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From: ry01@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (ROBERT YUNG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Need PS/2 port to 9 pin serial port converter for MOUSE.
Date: 6 Nov 92 03:59:29 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

Hi! I have a Microsoft Bus mouse and it comes with a PS/2 style connecter. I
want to get an adapter to change that port to a serial connector. I know some
mice come with those kind of adapters, but I don't think the local computer
store would sell the part after I rip it out of the box. :) Suggestions of
places (ie: mail order) and prices please. Thank you.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: thurs_j@aelle.cs.odu.edu (Jason Thurston)
Subject: Need help on Seagate ST-01 SCSI controller.
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Va
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 21:28:09 GMT

I'm hoping someonw out in netland can help me. My roommate is trying
to install a CD-ROM using this card. Unfortunately, he has no manuals
on this wonderful thing. If anyone knows which jumpers control what,
if you could e-mail me with the info, I would appreciate it. My
roommate's sanity may depend on it!
						Thanks,
						 Jason

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From: dhaliwa@ecf.toronto.edu (DHALIWAL BIKRAM SINGH)
Subject: Mix RLL & MFM, Please!!
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 20:43:10 GMT

I have a 40 meg MFM drive with a MFM controller (a ST251), and
I have a 66 meg RLE drive with a RLE controller (a ST277R), can
I put them in the same computer?????  If not I would prefer to use
the st277R as a 40 meg MFM drive are the parameters the same as
a the st251 (ie cyl=820 , spt=17 etc) and how do I do this if the
MFM controller only has one Winchester ouput.   

Is there a controller out there that will let me mix the Two??
Please help, E-mail me because I usually do not get to read this
newsgroup that often.  Thanks everyone.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: chiang@cs.uiuc.edu (Sam. H.K. Chiang)
Subject: Insight PC's reputation.
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 23:01:06 GMT


I am posting this for my friend who is interested in buying PC and Bernoulli's
removable media drive from Insight & HDI.

What's the reputation of Insight.  Any information is welcomed.  Thanks.


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From: kotsines@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (KOTSINES  THOMAS ANT)
Subject: Re: Diamond Stealth vs. Speedstar 24X
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 06:33:32 GMT

>|> I am preparing for a 486DX-33 purchase soon and had been planning to
>|> purchase a Diamond Stealth card. One of the few vendors I'm
>|> considering said that their standard card is now the Diamond Speedstar
>|> 24X which, according to the sales person, is better than the Stealth
>|> and is supposedly phasing out the Stealth. However, I thought I had
>|> read/heard somewhere that the 24X was in fact a lower-end card with
>|> less performance than the Stealth. If you can help me set the record
>|> straight on this, please e-mail me or post a follow-up.

>But the reason its not so good (and being phased out as you say) is because it has no end
>of problems with applications other than windows.
>
>640x480 in 16.7 million colors
>800x600 in 32k colors and
>1024x768 in 256 colors.
>
>Its not billed as being as fast in windows as the stealth but I'd have a hard time beleiving
>that its unreasonably slow.  Its performance in DOS and in other apps is (from what I've heard)
>as good or better than the stealth.
>
>Not that the 24x is glitch free, but my understanding is that the card out-performs the stealth
>in almost every area.  Plus its cheaper.
> 
 
I have a Stealth and haven't experienced any problems either in windows or in
any other application, and I do run many a variety of applications including
autocad, auto3d.  In addition, I can use 1280x1024 resolution for many of
my apps, which is always nice.  Considering that most people will be using
their card at the highest resolution possible most of the time (or at least
the second highest), I would say a Stealth would be a much better choice if
for only the speed.  I would die with 640x480 resolution even if it did
have 16.7 million colors!

[/]
From: eck@infopls.chi.il.us (John Eckert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Adding Cheap RAM
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 92 22:22:21 CST
Organization: INFOPLUS support, Wheeling, IL

What's the cheapest way to add a meg of RAM 
to my 286 AT which now has only 640K?

eck@infopls.chi.il.us (John Eckert)


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eck@infopls.chi.il.us (John Eckert)
Infoplus BBS, +1 708 537 0247, v32bis. Home of Infoplus.
From: schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Phoenix BIOS - How do you get to CMOS setup?
Date: 8 Nov 92 18:49:11 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC

In article <1992Nov4.160816.741@blurt.oswego.edu> mulvey@blurt.oswego.edu (Allen Mulvey, SUNY, Oswego, NY) writes:
>In article <1992Nov2.232531.5389@PA.dec.com>, reisert@sttng.mlo.dec.com (Jim Reisert) writes:
>> 
>> I acquired a 286 machine with Phoenix BIOS.  How do you get to the
>> CMOS setup screen?
>
>I no longer have my 286 with Phoenix BIOS so I don't know the version 
>number. All I had to do was press <Ctrl-Alt-s> and it would pop up. There 
>was also instructions printed on the screen during boot but I don't recall 
>exactly what it said.

It's ctrl-alt.escape on some others.
On still others, it's ... boot the installation diskette and type "setup".
Note that the presence of a ROM setup program is an =OPTION= with Phoenix.


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From: tmolbach@Lise.Unit.NO (Thomas M|lbach)
Subject: Cache for 486sx/25Mhz
Organization: Norwegian Institue of Technology
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 15:46:02 GMT

I resently got my 486sx/25Mhz local bus mother board (Opti-chipset, AMI-bios)
BUT! It was without any cache! Are there anybody out there with the same 
motherboard? Could you please tell me what the numbers of the chips are?

Or could I simply use any kind of SRAM. In that case, which speed?
(I know the manuals SHOULD have told me this, but they didn't! They only
told me that I needed either 9x8k or 9x32k, the nineth is for tag.)

Thanks in advance,
  _______   _   _    ___    _   _    ___    ___
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    | |    | | | | | (_) | | |V| | |  _  |  __ \   \  Technology
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From: larner@atd.mke.ab.com (Dan Larner)
Subject: Memory Expansion Cards Std?
Reply-To: larner@atd.mke.ab.com
Organization: Allen Bradley Co.
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:25:56 GMT

I have a 386DX/33 clone with 8 meg on the motherboard, and would
like to expand to 16 meg.  The motherboard has a special memory
expansion slot on the far left (std 16 bit slot plus an extra 
connector) for a memory expansion board.  What I need to know is
whether there is a standard for these memory expansion boards - 
can I get one from nearly anybody and have it work?

-- Dan

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From: cbusch@ub.d.umn.edu (Chris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: How do you smooth scroll EGA
Date: 9 Nov 1992 16:09:37 -0600
Organization: University of Minnesota, Duluth
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: ub.d.umn.edu

Hello
  I am wondering what would be the most effective way of making the
320x200x16 EGA screen scroll. I have several ideas in mind.  
How do I smooth pan the EGA screen, I knew how to do it by
8 pixels at a time but I would like to pan the EGA video memory
one pixel at time for a very smooth effect.
Also is there any good animation techniques you know of?  It
must be fast.  If anything else, just give me a view pointers or
ideas in the right direction.
 
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"I guess Intel invented radioactiveware!"
"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore,
    be reguarded as a criminal offense." - E. W. Dijkista 
"High-level languages should remove burden from the programmer, not
 put burden on the person!"
Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:29226 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:14492 comp.security.misc:1685
From: rjc@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Caley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.security.misc
Subject: Security Key-cards
Date: 8 Nov 92 03:25:45 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Distribution: comp
Organization: Human Communication Research Center


I've been asked for information about key-card systems which can be
used to lock PCs so that they can only be used by someone with the
card. The system this person is looking at fits in the space of a
floppy drive and is sold by `DPS', I don't know the manufacturer. I
have no idea whather these things are useful or just the computer
equivalent of furry-dice, and would apreciate any comments pro or con
about them. 

Please email replies to me since I don't follow these groups.

Thanks.
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From: esova@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Edward R Sova)
Subject: Re: The P5 will be called the Pentium
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 20:34:35 GMT

>Wonder what Motorola has up its sleeve...
No doubt that Motorola will keep ahead of INTEL.  I don't think Intel was trying
to protect name copying from Motorola.  How long did it take INTEL to come up
with a 32bit processor, protected mode..many generations that Motorola
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From: tyrone@infinity.att.com (51233-Tyrone Shiu(HOC828)HRCP)
Subject: Need info on 486/33 ISA from Micro Profession Inc.
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 22:39:30 GMT
Keywords: 486

Hi:

I am planning to buy a 486/33 ISA PC from Micro Professional Inc.
Any comments/recommendations/bad news are appreicated.  Please response
directly.  Thank You

+--------------------------------+                          
| Tyrone Shiu                    |
| Email: tyrone@cbnewsi.att.com  |
+--------------------------------+
From: n9044398@henson.cc.wwu.edu (Eric Munson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Monitor screen damaged by Magnet
Date: 9 Nov 92 21:24:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: henson.1992Nov9.212444.4683
Organization: Western Washington University

bmutas@bnr.ca (Bryan Utas) writes:

>My five year old son decided to see what would happen if he placed
>a magnet on my SVGA CTX monitor.  Well, he found out.  The two areas
>where the magnet were placed now have 'shadows' associated with them
>(ie: darker areas).  This is especially noticeable if the background
>is light in color.

>Does anyone know if there is a fix for this sort of problem.  If so,
>what type of equipment would I need?

>Please post to the net as I don't have email access.  Thanks in advance.

>Bryan.
   Go to a local tv repair store and get it degauzed (sp). I had the same
thing happen to my tv.  You might be able to borrow the degauzer and 
do it at home. (I was)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: spcberto@psyche.spc.uchicago.edu (Robert Osterlund)
Subject: EMF interfering with modem communications--Any remedies?
Summary: Line noise is screwing my on-line sessions.  What can I do?
Keywords: modem, communications
Organization: University of Chicago, SSPPCC
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 21:30:42 GMT

Last weekend, we moved into a new home close by a local radio station.  I
had expected EMF interference degrading our television reception, but I was
disappointed to discover that it is affecting our phones as well.  The phone
lines are quite noisy, and if you listen closely you can make out the voices
and music of the radio station's broadcast.  Some times are worse than
others.  The phone company says there is nothing it can do.

Needless to say, this is having a bad effect on my modem communications.
It is hard to establish connections, and twice I have lost connection in
mid session.  Text scrolls across the screen in fits and starts as data
is transmitted and retransmitted through the line noise.

I suppose dropping my baud rate will help, but is there anything else I
can try?  The situation is not so bad that I can't read news, answer e-mail,
etc., but I expect downloading may well be effectively impossible.

Can anyone offer any advice?  (Other than moving again, I mean.)

Bob Osterlund
berto@clio.spc.uchicago.edu
SSPPCC--University of Chicago
From: gallenba@igd.fhg.de (Jens Gallenbacher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Summagraphics driver wanted
Date: 28 Oct 92 20:59:56 GMT
Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, 6100 Darmstadt, Germany


Hi all,

I own a Summagraphics MM1201 compatible tablet. Are there any drivers
to use it with Windows in absolute positioning mode?

And are there any drivers for emulating a mouse to get a quasi 
absolute mode (if the stylus is lifted and set down somewhere around,
the mousecursor should move to the corrosponding position).

Thanks a lot in advance for any answers.

Jens Gallenbacher,
gallenba@igd.fhg.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: law30056@nusunix1.nus.sg (TAN KEN HWEE)
Subject: Everex Tape Drive
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 12:39:25 GMT


I've got an Everex Tape Drive hooked up to a workstation on a LAN
running Novell 2.x.  The Everex s/w for tape backup is quite bad and I
would like to try 3rd party s/w.  Does the Backup that comes with
Central Points PC Tools 8 or Norton Backup work with such a tape drive?
Are there any problems with backing up open files on the network?

I suppose this post could just as well be in a software newsgroup but I
think that there's enuff need to know Everex's tape drives to qualify it
for c.s.i.p.hardware.  

Would appreciate e-mail responses, and will summarise if there's enuff
interest.  Thanks in advance.

KenHwee Tan
National University of Singapore 
Law30056@nusunix.nus.sg
Law30056@nusvm.nus.sg
From: vo@be.seas.upenn.edu (Al Bundy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Need help from PC Guru.
Date: 13 Nov 92 01:22:54 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

I have the Mac LaserWriter LS, and I want to use that printer for the PC.
Is it possible to do that?  If yes, how can I do that?

Please send me mail at vo@eniac.seas.upenn.edu

Thanks for your help.
From: dlee@oasys.dt.navy.mil (David Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: spinrite
Date: 12 Nov 92 17:30:13 GMT
Reply-To: dlee@oasys.dt.navy.mil (David Lee)
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD



I am trying to run Spinrite II.. I'm not a computer geek and seem to
be having some problems..I need help!!  I remember successfully using
Spinrite on my system about a year or so ago but can't remember how
I was able to do it...

It seems that RAM resident programs will not allow Spinrite to do its
thing.. However, I boot up my system (Headstart Vendex II) using a floppy
disk and not my hard drive so as to avoid bringing on line the menu
programs.. My system is an IBM compatible 286 (AT) unit..

My question is this.. Is there a DOS version which produces TRS programs
(disk caching?) when I boot up.. I thought that my floppy disk had a
DOS version left over from my IBM PC Jr. and that I could boot up my
computer and then run Spinrite.. But it doesn't seem to want to run..
I keep getting the following message:

"Inter-sector Timing Analysis indicates that disk caching software is
active. Spinrite is unable to operate in the presence of this disk caching.
Please remove the disk caching before preceeding."

Renaming my autoexec.bat file and booting up from the hard drive also
doesn't appear to work..

Anyone give me some help???  Thanx.
.
.
.
...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mroberds@mcs213d.cs.umr.edu (Mathew C Roberds)
Subject: Re: Low $ color printing on HP 500
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 05:47:18 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Rolla
Summary: How to maybe do this cheaply 

  Another way to do color might be something called the 'Omicron' process.
This was written up quite a bit about 1-2 years ago in the 'Hardware 
Hacker' column of Radio-Electronics.  Basically this stuff was sheets of 
color that would stick to toner (copier, laser printer, etc.).  You would
print your image normally (on a b&w printer) and then cut out these sheets of
color and tape them to your original.  Then you ran the image plus the color
sheets back through the laser printer (but didn't print anything).  The heat
remelts the toner and some of the color sticks to it.  Presto, color images
from a laser printer!   It wasn't "true" color, just blocks of color, but
for some applications it worked well.  It could (I think) also be used with
a black Omicron sheet to make "really black" images for making PC boards,
or lithographics cameras, etc.  

If this is old hat or not useful I'll be quiet.
If there is interest, I'll try to dig up some of the articles on it.

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From: orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net (Orville R. Weyrich)
Subject: Re: Formatting hard drive with one bad head
Reply-To: uunet.uu.net!weyrich!orville
Organization: Weyrich Computer Consulting
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 92 08:51:53 GMT

In article <Bx75nq.HK9@news.cso.uiuc.edu> walder@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (John Walder) writes:
> I am trying to low-level format a Seagate ST-4096 80 MB hard drive from
> an IBM AT.  When formatting it one head consistently fails and thus the
> bad track map runs out of room.  Does anyone know of a way to reformat
> Thanks, John

It depends on which head is bad and what your bios is. Ideally, it is the 
ninth head (head 8) which is bad and your bios supports user-defined disk
geometries.

In such a case, you just define a disk with one fewer heads. If it is the
first head (head 0), then you are SOL. For intermediate cases, you choose
a disk type with no more cylinders and no more heads than the number of good
heads BEFORE the bad head. You will of course loose capacity.

I think it costs about $200 to rebuild an ST-4096. It is not really worth it,
since you can get new IDE's for about that price if you shop carefully. That
is, unless you have two ST-4096's so that you want to stay with MFM.

orville

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From: Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Low sound mixing speeds
X-To: ALL
Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 21:26:00 GMT

    I know that this might not be the proper group, but since I don't get
comp.sys.ibm.soundcard, this is the closest I have.

    I'm having trouble getting my computer to mix above 8mhz on my 386-33.
I have a Gravis Ultrasound now, but this problem I had also with my
SoundBlaster 1.0.  It's not the fault of any TSR's or device drivers that I
have, because I've tried it out without anything loaded.

    Any suggestions?

                                                Andrew
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis
Date:         Tue, 10 Nov 92 21:37:04 CST
From:         C09615DK@wuvmd.wustl.edu
To:           NETNEWS@WUVMD
Subject:      Compressor?
Newsgroups:   comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware

I'm looking for a disk compaction Utility that may (if possible) be in some
FTP site somewhere.

Let me rephrase that a it...

Does anybody know of a RELIABLE program to compress my Hard Drive (sort of like
Stacker) which I could find in an FTP site, and if so, where...

Thanks in advance--Dan K

(Please e-mail an answer to c09615dk@wuvmd.wustl.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: jnv@cl.cam.ac.uk (Neil Viljoen)
Subject: Enhanced Par Port Info
Reply-To: jnv@cl.cam.ac.uk
Organization: Cambridge Hardware Verification Group
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 21:22:52 GMT

-------
According to my spec I have one of these on my Compaq. I would like to use
this for some TTL inputs and outputs. Could somebody please point me to some
information on this type of port.

Thanks 

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Subject: <None>
From: malichon@miavx2.ham.muohio.edu
Date: 10 Nov 92 23:01:31 EDT
Organization: Miami University, Hamilton campus

I am in a desperate search for the key-combination to get into the
CMOS setup on my WYSE 386 Phoenix BIOS version 3.52. Upon bootup,
the monitor reads 
	"Invalid Configuration Information - Please run SETUP program"
   Can someone PLEASE help me, I'm losing my sanity.

ALSO, what is the difference between a 486sx and a 386dx with a Math-Co
   and an EISA BUS? excuse me, both are 33mhz.

	Does anyone know?


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