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From: joker@diku.dk (Morten Christian Holmgreen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Re: Can I upgrade my model 90 486/25 to 486/50?
Date: 30 Jul 92 21:22:59 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

RHS@garnet.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton) writes:

>I've heard about the ability to add an extra chip which doubles the internal 
>speed of a 486 processor. Is there any way to do this with a PS/2 model 90 
>running at 25MHz?

>Richard Stanton

Yep - no problemo!

I've got an 95 with a 25-SX and I've upgraded it with a OverDrive processor
that runs 50Mhx internally.

If you've got a 25-DX you should get an 486DX2 chip. You might also
need a upgraded reference disk that can adjust the processor complex
to the new CPU.

I higly recommend it, since it's a relatively cheap way to boost
performance (if you have a SX, the OverDrive also adds a math 
co-processor, which is build-in).

Regards

Christian
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From: bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion)
Subject: Re: Worthless IBM Diagnostics
Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 04:11:21 GMT

In article <BrIA6q.K8F@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jvmg9796@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Doc) writes:
>pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu (Pierre VonKaenel) writes:

>>If your parity error is an occasional thing, then the diagnostics may
>>not find the bad chip if it's working okay at the time.  This is a
>>problem I've run into many times using other memory checkers.

>When it starts happening every 5-10 minutes, thats more than occasional.
>And running diagnostics for 24 hours straight didnt pick it up once. I
>think the algorithms in the diagnostics are just lame, thats all.  They
>dont work the chips hard enough and thus dont catch the error.  

There really aren't a lot of good memory diagnostics available for PC's
today.   I remember about 10-15 years ago, a memory test for 32k could
take up to 15 minutes to run, doing walking bit, checkerboard, all
patterns, etc.

Doing that kind of test on a system with 4 megs of ram would take about
128 hours by my calculation.  Using todays faster machines would bring
it down to about a day or less.

And I've seen people impatient with the current tests, that really do
nothing more than check to see if a chip is in the socket.

I saw one test pass but the program failed.  A core dump indicated that
one bit was stuck.   Found a 64k chip nestled in among the 256k chips.
Tests passed because it really on checked for presence of a bit.


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From: DD01007 <DD01007@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA>
Subject: SCSI adapter recommendations?
Organization: McGill University
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 15:34:03 GMT

I would like to add a SCSI card to my PS/2 Model 70.
Please send or post your suggestions and I will
summarize to the group.

I plan to move up to OS/2 soon, so please tell me
if you know whether your SCSI adapter also works
with OS/2. Pricing would be helpful too.

Many thanks,

Kim Long
DD01007@MUSICA.McGill.CA
From: miles@aurs01.UUCP (Robert Miles)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Re: FAQ?
Date: 27 Jul 92 04:06:11 GMT
Reply-To: miles@aurw7a.aur.alcatel.com.UUCP (Robert Miles)
Organization: Alcatel Network Systems, Raleigh NC

In article <84212@netnews.upenn.edu> cjn@vaal.cpr.upenn.edu (Christopher Nagel) writes:
>Hello,
>
>Does anyone know the phone number of Kingston Technology, who make a 386 upgrade  
>for the PS/2 Model 60?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Chris

Kingston Technology Corporation
17600 Newhope
Fountain Valley, CA 92708

(714) 435-2600
FAX (714) 435-2699

BTW, I recently bought one of their 386SX boards for a 30-286, but
haven't installed it yet.

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                Systems, in Raleigh, NC, USA
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From: ae454@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Paul Simundza)
Subject: Re: 4 Mbytes memory modules on a PS/2 55sx: Help!
Reply-To: ae454@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Paul Simundza)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 14:15:56 GMT


In a previous article, vromano@nyx.cs.du.edu (Vincenzo Romano) says:

>I'd like to mount a 4 Mbytes memory module in my PS/2 55sx instead of its
>two 1 MByte standard modules. Here is my question.
>Can I mount such a module in my computer?
>I know that there should be problems with older machines but I don't know if
>my machine is new enough to support this module.
>

I have a 4 meg and a 2 meg simm in my 55sx.....How old is your computer,
and what size HD did it come with?

Mine is fairly new, 7 months with an 80 meg ...
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From: pszemkow@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Paul Szemkow)
Subject: List of PS/2 Error Codes?
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 07:53:36 EDT

Is there a complete list of IBM error codes for the the PS/2 line? PC/XT/AT?
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From: flaforest@vtrm01.uucp (Fred LaForest)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: High Rate of Mother Board Failures - Why?
Date: 29 Jul 92 15:07:37 EST
Organization: Vickers, Inc. - Troy, MI, USA

I am placing this question on the net for someone else.  
---------------------------------------------------------
High rate of motherboard failures on PS/2 MOD50, 50z, 55sx, and 60.
Problem usually starts with intermittent floppy drive errors. Floppy
is replaced, problem still exists, motherboard is replaced, problem
is resolved.  Has anyone out there had a similar type problem and
what resolutions were put in place?
-----------------------------------------------------------
Email or news response is okay.
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VMS/UNISYS 1100/UNIX/(Whatever else we have in the building) System Programmer
Vickers, Inc.                    GEnie:  FALAFOREST
Troy, MI  48007-0302
From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: MCA info
Date: 23 Jul 92 11:38:43 GMT
Organization: Aston University

I am looking for info on how to control the hard disk on a PS/2.
Does anyone have any ideas.

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From: paranjpe@leland.Stanford.EDU (Milind D Paranjpe)
Subject: Can I use 8087 on 80286 motherboard?
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 04:45:19 GMT

I finally upgraded from an 8088 to an 80286.  Can I use my 8087 on the new
motherboard?  I noticed that the motherboard has a 14.31818MHz crystal near
the 80287 socket.  Does this mean that the coprocessor actually runs at
4.77MHz?

Thanks for email responses, (and sorry if this is an FAQ)
Milind Paranjpe
paranjpe@leland.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: paranjpe@leland.Stanford.EDU (Milind D Paranjpe)
Subject: Re: Can I use 8087 on 80286 motherboard?
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 19:17:48 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.044519.9681@leland.Stanford.EDU> paranjpe@leland.Stanford.EDU (Milind D Paranjpe) writes:
>I finally upgraded from an 8088 to an 80286.  Can I use my 8087 on the new
>motherboard?  I noticed that the motherboard has a 14.31818MHz crystal near
>the 80287 socket.  Does this mean that the coprocessor actually runs at
>4.77MHz?
>

The following cobinations are possible

8086 and 8088           with 8087
80186 and 80188         with 8087 (need a special chip for signal decoding)
80286                   with 80287
80386                   with 80287 (not for 386 mode)
80386                   with 80387
80386SX                 with 80387SX
80486SX                 with 80487SX


Frank

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From: mcrw@hobbit.gandalf.ca (Mark Woodward)
Subject: Acer VGA and VESA drivers...
Organization: Gandalf Data Ltd., Nepean, Ontario
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 16:41:11 GMT


I'm looking for VESA drivers for an Acer VGA card, do they exist and can
anyone point me in the right direction?

The reason for this request is that I cant get any of the VESA drivers in the
Links386 package to work on the Acer card (its a 512K card). So before running
out to get a new VGA card I thought I'd ask the netwisdom :>

Thanks,
--== Mark ==--

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From: tsmaster@media.mit.edu (David LeCompte)
Subject: Re: Can I use 8087 on 80286 motherboard?
Organization: MIT Media Laboratory
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 14:51:14 GMT

In article <1992Jul31.111725.21557@dragon.acadiau.ca> 900073s@dragon.acadiau.ca (Donald Smith) writes:
[80x86 and 80x87 compatibilities deleted]
>  Yeah, and if anyone is bumb enough to buy an 80487, then I have a nice
>big bridge to sell you...  Or perhaps the Eiffel tower is more your speed??
>
>  The Math Co. for the 487 is *built in*.....
My impression was that the 486SX was essentially the 486DX minus the
math coprocessor. Have I been misled? I hate it when people misle me. :)

				-Dave
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From: leung@guardian.cs.psu.edu (Kin Ki Leung)
Subject: using uucp to do remote printing
Organization: Penn State Computer Science
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 17:00:11 GMT

The following is posted for a friend.
 
 -- 

I use direct line to connect an AT&T Starserver running System V 4.0.2
to a Sun server running 4.1.2, and set up uucp between the two systems.
Then I used lpadmin to set up printing from the Starserver to the
Sun system (ie the printer is connected to the Sun), I am able
to print from the Starserver, however, lpstat -t on the Starserver
still showed the jobs on the print queue even long after the jobs
were printed. What I could have done so that jobs were removed
from the queue after it was printed?


A second question: I have two Starservers, and I can set up uucp over
tcp/ip on the Starservers. With one of the Starservers (say A)  directly
connected to a Sun server, I believed I should be able to set
up printing from the second Starserver (say B) to the printer connected to the
Sun server without setting up another direct line, but on
Starserver B using lpadmin -p printername -s serverA!printer
does not seem to work, am I missing something ?

thanx

Ann
From: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Virtual Terminal SV/386 R3.2.2
Date: 27 Jul 92 17:41:41 GMT
Organization: The College On The Other Side Of Route One

In article <1992Jul27.141439.13309@mccc.edu> pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) writes:
=In article <tr.712204038@samadams> tr@samadams.princeton.edu (Tom Reingold) writes:
==If you want that sort of thing, run "screen" which has some
==features over vtlmgr anyway.
=
=I thought that screen required facilities not present in AT&T SV/386
=R3.2.2 UNIX (sockets? pttys? ??). Is that not so? Does screen recognize
="hot keys"?

Hmmm...here's the part of the readme from screen3:

"screen" is a window manager that allows you to handle several independent
screens (UNIX ttys) on a single physical terminal; each screen has its own
set of processes connected to it (typically interactive shells).  Each
virtual terminal created by "screen" emulates a DEC VT100 plus several ANSI
X3.64 and ISO 2022 functions (including DEC VT102 features such as line and
character deletion and insertion).

Since "screen" uses pseudo-ttys, the select system call, and UNIX-domain
sockets, it will not run under a system that does not include these
features of 4.2 and 4.3 BSD UNIX.

Tom?

Pete
From: kak6279@ultb.isc.rit.edu (K.A. Kirchoff )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Looking for 3b1 with 3.51 on, mine just died!
Date: 23 Jul 92 21:15:07 GMT
Reply-To: kak6279@ultb.rit.edu ()
Distribution: usa
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Originator: kak6279@ultb

Hi, my 3b1 just died, it doesn't do anything other than show me a
weird pattern on the screen, and the green LED stays on. The drive 
is fine though and I like 3b1's, plus I wanna recover what's on
the harrd drive.

If anyone is looking to sell a 3b1 please send mail to this account
(a friends, cause I won't be able to log on until I get another
machine.

Thanks,

Nick (my IP address is: nmw1638@{cs.rit.edu ultb.isc.rit.edu},
      this account is: kak6279@{cs.rit.edu ultb.isc.rit.edu}).
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
From: pjh@mccc.edu (P. J. Holsberg)
Subject: Virtual Terminal SV/386 R3.2.2
Organization: The College on the Other Side of U. S. 1
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 02:27:54 GMT

/etc/inittab starts /etc/vtgetty console console.

Is it possible to run /etc/vtgetty for any other port? If so, how? I
looked at TFM but ...

Thanks,
Pete
From: aland@informix.com (Colonel Panic)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: "Keyboard DISABLED" message - possible password protection?
Summary: CMOS setup
Keywords: KEYBOARD DISABLED
Date: 22 Jul 92 07:34:40 GMT
Organization: The Helen Keller-Bondurant High Performance Driving School for the Blind

In article <14449@umd5.umd.edu> eyu@snoopy.umd.edu (Ellen Yu) writes:
>I turn on my AT&T 6386E/33 WGS.  It runs through the diagnostics
>with no problems (every "PASS"es and the floppy drives and hard drive
>are recognized).  I get the AT&T MS-DOS 4.01 banner (the hard drive
>light goes on briefly) and then I get the following prompt:
>
>Keyboard	DISABLED
>
>The light on the A: drive is on and the whole system is locked.

Perhaps the keyboard is disabled in the CMOS setup (keyboards are optional on
those machines).  Try entering setup (CTRL-ALT-INS, I think) and make sure
that the entry under keyboard does NOT say "NOT PRESENT".  If it does,
that's your problem -- switch it to PRESENT or INSTALLED or whatever...


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I'm Pro-Anarchy...   and I Vote!
From: thad@public.BTR.COM (Thaddeus P. Floryan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Dusty Machines
Date: 27 Jul 92 00:46:09 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: BTR Public Access UNIX, Mountain View CA

In article <1992Jul24.073252.3395@spcvxb.spc.edu> terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.) writes:
>In article <1992Jul23.203818.16799@cuuxb.att.com>, fmcgee@cuuxb.att.com (~XT6561110~Frank McGee~C23~L25~6326~) writes:
>> DC 6150 - 40 full-lenth passes
>
>  Something strikes me as odd about this. Since QIC-150 is an 18-track ser-
>pentine recording system, that means that a backup followed by a compare
>operation will consume 36 passes, leaving -14 available by the completion
>of the restore.
>
>  Is it possible they meant 40 complete backup cycles?

Even that seems far too conservative.  I "tic" each tape I use every time
I use one, and some of my tapes have usage counts well into the hundreds;
this includes DC600A, DC615A (for demo shipouts), DC6150 and DC6250.

My recollection is that someone once posted to comp.periphs.scsi that a
tape lifetime of 3000 passes is "normal".  Even assuming 18-track serpentine
with a check pass, that's 83 complete backup cycles.

My "tic" marks on the cartridge label represent a complete backup cycle, so
I'm regularly getting, then, many thousands of complete passes.

In all these years, I've only had two bad QIC tapes, and those were ones
I didn't purchase new, so I suspect the previous owner of bad handling
practices.  I still have those two bad tapes and have been contemplating
sending them to 3M for analysis "just out of curiousity."

In comp.sys.sun.admin and/or comp.periphs.scsi last month, I posted the
proper method of cleaning QIC drives: across the grain of the head (and I
had a nice accompanying illustration which I don't care to type-in again).

Point being (with QIC drives especially), it's essential to get to the
heads and not to rely on cleaning cartridges (which cannot clean across
the grain).  Some of my drives have been in service for over 7 years now
and are still functioning fine (these are ALL Archives except for one
Wangtek on a Sun-3).

The advice about cleaning heads even after a new tape is first used is also
part of 3M's guidelines packaged with their tapes.

What I do is have a simple script which essentially retensions each newly-
purchased tape twice, and I cajole my secretary into running that script
against all new tapes; then I go in and clean the heads (at work using
TEX-WIPE pads, and at home with Teac Tape head cleaner solution and cut-up
(into little squares) diapers).  Don't laugh: diapers are perfect, don't
shed cloth fibers, and are also good for cleaning the windshields and glass
on one's car!  :-)

Thad Floryan [ thad@btr.com (OR) {decwrl, mips, fernwood}!btr!thad ]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,misc.forsale.computers
From: afc@shibaya.lonestar.org (Augustine Cano)
Subject: 3b2 software and manuals for sale
Organization: Multidisciplinary Designs Unlimited
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 16:30:23 GMT



I have a few extra 3b2 goodies:

===

Writer's Workbench Software  (still shrink-wrapped)
Writer's Workbench Software Product Overview  (booklet, shrink-wrapped)

===

Basic package

contains:

BASIC Programming Utilities (1 disk)
Software Generation Utilities (2 disks)
Extended Software Generation Utilities (1 disk)

The following shrink-wrapped packages look like man pages, with a tab
that says "SGS":
Software Generation Utilities Software Information Bulletin
Basic Programming Language Utilities Software Information Bulletin

===

Pascal package

contains:

Unix Pascal Compiler (1 disk)
Software Generation Utilities (2 disks)
Extended Software Generation Utilities (1 disk)

The following shrink-wrapped packages look like man pages, with tabs
that says "SGS" and "ESG":
Pascal Compiler - Release 1.0 Software Information Bulletin
Software Generation Utilities Software Information Bulletin
Extended Software Generation Utilities Software Information Bulletin
Update to AT&T 3b2 Computer Programmer Reference Manual, Issue 1

===

Professional Writer's Package, by a company called Emerging Technology.

Disk 1 contains: PWP shell, INDIX, SPELLIX
Disk 2 contains: EDIX, WORDIX

===

Documentation: (booklets)

AT&T 3b2 Computer UNIX System V Documentation Roadmap (about 230 pages)
Installing Software on the AT&T 3b2 Computer, Unix System V (20 pages)
AT&T 3b2 Computer Unix System V Release Notes (shrink-wrapped, ~80 pages)
AT&T 3b2 Computer Random Access Memory Expansion Manual (shrink-wrapped, ~60pp)
AT&T 3b2/3b15 Computer Unix System V FORTRAN 77 XLA+
	Programming Language Utilities Product Overview(shrink-wrapped, ~20 pp)

Manual pages:

AT&T 3b2 Computer Unix System V FORTRAN 77 XLA+
	Programming Language Utilities Release Notes(shrink-wrapped, ~60 pages)

AT&T 3b2 Computer Unix System V Release 2.0
	Security Administration Utilities Guide (shrink-wrapped, ~50 pages)

===

Interested?  Let me know.

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From: prmx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: clock driver for 6300?
Date: 22 Jul 92 11:56:21 EDT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cornell University

Howdy!
Would someone please e-mail the a copy of the previously posted clock driver
for the 6300.

Peter Morenus
From: pete@poverty.UUCP (Peter Schmitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Booting errors on 3B2/400
Date: 29 Jul 92 17:47:40 GMT
Reply-To: Peter.Schmitt@Dartmouth.EDU
Organization: Poverty Lane

Can some decifer this output for me?
I get the following output when turning on the 3B2:

FW ERROR 1-01: NVRAM SANITY FAILURE
               DEFAULT VALUES ASSUMED
               IF REPEATED, CHECK THE BATTERY

FW ERROR 1-01: NVRAM SANITY FAILURE
               DEFAULT VALUES ASSUMED
               IF REPEATED, CHECK THE BATTERY
UNKNOWN ID CODE 0x100 FOR DEVICE IN SLOT 2
EQUIPPED DEVICE TABLE COMPLETION WILL CONTINUE.
CHECK EDT.

DIAGNOSTICS  PASSED

Driver not found for *VOID* device (board slot 2)

UNIX System V Release 3.1 AT&T 3B2 Version 2
Node unix
Total real memory = 2097152
Available memory  = 1357824

*************************************************************************

Copyright (c) 1984 AT&T - All Rights Reserved

THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T INC.
The copyright notice above does not evidence and actual or
intended publication of such source code.

*************************************************************************


That's all that is output.  I think I'm expecting a Console login prompt.
But it just freezes right there.  Do I need a battery?  Is there a way
to reenergize the one installed?

-pete
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From: tr@samadams.princeton.edu (Tom Reingold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Stuff in /dev ???
Date: 31 Jul 92 01:31:32 GMT
Organization: Noo Joizy, USA

pjh@mccc.edu (P. J. Holsberg) writes:

$ If this is answered in any of the SV/386 R3.2.x manuals, please let me
$ know, but

$ 	what are the devices
$ 		pts000-pts015?
$ 		sxt000-sxt071
$ 		xt000-xt007 (these are probably virtual terminals??)

The xt and sxt stuff is used by shell layers which you invoke with the
"shl" command.  It's a way of having more than one session on a single
connection.  It does not keep track of the layout of your screen the
way "screen" does.

I don't know what the pts stuff is.
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