAMDAC chip
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 12:23:26 EST
Organization: DataSoft Consulting (Toronto, Ont. Canada)


jsicolo@mipos2.intel.com (James Sicolo) writes:

> 	How can I get some details about this chip?

Call ATI or email them at 74740.667@compuserve.com.

> 	What resolution/color does it provide? 

Adds 24bit colour support and non-interlaced 1280x1024 support. The RAMDAC
shipped with the VLB boards is 16 bit colour and 1280x1024 INTERLACED (Yuck!)
with 2 meg on the card.

> 	How much is it?

ATI says this is not avaialble as yet.

> 	Is it worth the price?

Is 24bit colour and non-interlaced 1280 worth it to you?
Mark

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From: knier@miller.cs.uwm.edu (Robert Knier )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: ISA pinouts
Date: 14 Dec 1992 05:12:53 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.9.13

	Would anyone now where I can obtain a copy of the pinouts
used for the ISA bus (16 bit and 8 bit)?



	Thanks,

	Bob Knier
	(knier@miller.cs.uwm.edu)
From: c23mkb@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Mahesh Bagade)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Thanks for reponses to query on "stacker" & "shadow ram"
Date: 18 Dec 92 20:53:39 GMT
Organization: Delco Electronics Corp.

Dear netters,

I thank all of you, who have responded to my queries.

More questions later....

Bye..

Mahesh
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From: lestrade@Ra.MsState.Edu (John Patrick Lestrade)
Subject: What do you think of the Gravis analog joystick?
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 14:35:43 GMT

Is it the ``best'' (quality/price) available?  any comments appreciated.
patrick

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From: vac@air16.larc.nasa.gov (Victor A. Carreno)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Philips Printer
Date: 14 Dec 1992 20:31:53 GMT
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: air52.larc.nasa.gov

Philips P5392

Does anyone know if this printer is IBM compatible?

Thanks,

vac.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,biz.zeos.general
From: scdorcy@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (JAMES DORCEY)
Subject: Re: Is ZEOS financially sound?
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date: 11 Dec 1992 14:09 EST  

In article <Bz27L7.8zE@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu 
(Iskandar Taib) writes...
>In article <921128392@ritz.mordor.com> ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Christopher 
Mauritz) writes:
> 
>>Well, I guess as one gets older support is more important. :-)
>>IBM may not be cutting edge, but they (in most cases) will doggedly
>>support their hardware even when it becomes apparent that it is
>>far out of date.  Also, there isn't much fear of Big Blue going bust
>>anytime soon.
> 
>Not according to the Nightly Business Report last night...
> 
>Last word was they're laying off people left and right...

So?  General Motors has been laying people off for the last 15 years and 
they ain't out of business yet. 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: kotsines@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Tom Kotsines)
Subject: Re: in-2000
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 19:28:48 GMT

In article <9212172327.aa17337@Bonnie.ics.uci.edu> hkhauv@Bonnie.ICS.UCI.EDU writes:
>
>Does anyone have IN-2000 SCSI controller by Adaptec?  Could you please
>tell me the meaning of the dip switches on the board?  Thanks.

The IN-2000 is made by Always Technology.  If this is what you are speaking
of, leave me mail and I'll send you a copy of the dip-switch settings.

[/]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: dsb@gtx.ummed.edu (Douglas S. Bowman)
Subject: Old Paradise autoswitch EGA2 Video card specs
Organization: University of Massachusetts Medical Center
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 21:59:18 GMT

I have an old Paradise Autoswitch EGA2 Video card that I 
want to use with a monochrome monitor but don't have the
specs.  Does anyone know the correct jumpers or dipswitch 
settings ??????

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From: notarus@uiuc.edu (Mark Notarus)
Subject: Re: Rediculously slow floppy drives after 286->486 upgrade. Help?
Originator: notarus@deja-vu.aiss.uiuc.edu
Reply-To: notarus@uiuc.edu (Mark Notarus)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 18:51:28 GMT

harrison@aurs01.UUCP (S. Keith Harrison) writes:
}-	Now I know that floppy drive access under DR-DOS 6.0 is slow,
}-	but now it is painfully slow.  In fact, it seems slower than
}-	when I had the 286.
 It is, i've tested it. *sigh*


}I'm about ready to try a new ide controller board.  I can get one locally for 
}$15. Am I on the right track?  Anyone else having this problem?


   Unless you're intending to buy one of those 300 dollar cache cards, with
the genie-on-a-chip, dont bother. I installed a new IDE card w/
my upgrade, and it's done no good. It's my opinion that my DMA channael
is messed up, because i think my hd transfer rate is down a bit, 
but that's a lot more subjectie than the phsyical swapping i did with my
floppy :)

   As an aside, i have a friend who had the same problem w/ his 386/40, and
ever since he's installd OS/2, it's been fast again. This persisted even
after he *wiped* os/2 off the drive.....is there something here? Is OS/2
the cureall of the ninetys? :)

mark
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: andys@picard.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Andy Say)
Subject: SCSI & RLL drives combined...  (continued)
Organization: Bellcore
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 20:03:38 GMT

Okay I posted to this group about a month ago about getting my SCSI and newly
purchased RLL drive working together in my machine.  I did get help and seem
to now have them working together.  My RLL drive is the primary drive and I
have the whole thing dedicated to Linux, the SCSI drive is my secondary drive
handing on an UltraStor 24F SCSI controller.  I am now experiencing some
quirks with the system and also need some other information.
   First after getting the two drives working together I found that my RLL
drive would boot Linux when the power was turned on since that was already
installed by the person I bought the drive from.  To be able to get into
DOS I have to boot from a floppy.  The first problem was that when I did
boot from floppy DOS did not recognize all four partitions of the SCSI drive
(it is a 340M Maxtor with the drive partioned as C, D, E, and F).  I fiddled
with the setup of my UltraStor and sort of went against the manual, according
to the manual if the board is put into ISA mode (which mine is secondary ISA)
you are suppose to set the other setting (don't remember which since I am at
work) to 16HD, 1 DRV (there is another number I am forgetting here), but when
I put in this setting the whole drive is not recognized.  I then restored it
to the same setting I had without the RLL which was 64HD, 1 DRV... This seems
to have brought back my whole drive visible to DOS booting from floppy, but
now Windows is running very unstable.  If I attempted to launch a second DOS
session it crashes.  I am thinking maybe I need to load the device driver
supplied with the card to support virtual DMA for Windows, although I never
had this installed before, maybe now I am in ISA mode I do need it, anyone
know for sure?
   Secondly to make this long winded story just a little bit longer, I would
like to get my system so that I can selectively boot Linux or DOS from the
hard drive so that I don't have to use floppies.  I was going to use LILO
with Linux but the whole reason I bought the RLL drive is because Linux does
not recognize my UltraStor card so therefor I am assuming LILO will do me no
good since the OS it is running from does not recognize the drive.  Is this
correct?  If so is there some program that I can run under DOS that will create
a boot sector for both Linux and DOS?
   Any help would be appreciated.

Andy



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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Macs/Amigas vs PCs
Date: 15 Dec 92 22:29:06 GMT
Organization: Indiana University

In article <1ffvsaINNabc@savoy.cc.williams.edu> 93jay@williams.edu (Jonathan Young) writes:

>Wow that's just begging for a flame, and in fact completelye
>erroneous. The mac could multitask long before Windows. Back when
>Jerry Pournell was waxing rhapsodic about multihour Desqview marathons
>to get an addition 10K of low memory per "window", Multifinder
>provided very usable easily as stable as pre 3.1-windows multitasking
>for *all* macs with at least 2 megs of ram. An argument could be made
>that macintosh multitasking is not "true" preemptive multitasking but
>making it so would have completely invalidated the entire software
>base.

Yeah.. I remember way back when. No one I knew (unless he had
4 or 5 Meg in his Mac - remember it cost a real bundle back then)
ran Multifinder. I remember playing with it and thinking it was 
neat - then the owner of the machine used it a little later and
it froze and he goes "WHO TURNED ON THE ^%&^#(%^$(@^%@$&* MULTI-
FINDER!!!!!?????" He had 2 Megs I think.. in a Mac II.

Meanwhile I was happily running Telnet, Ize and Wordperfect on
a Zenith 386 with Desqview and 2 Megs RAM..



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From: jeffd@hls.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Cyrex Processor Questions???
Date: 20 Dec 92 04:42:55 GMT

Readers,

	I would like to hear from other persons that have purchased systems or
Mother Boards with the Cyrex 486DLC-33+FPU.  I am contemplating a change from
the 386SX-20 I now use and this processor sounds like a good performance per
dollar option.

	There is the possibility for a 486DX2-66, but I will have to wait and
see.  I have also priced 486DX-50 system boards and given my fruthers I would
purchase one of those.  However the Cyrex chip is approximately half the price
of Intels chips.

	Also, what kind of performance gain would I see from the processor I
use now, to the Cyrex?  I priced an Opti chipset system board from Hi Tech for
388.00.  The 486DX-50 system board runs about 650.00. 

	I appreciate any information I get, thank you.  I can be reached via
Email to Jeffd@hls.com or just reply on this sub.    .s
From: rohling@westwood.mech.ubc.ca (Gerry Rohling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: FUYU Motehrboards
Date: 18 Dec 1992 18:28:55 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: westwood.mech.ubc.ca
Keywords: motherboards 486sx


I have a FUYU 20U0 486sx baby motherboard here but no info on it. Does anyone
know about this board? And if so any information would be most appreciated.
I need, in particular, information on the jumpers on this thing.

Thanks, in advance.

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Gerry Rohling
Mechanical Engineering                                       rohling@mech.ubc.ca
University of British Columbia
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: bob1@cos.com (Bob Blackshaw)
Subject: Re: Help, my system keeps crashing
Organization: Corporation for Open Systems
Distribution: na 
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 14:46:42 GMT

In <1992Dec14.220029.6656@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> psrk_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Peter Sierk) writes:


>	I have a 386/40 system which I put together myself.  Unfortunately,
>it tends not to work.  I've had more CMOS checksum failures than I can count
>and a lot of the time I can't even get the machine to turn on (it doesn't 
>even get the VGA BIOS up on the screen).  Every once in a while it will 
>crash and beep at me, usually letting me know that I've had a base 64k memory
>failure, or else a video error (I have a Diamond Stealth card).  I've even 
>had the system lock in the CMOS setup screen.                           
>	I'll finally be getting a chance to experiment with other equipment,
>so I was planning on trying a different power supply, and different memory.
>Can anyone think of anything else that I can try before I decide that my
>motherboard is junk?  Thanks in advance.

The CMOS checksum error sounds like your cmos battery is not holding
its charge, have you checked it?

Landmark makes a test kit that consists of a replacement BIOS ROM
chip(s) that is reasonably priced. You remove the regular BIOS and
put in Landmark's BIOS. When you power up, if it can't even get to
the point where the screen becomes active, it will beep a whole
slew of signals at you, indicating the problem area.

If you suspect your power supply, try setting the power good signal
to come from the motherboard rather than from the power supply. I've
seen a few power supplies that let this signal wander all over the
map.

Hope this helps.

>						Peter Sierk
>					psrk_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu    
 Bob.

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From: ohumukin@spectra.com (Kawika Ohumukini)
Subject: SCSI Controllers and Harddisks
Organization: Spectragraphics Corporation
Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc 
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 17:27:55 GMT


Anyone have any experience with the following SCSI controllers?

BUSLOGIC BT-542

BUSLOGIC 545S 

Adaptec 1542B


What is the DIFFERENCE between SCSI-1 and SCSI-2 functionally?

PERFORMANCE?

Does the 1542B really work with > 1GB drives (under DOS 5.0)?

1.2GB Drive Manufacturer/Model Recommendations?


Thanks for any comments and suggestions via Email.
Kawika 
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From: h8915726@hkuxb.hku.hk (Medusa)
Subject: Print on remote computer
Reply-To: h8915726@hkuxa.hku.hk
Organization: University of Hong Kong
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 10:59:18 GMT

Hi,

	Is it possible to print on remote computer, if the two
	computers are only connected thru' modem?

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University of Hong Kong
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: cb_rw@gsbacd.uchicago.edu
Subject: For sale: Bernoulli box w/2 20MB drives, adapter, & 12 20MB cartridges
Organization: 
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 00:52:33 GMT

For sale: Bernoulli Box: 2 20MB drives incl. adapter + 12 20MB cartridges

For sale by owner: 1 external Bernoulli Box with 2 20-megabyte drives
in one enclosure, a microchannel adapter card (which can be exchanged
for a nominal shipping charge with Iomega for an AT adapter card if
desired, or which I can exchange for you before you buy this), and 12
20-megabyte cartridges, for a total storage of 240 megabytes.

These drives are great because they combine the best features of hard
disks and tape backup drives.  Unlike a tape backup drive, you can
access the files just like you access the files on your hard disk: a
drive letter gets assigned to the drive.  For example, if you have one
hard disk labeled C:, the system automatically assigns the Bernoulli
drives as D: and E:.  But, unlike a hard disk, the storage capacity is
effectively unlimited: when you want more, you just buy more
cartridges (much, much cheaper than buying more hard disk drives).

I'll take the best offer for these.  Reply via e-mail to
cb_rw@gsbacd.uchicago.edu.  I'm in Chicago, but I can send these
anywhere you'd like.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
From: bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown)
Subject: Re: "Windoze" slow? Naah...Re: pc and mac: was RE: 486 and mac benchmarks
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 20:35:57 GMT

rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:

>In article <trimble.724558422@ph-meter.beckman.uiuc.edu> trimble@ph-meter.beckman.uiuc.edu (Chris Trimble) writes:
>>
>> cutting the data busses in half, like Intel does for the 486sx, 386sx, etc,
>> why does make Intel more advanced with product design. Motoroller is working
>> on the PowerChip as much as Intel is working on the P5, I'm sure.
>	I believe he's referringto Motorola's apparent inability to
>	get a faster version of the '040 out the door.  Just so you know, 
>	though, Motorola does produce crippled chips.  Not crippled
>	like Intel (FYI, the 386 dx halves the bus, the 486sx does not--

No it's:

386SX 32bit internal, 16 bit memory interface, external FPU (optional)
386DX 32bit internal, 32 bit memory interface, external FPU (optional)
486SX 32bit internal, 32 bit memory interface, external FPU (optional)
486DX 32bit internal, 32 bit memory interface, internal FPU 

Of course, Apple buys 32 bit internal/external '030 cpus from
Motorola and then figures out a way to make the memory interface
16 bit in the Classic II and LC II, or make the memory interface
run at 16MHz instead of the 32Mhz cpu speed in the IIvx and
Performa 600.

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From: ee_d316@ceres.kingston.ac.uk (Stevey Weavey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Quantum 120AT
Date: 16 Dec 1992 14:10:35 -0000
Organization: Kingston University, Kingston-upon-Thames
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: ceres.kingston.ac.uk

Hi
   Can someone tell me the number of cylinders, sectors and heads for a 
quantum 120AT (IDE). Also I need to know the jumper settings. I have a
diagram for the jumper settings but this displays 5 pins and I only have
3 pins!!!!!

Thanks


Steve
ee_d316@uk.ac.king
From: isc10085@nusunix1.nus.sg (NG YENG YONG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Is there an AMD/40 with 8 kb cache
Date: 21 Dec 92 02:53:23 GMT
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

A. Stegmeier (x03@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de) wrote:
: 
: Seems to be a general misunderstaning. Funny, the same occured to me in
: germany.
: The clue is, that there is a new *Chipset* with an 8kB builtin cache, so
: you don't have to add external cache + tag RAMs and sockets for them.
: These boards seem to work ok.
: 
: Achim

Does anyone know what is the above chipset with on-chip cache? Is it for
386DX motherboards only especially Am386DX-40 or for other cpus like
i486SX, i486DX?

Which country is the chipset from? Is it reliable? Does anyone has any
experience with it? Any performance comparisons with other chipsets?

Thanks in advance.



Best regards,
Steve


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