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From: davidw@auck.irl.cri.nz (David White)
Subject: Re: Does the Diamond Speedstar 24x Have 1024 x 768 x 16M color drivers?
Organization: Industrial Research Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand
Date: 13 Oct 92 00:18:43 GMT

In <1992Oct12.202735.14320@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> shim@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Sam Shim) writes:

>In article <1992Oct10.013604.15307@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> tkhut@ap.cl.msu.edu (Scott Karre) writes:
>>
>>	I just purchased a Diamond Speedstar 24x SVGA board, and the stats 
>>say that it can run 16 million colors only in 640 x 480 mode.  Are there
>>new drivers out there that allow you to get 16 million colors or even
>>32 K colors in a higher resolution mode?  Or are there new drivers out
>>there for the 24x that give improved performance?  Thanks!

>Diamond released new Window 3.1 drivers on their bbs last week.  It seems
>to be a bit faster than the old drivers.

Would some kind person please upload the newer drivers to cica. Or if they
are already there, a pointer to the filename and directory would be great!
 Thanks.

david
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: chungy2@aix.rpi.edu (Yau Felix Chung)
Subject: 486-66 by "the real thing" vs "chip doubler"
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 23:17:14 GMT

Hello all!

Could someone tell me if it "better" to have a 486 66 Mhz computer by 
using a chipt doubler or by replacing the 486-33 CPU by the 486-66 chip?  Also,
is getting the chip doubler necessarily the least expensive of the two?

The reason I would like to find out is that the new board I got from
Gateway has an "upgrade" socket.

Thank you in advance.

-F.
 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown)
Subject: Re: SpeedSTAR 24x drivers
Keywords: Diamond SpeedSTAR 24X SVGA Drivers
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 17:59:05 GMT


Diamond has a new driver for 1024x768x256.  They are really fast.  I got
25,000 cps on "imagetext system font" on winbench.  There are some bugs
in the driver, but you may or may not notice.  The new version is 2.02.

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Bailey Brown                               "Above all else, confusion reigns."
Intergraph Corporation                                  
bbrown@casca.b11.ingr.com                              Procol Harum
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: fss@rock.concert.net (Franklin S Schultz -- TRIO Information Systems)
Subject: bios set-up info for ibm 'r44' drive
Organization: CONCERT-CONNECT -- Public Access UNIX
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 16:24:21 GMT

Hello,
I am trying to find the ibm pc bios set-up information for an IBm disk drive labelled :
 R44 (also 665). It is a full height, 5.25 drive. 

Thanks for any pointers.

Sean. (fss@rock.concert.net) 
trio infomation systems.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: jain@helios.jpl.nasa.gov (Abhinandan Jain)
Subject: OptiQuest 2000D 15" monitor -- opinions wanted
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 20:17:16 GMT


I am thinking of getting the OptiQuest 2000D 15" monitor for a new
Gateway 2K system that should be on its way soon. I would like to hear
any of your experiences or opinions about it. At $570 it is less
expensive than many of the other 15" monitors while still having pretty
good specs.

Thanks for your help.

abhi

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: dang@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Daniel Gentry)
Subject: Adapting keyboards to IBM PC
Summary: Need to adapt WYSE-60 keyboard to PC
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 02:14:05 GMT
Keywords: keyboard

I'm very picky about keyboards, and the one I use most is
on my wyse-60 keyboard at work.  When I try to use the 
standard keyboard that came with my PC, I have to shift
gears and end up hitting "return" when I meant to hit "|".

Does anyone have any experience adapting a wyse-60
keyboard to a PC?  Any help or leads for information
would be greatly appreciated!

Dan Gentry

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: hanke@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Norbert Hanke)
Subject: Re: Compaq Portable II Video
Keywords: Compaq Portable II Video Compatibility
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 11:15:03 GMT

In article <Bw2yJ4.LFn@da_vinci.it.uswc.uswest.com> dfeldman@lookout.it.uswc.uswest.com (David Feldman) writes:
>Is this display compatible with anything to get graphics resolution modes higher than CGA?
>
>
usually, these Compaq gas plasma displays are capable of 640x400 graphics.
They are compatible to the old AT&T 6300 PC.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp
From: kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann)
Subject: Media Vision - Thunder Board
Organization: Zeos International, Ltd
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 17:57:02 GMT

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From: magick@iastate.edu (Magick Man)
Subject: Where to buy 486DXs
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 06:31:40 GMT

I'm looking for the best place to buy 486DX 33MhZ systems. I'd like a place
that has been known to be reliable, offers good support, and has good
(and preferably lower end) prices. I'd like to keep it around or below $2000.

Please respond by mail. Thank you very much.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 92 16:31:54 EDT
From: Jong Gyun Lim <lim@cs.columbia.edu>
Subject: FORSALE: 286/12 EGA 40 Meg

(Today, I posted the following ad on the forsale newsgroups, but I decided
to cross post it here, too, for the potential customers here who might want
to buy a second pc for hardware hacking or simple wordprocessing....)


			   ---------------------

11-Oct-92 19:48:24-GMT,1853;000000000001
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 92 15:48:24 EDT
From: Jong Gyun Lim <lim@shadow.cs.columbia.edu>
To: misc.forsale, misc.forsale.computers, ny.forsale, cu.bboard
Subject: FORSALE: 286/12 EGA 40Meg

286 12 MHz (actually 13.6 MHz due to 0 wait)
- Pheonix BIOS
- 1 meg memory
- 40 MB Segate ST 251-1 HDD (28 ms access time)
- Western Digital floppy/fixed disk controller
- 1.44 Meg floppy drive (also 1.2 Meg is there, but errs now and then)
- imTEC 1453M1 14" EGA color monitor (0.31mm dot pitch)
	- text (green) & color switchable
	- Note: Aged and the contrast has gone weak.  When you first turn
	  it on, it will be sick for about 3-5 mins, and then gradually it
	  will "heal" itself and deliver a sharp contrast.  
	  Excellent EGA colors.
- EG-3000 EGA adapter card w/ 256K
- Anchor 2400 baud external modem (100% Hayes compatible)
- PC Mouse (the original 3 button PC mouse, MS compatible, softwares, manuals)
- 101 keyboard 	
- 1 parallel and 2 serial ports
- 8 expansion slots (some already occupied)
- 200 Watts power supply
- cables: everything you need plus more (like 6' parallel printer cable, 9-15
	pin converter)
- plastic tower stand.  I used it to stand my computer on its side.
- original software and manuals are all there: Setup 286, DM disk manager,
	EG-3000 EGA utilities w/ tech manual, PC Fullback (w/o manual), 
	DOS 3.1 (w/o manual), Zen Professional package (spread sheet, word
	processor, data base), Tetris (w/ manual!)
- Also, the hard disk is filled with sharware softwares (games, gifs, gls,
	bible, pianoman, globe, EGA CAD tools, emacs, kermit, pc magazine
	power tools, and about 30 meg more of other goodies and surprises)




Suggested bidding range: $400 to $600 plus Shipping.

Highest bidding by Holloween.   Boo.


212-939-7113 or
lim@shadow.cs.columbia.edu


Jong
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: sknkwrks@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter)
Subject: Re: Need help on upgrading a v.32 modem to v.42
Organization: Skunk Works Software Co.
	<1992Oct3.035640.20653@unlv.edu> <1992Oct15.165257.7343@cs.odu.edu>
Date: 16 Oct 92 01:03:01 GMT

In article <1992Oct15.165257.7343@cs.odu.edu> imbri_m@aesc.cs.odu.edu (Mark Imbriaco) writes:

>Why wouldn't you consider a modem without v.42bis?  I have a GVC v.42 with 
>the port locked at 19.2k and I ran it side by side with a v.42bis modem 
>noticing little or no difference.  MNP functions almost as well, and if you
>are doing file xfers you would want it turned off for better performance 
>anyway.. right?

V.42bis is smart enough to turn itself off when it detects a
significant amount of pre-compressed data.  Besides, who sells
high-speed modems anymore that have MNP, but that don't have V.42bis?

(I know I left a post on this subject here a while ago...did I mention
the Infotel (Zoom) V.32 modem that normally ships with neither MNP nor
V.42bis?  Avoid those like the plague.)

  _/_   Scott Alfter                             Internet: sknkwrks@cs.unlv.edu
 / v \  Call the Skunk Works BBS today!
(IIe (  (702) 894-9619 300-14400 V.32bis Apple II/IBM/Star Trek/Aerospace
 \_^_/  Ask me about SoftDAC--digital audio for your IIe/IIc! Apple II Forever!

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.arch.storage
From: kenny@osf.org (Kenneth Crudup)
Subject: Re: TAR compatible tapes from PC SCSI tape drive
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 21:10:33 GMT

In article <Bw5xuu.7q9@cs.dal.ca>
matheson@open.dal.ca (Steven Matheson) writes:
>I have a user at a field site who needs to make UNIX TAR compatible 
>exabyte tapes from his PC.  He has an Adaptec #AHA1520 SCSI board 
>and a 2.3 Gb exabyte (8mm) tape drive.

I had a similar need. I hate DOS-style backup programs, and would
like be able to xfer onto real (read: UN*X) machines if I have to. I was
able to make my Archive Viper 2150S (150MB QIC cartridge) and AHA 1522
work, and you should be able to also, following these steps:

	Call Adaptec, and get the latest version of the ASPI2DOS
	software (this is the only cost item, at least). I got mine
	with a package deal w/the 1522 from a friend, so I don't
	know how much it will cost.  If you are not running SCSI disks,
	you can probably get away with just running the ASPI2DOS.SYS
	driver. I don't have SCSI disks, so I don't (use the /I switch).
	Send me E-mail if you need to.
	
	ftp into oak.oakland.edu and cd into /pub/msdos/dskutl (I'm
	not exactly sure about the last directory name). Get a series
	of files called ASPI*.ZIP. Unpack these, and in ASPIBIN.ZIP
	there are two files, CTCTRL.EXE and TAR.EXE (and a readme
	file). CTCTRL is a program like "mt", and TAR is obvious. It's
	GNU tar.

Good luck! The only problem I've had from day one was I can't run it
under WinWoes (which is OK, as I only use that to view dirty JPEG pix),
and the QIC-II format is sllllooooow. At least with my drive, and a "b"
set to 32 under TAR, I get full-speed streaming (with no backspaces). YMMV.

	-Kenny

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From: jjs@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Jay Jeffrey Schuh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: BUS TIMEOUT in Win3.1 with .WAVs on sound blaster/MCV
Date: 13 Oct 1992 04:10:00 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4
Originator: jjs@csd4.csd.uwm.edu



	I receive a Microchannel Bus Timeout....System Error
	whenever I try to play a .wav in Windows 3.1.  Does
	anyone have a similar problem or quick fix for the
	situation.  Creative Labs notes say to start Windows
	in standard mode then exit and begin in Enhanced mode
	but this hasn't worked.

	Thanks in advance

	Jay

	jjs@csd4.csd.uwm.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
From: mjalava@lk-hp-15.hut.fi (Mika Matti Jalava)
Subject: Re: What's Special about PS/2?
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 09:17:12 GMT

The prices of spare parts. We have about 120 PC's in a commercial
college where I do some part-time work, and 36 of them are IBM PS/2
machines. That's 30 %, but somewhere like 80 % of the money spent on
spare parts is used to keep the IBM's running. Of course, some money
is saved because the PS/2 is very easy to repair - you usually find
the problem by running the diags and change the defective parts.

At least in Finland the PS/2 spare parts are VERY much more expensive
than those of the clones. For example the diskette drives in the model
50 don't take too much school use (rather heavy, everyone uses their
own diskettes to save the work instead of the hard drive) before
breaking. And the drive costs about 3-4 times as much as a generic
clone high density 3.5" drives.

We have found out that it is cheaper for us to rely on clones. They
last longer and are cheaper to repair. You get (here, at least) much
more power for the money. And if you can't repair the machine, you
just buy another and use the old one as spare parts. And the best part
is that you are not depending on only one vendor (this is not to say
that you can't trust IBM being around for some time, but that you can
always choose where to buy machines or parts depending on prices and
other factors). The IBM's are just too incompatible, you don't get too
much support from anyone else but IBM itself - and that comes at a
relatively high price.

	Mika
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: NEED PS/2 accessories/add-ons
From: oberland@vax.sonoma.edu
Date: 15 Oct 92 15:38:40 -0800
Organization: Sonoma State University

Looking for:
IBM PS/2 Display adaptor

(enables you to use VGA on a model 25)


also:a 720K floppy, hopefully one of the PS/2 types
(Note:needs not to be-using it for my system disk only)
explain: Macgine is a terminal, basicaly.  Use it to access NEWS and 
my account.
I need a disk drive to stick the system on.  ability to access the disk is
NOT important(ie: odd-looking drive will be placed behind the plastic
drive-hole cover).  Hope this makes sense. 
Must it be a IBM PS/2 drive?  I would think not, personally.

I cannot locate a 720K drive locally(they want 55 for a 1.4 which will not
work).

Also, the main reason I want VGA is that I view a lot of GIFS and such.
Plus, a neat Cad (simple one) or game or two would be neat.

Joe
P.S. Messy tweaking of the hardware is not out of the question.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
From: rjones@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Ronald Jones)
Subject: Re: What's Special about PS/2?
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 21:38:14 GMT

In article <sheldon.718907791@pv1413.vincent.iastate.edu> sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon) writes:
>
> We've looked at IBM's newer models, but a PS/2 computer is still twice
>the price of a similarly equipped clone.  Even at educational prices.
>

I don't really think this is true anymore if you compare apples with
apples. Look at the 9577 for example:
486DX/2 66-33 with 8MB exp to 32 on MB with a 400MB (11.5 ms) hard
disk SCSI-2 busmaster controller and with xga-2. NEP price is $3510.

You cant compare this to some ISA clone with IDE drive and Svga. You
should compare it to EISA with ESDI or SCSI cached controller
and S2 or ATI 8514 graphics. I think you will find very favorable pricing.
I looked at a DELL recently and concluded that the IBM was cheaper. Also
IBM has 3 year 24 hr, 7 day warrantee.

I own a couple of cheap fast clones. I use them at home and in my office.
I don't consider them "toys" I just wont use them for "mission critical"
stuff like our college network. Not just because their IDE drives cant
cut it when loaded up with network traffic but neither will their
reliability! Their ISA bus is just fine to run a serial port modem or
printer but not for a busmaster Token Ring card and SCSI hard disk 
controller.

BTW I also own a Mod 70 and after 2 years of operation it was revealed that
it had a defective 110MB hard drive. I got a new one from IBM (free). Ask
yourself, do you know any other manufacturers who would do this for  their out
of warrantee parts. You will be lucky to find many of them still in business.



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
From: nelsonis@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (NELSON IAN S)
Subject: 486slc? What is it?
Summary: What is this processor?
Keywords: 486 slc
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 20:11:57 GMT

What exactly is IBM's 486slc?  I know Cyrix is making a processor called
the 486slc, but from what I can tell it is just a marketing ploy to sell a 
386 with cache.  Is the 486slc in the new PS/2s an IBM made processor or 
is it a Cyrix processor.  Also, what kind of stats does it have? Which would
be the better processor to get the slc or the Intel?
thanks,
Ian Nelson
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From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
Subject: Re: What's Special about PS/2?
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 16:36:31 GMT

In <1992Oct11.204721.7578@scott.skidmore.edu> pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu (Pierre VonKaenel) writes:

>In addition, we've had few mechanical problems with PS/2s.  My kids
>have had more problems with their ISA clones then I've experienced
>with my PS/2 at home or the ones at school.  The one negative thing -
>MC adapters cost more, are harder to find, and may not exist for all
>products.  Cost - well, I always get educational prices for our
>department, so they're not so bad.  (Of course recently, when my kids
>needed a PC, even IBM's discount couldn't match a Northgate or Gateway
>386-SX.)  Now, their pricing is coming down, so it may be a good time
>to get one.

 Out of all the machines we have in our lab(around 30 from various
vendors and years), the original IBM XT and IBM AT have been the most
reliable.  The PS/2 Model 70 we have has been the most unreliable.
The clones are average, or slightly above average.

 Other's experience may vary.  But we've made a decision never to purchase
another PS/2 ever again.  Even if we did just get a lemon our reasons are
quite simple, the costs do not justify the performance.  This PS/2 runs
slower than a 386SX-16 ISA machine I have at home.

 We've looked at IBM's newer models, but a PS/2 computer is still twice
the price of a similarly equipped clone.  Even at educational prices.

 The one thing that I have found positive about this machine:  When I added
new memory the machine has 3 SIMM slots.  2 of them were filled with 1 Meg
SIMMs, I was able to place a 2 Meg SIMM in the last slot.  It configured
easily

 Unfortunately we still have to live with the "UNDER NO CONDITIONS SHOULD
YOU FORMAT THE HARDDRIVE" sticker on the machine, cause it takes half a 
day to mark out the bad sectors manually.


-- 
Steve Sheldon         sheldon@iastate.edu
Iowa Cooperative Soil Survey Resource Unit
2142 Agronomy, Iowa State University  (515) 294-5429
From: U54345@uicvm.uic.edu (Darius Vaskelis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Re: BUS TIMEOUT in Win3.1 with .WAVs on sound blaster/MCV
Date: 13 Oct 92 15:03:40 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago

>        I receive a Microchannel Bus Timeout....System Error
>        whenever I try to play a .wav in Windows 3.1.  Does
>        anyone have a similar problem or quick fix for the
>        situation.  Creative Labs notes say to start Windows
>        in standard mode then exit and begin in Enhanced mode
>        but this hasn't worked.

Make sure you have the latest drivers... older versions had problems, and
even the latest ones have quirks.

Some people have reported that disabling DMA transfers in the SYSTEM.INI
in the [386Enh] section (DMA=Off?) makes the problem go away.  I'm not
certain if that's the proper command to do this, perhaps another kind
soul can post the proper command in SYSTEM.INI.

- Darius
I do not speak for IBM Corp.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
From: tobe7093@corvair.edu (tobey christophe)
Subject: PS/2 Model 70 FOR SALE
Reply-To: tobe7093@nova.gmi.edu
Organization: GMI Engineering & Management Institute
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 07:16:11 GMT


If anyone is interested I posted my PS/2 model 70
for sale in misc.forsale.computers.

Chris.
tobe7093@nova.gmi.edu
From: coleman@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Michael A. Coleman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Ailing 55sx for sale.
Date: 13 Oct 92 01:26:43 GMT
Distribution: austin
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX


	My 55sx is in the process of kicking it.  Occasionally the system 
locks up and reports a 110 error message.  Upon running the Reference Diskette
tests a System Board Async Port Error 1102 and the advice to replace the
system board are produced.  Still runs.  As I have ordered a Gateway 2000
486-66-dx2, I am willing to sell my entire setup rather cheaply.   I have

	8515 monitor
	6 mb ram (one 4 mb MPM module, one 2 mb IBM module)
	SoundBlaster PRO Micro Channel Version (good compatibility,
	for the most part)
	Intel 80387sx Math CoProcessor
	IBM Mouse
	60 MB HD (and I'll throw in Stacker 2.0 software)
	Pacific Rim External 5.25" 1.2 MB Floppy
	
	I am asking $1000; however, since a new system board costs $600,
I will be considerate.  I would much rather sell the system as a whole than
haggle over the parts.  Again, if few are interested, I'll reconsider that
as well.  Do not write about the demerits of clones; I can produce ten times
as much on the general attitude IBM has personally shown me over the two years
I have owned my PS/2 and the 6 years of PCjr "using" before that.  I cannot
give the system up until my Gateway arrives, as it still works for the most
part.  I ask that interested parties call me at (512)495-2516 or e-mail to
coleman@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu.  If the phone is busy, I'm probably using the
modem, so please be patient.

	Michael A. Coleman

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
From: singer@uwovax.uwo.ca
Subject: What's Special about PS/2?
Organization: University of Western Ont, London
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 14:48:36 GMT

I have jt noticed the IBM PS/2 group at a time when I am considering buying g a
new system to replace my NEC 286 (mono). And I wonder, Why IBM PS/2 (or for
that matter, PS/1). Does this line have anything beyond what is available from
clones or quasi-clones such as NEC, Compaq, et al? For example, I can get
something called the SLC SX (SXLC?) with 8 megs of ram for a reasonable price,
only a few hundred more than clones; but why? I am not a number-cruncher or
hacker, using my computer ONLY for textwork, some database stuff. I look
forward to reasons for the enthusiasm of this group's members.-- 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.ps2