HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: stein@tellabs.com (stein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Can I mix 70ns SIMMS with 80ns SIMMS
Date: 29 Jul 92 17:48:46 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.misc
Organization: Tellabs, Inc.


In article <19088@fritz.filenet.com> darnold@fritz.filenet.com (Dave Arnold) writes:
>I am upgrading to OS/2 2.0, and so I need 8 megabytes of RAM.
>
>My Northgate elagance currently has 4MB of 80 nanosecond RAM (I determined
>this by looking at the chips which have a -8 suffix).  I am having trouble
>finding 80 nanosecond chips.  Can I safely mix 80ns chips with 70ns chips
>for use with OS/2?  I was told that OS/2 is very sesitive to memory.
>
>My System:  Northgate Elegance 386DX/20.
>
>Thank you.
>
>--------
>Dave Arnold - KD6IFY    
>Internet: darnold@filenet.com    UUCP: uunet!felix!darnold
>--- The opinions expressed above are only mine, not FileNet's

This is exactly what I'm going through (see thread "OS/2 has fallen and it can't
get up"). After 2 weeks of calls to IBM and a plethora of reasons for the TRAPs
and IPEs I'm no closer to resolving my problems. I decided to augment my 4MB of
80ns with 8MB of 70ns and am paying the price. Do yourself a favor and avoid speed
and architecture (SIMMs with 9 chips as opposed to 3) mismatches. With this approach
if OS/2 craps out IBM won't be able to feed you their standard bs and may actually
be compelled to examine the robustness of their OS.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: kcc@pt.com (Kevin Chalker)
Subject: Re: Need help identifing some OLD harddrives..
Organization: Performance Technologies, Incorporated
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 19:51:00 GMT

In article <9207242102.AA13474@bottom.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Dena A Cox <dcox@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> writes:
>
>     I need some help identifing some harddrives which were scavanged 
>out of some old Wang word processing stations.  My boss wants to try and 
>use them in a couple of pc.  So far we know that they are MFM, what I 
>need is the number of cylinders, heads etc if possable.
>
>     What I have:
>
>       Quantum Media - FH  model no. Q540
>              { we have 2 of these.}
>       Seagate - FH model no. ST412
>              { 2 of these also.}
>       NEC -  HH model no. D5124
>              
>     I downloaded the listing of HD specs from garbo.  But, these are not
>listed.  Any help would be appreciated.
>
>                        Robert
>                           Douglas
>                              douglas@hydro.mps.ohio-state.edu
>
>P.S.  This is a friends account.  So please reply to the net or the above
>       address.  Thanks.
>


I can't find any info on the Quantum, however the specs on the other two are
as follows:
	Seagate ST412 - 10Mb, 306 Cyl, 4 heads, 307 RWC, 128 WPC, 305 LZ, 17 sec

	NEC D5124 - 10Mb, 309 Cyl, 4 heads, 310 RWC, 310 WPC, 664 LZ, 17 sector

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: R1004@vmcms.csuohio.edu
Subject: Old IBM PC expansion box question
Organization: CSU
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 18:25:02 GMT

 
     In the dim dark dead ages before the XT was around IBM produced
an expansion cabinet so a PC could gain several slots.  I found one
of these little buggers in the basement of the building.  I also
found the cards needed to connect it to the PC.
 
     I was unable to locate the cable to connect the units.
Anyone know where I might be able to find one?
 
Thanks!
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From: thollowe@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Tom Hollowell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: XT Dead in the water
Keywords: hard drive, not recognized
Date: 28 Jul 92 03:07:44 GMT
Organization: Ohio University C.S. Dept, Athens

I don't know if this is the right group or not, but it is my last hope.  
I have a very sick PC, and I don't know what to do for it.  Luckily all I
use it for is comm pacages, modems and stuff, but still, I would like to get it
back in tip top shape. 

Here's the problem, I have a disk drive that is, for some unknown reason, no 
longer recognized by my system.  This is the C: drive, and the system is an
old (1986) Leading Edge Model D (XT compatible).  The hard drive doesn't seem 
to exist as far as the machine is concerned, it just sits there and spins on
its own all day long.  

Any suggestions?

-- 
"My uniform is leather, and my power is my age.
I'm getting it together to break out of this cage"
                  "Flaming Youth", KISS
Tom Hollowell Ohio University, Athens
From: s_tucker@forsyth.wsnc.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: How can I use a surplus PS/2 disk drive
Date: 26 Jul 92 14:55:14 EST
Organization: Forsyth County, Winston-Salem  NC

In article <92206.105555PHR00JG@TECHNION.BITNET>, PHR00JG@TECHNION.BITNET (Jacques J. Goldberg) writes:
> I have a surplus 20 Mb hard disk drive off a PS2/50 (was replaced
> by a larger one).
> Can this drive be used on any XT or AT machine?
> Has anybody any information on the pinout and/or other specs?
> 
> For direct e-mail reply: note two ZEROES in phr00jg@technion.technion.ac.il
-- 

Unless you have another Model 50, well.....you have a nice paper weight!

Big Blue didn;t think of us when they engineered and unless I am mistaken, that
drive will only work in another Model 50....not even another IBM PS/2 machine.

Good Luck.
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From: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
Subject: Re: MAG 15'' - Monitor 
Reply-To: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 21:51:54 GMT


In a previous article, xmic@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Michael Behnke) says:

>hi,
>
>I read the articles about the MAG 15'' Monitor and now i plan to get one. 
>But please, can anybody answer this:
>  what is the correct spec/name for the MAG 15'' ?
>  what kind of tube is build inside (perhaps a sony-trinitron?)?
>  is the monitor compatible to the MPR II - Swedish norm ?
>  what kind of resolution whith what kind of refresh is maximum ?
>
>Please, if You have some answers, post it to this group.
>
>Michael Behnke.
>
>

Mag innovision mx15f 

1280x1024 @ 60 hz max - non interlaced
1024x786 @ 70 hz max - non interlaced
.28 dot pitch true black shadow mask
anti glare etching
digital controls
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: anderson@dseg.ti.com (John Anderson)
Subject: Re: 486/50DX and 486/33DX:  P5 Upgradable?
Reply-To: anderson@dseg.ti.com
Organization: TI-DSEG Spring Creek
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 18:31:58 GMT

In article <RFowler.284@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov> news@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Usenet) writes:
>In article <12@zeos.COM> kgermann@zeos.COM (Ken Germann) writes:
>
>>In article <1992Jul20.125911.10042@scott.skidmore.edu>, pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu (Pierre VonKaenel) writes:
>>> In article <7@zeos.COM> kgermann@zeos.COM (Ken Germann) writes:
>>> >
>>> >But, if you are not in direct need of that kind of computing power. I would
>>> >hold off and buy a 486-33 motherboard. The reason behind this is because
>>> >the DX2-66 will run faster than the DX50. Most 486-33 motherboards have a

And just how expensive will this DX2-66 chip be?
From: bauwens@acs.ucalgary.ca (Luc Bauwens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Phoenix BIOS, Mylex, and OS/2 2.0
Date: 31 Jul 92 03:19:25 GMT
Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta

In article <1992Jul30.204100.25594@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu> frigo@psl.wisc.edu writes:
>I am having a hell of a time getting a DOS program (Current Contents 1.3.3)
>to work.  The program  calls PKUNZIP to decompress files on disk in A:
>(1.44 MB TEAC) but tries to access both drives, then sometimes thinks its
>getting something from A:, then gives an error when trying to get the rest
>of the data set from a 2nd floppy disk.
>
>Also, I sometimes get the error in the Workplace Shell that drive A: can't
>find the sector requested when opening the drive just to view the contents.
>
>I swapped the floppy drive controller board with another but no improvement.
>
>Here's the system configuration:
>
>Mylex MXA-386 system board
>16 MB RAM
>Phoenix v. 1.10.10 BIOS (1989)
>Conner CP3204 HDD
>FDD A: Teac
>FDD B: Teac 1.2 MB
>TD (generic) IDE board / FDD controller
>ATI Graphics Vantage 1 MB
>
>I did get the Mylex v. 6.09 BIOS, but haven't installed it.
>
>(1)	Have you used the Mylex board / Phoenix BIOS successfully with os/2
>	2.0?
>
>(2)	Has anyone used system boards with the Mylex BIOS with any operating
>	system?  Any compatibility problems?

I got a Mylex MJ386 board (386DX-25), with a Phoenix 1.10.10 BIOS,
 (ID: FC0100, dated 01/15/88 according to MSD, but I recall that
the date that appears at boot time is 1989, not 1988.
HD: Maxtor LXT340A, generic IDE connector, A: 1.44 MB, Teac, B: 360k, Teac.
OEM ATI Wonder 1024 with 512k.

Got no problem with OS/2 2.0 nor with drive A.  PKunzip works fine.
Drive B seems to think all floppies I put in are copy-protected.

Luc B
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.os2.misc
From: tedc@ee.ubc.ca (ted chen)
Subject: OS/2 2.0 all loaded up!
Keywords: os/2, ati, ultra, mag
Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 01:01:55 GMT


I've just completed installing OS/2 2.0 on my new computer.

486/33   8 Megs RAM
240 Meg Quantum HD
ATI Graphics Ultra /w 1Meg
Mag MX17 monitor

The installation of OS/2 went off without a hitch, no TRAP's or hangs during
install.  I've had a chance to fool around a bit, and I really like using
this new operating system.

The question I have is optimizing the card/monitor combination


ATI Graphics Ultra:   640 x 480   Max. Refresh  72 Hz
                      800 x 600                 72 Hz
                      1024x 768                 76 Hz

Mag MX17:             640 x 480                  ?
                      800 x 600                 85 Hz
                      1024x 768                 76 Hz

Display is non-interlaced in above modes:

I would like maximum refresh in each of the resolutions, and both the Ultra
and monitor have their own setup routines.  It seems to me that the monitor
can handle pretty well anything the card throws at it.  How do I proceed?

I tried doing the custom monitor configuration in a DOS full screen session
(as it mentions in the FAQ) running the INSTALL for the ATI card off a 
floppy.  How do I coordinate both the monitor and card setups at the same time?
The card install seems to go ok, I center the box and max out the size on
screen for each resolution.  I save it all to EEPROM.  (btw, I forgot
to mention that I pick the highest refresh rate for each res).  I exit the 
install and return to OS/2 but my screen colours are all faded and there's
obviously some problem.  How do I set things up properly?  

Temporarily, I've selected a pre-configured monitor setup (NEC 5D), but
it doesn't optimize things, and I still get some resolution problems.
(at system boot up it's in Standard VGA mode, 640x400 70hz, then when
the OS/2 logo pop's up it goes into 800x600 for some reason, then goes into
1024x768 res at 70Hz refresh)

B
Can anyone assist?


P.S.  BTW, what's the best  OS/2 2.0 gif viewer, and where can I get it?

Please reply to this newsgroup or by email (preferred)

Thanks!


--
Ted Chen   <tedc@ee.ubc.ca>B
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: wbarnes@sura.net (Bill Barnes)
Subject: Getting a new computer - whadda you suggest?
Organization: SURAnet, College Park, MD, USA, NA, Earth, Milky Way
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 22:24:03 GMT

A friend of mine wants to upgrade from his 286-12 to a "real machine"
(i.e. one that can run Ultima 7 8-).  Since it's been 3 years
since I shopped for an IBM compatible, I'm a little behind in the
trends of late, so bear with me.

He wants to salvage as much as possible from his old machine (the
floppy drive, hard drive, VGA monitor and card, basically - the memory
and motherboard is a bust); I know the HD will probably be annoyingly
slow (I think it's 28ms), but other than that, should there be a
problem?  Does anyone know of a place (either mail order or in the
Washington Metropolitan area) that would help us out, like selling a
partial system and/or be willing to do the transferring of old equipment
for us?

Basically, what's the biggest "bang for the buck" out there, in terms
of performance vs. price?  A speed comparison - or referrence to a
comparison in some magazine - would be appreciated; he wants a 486DX-33,
but I'm not positive that would be the best choice.  In particular,
what's the deal with the 486sx and the OverDrive Processor (i.e. what
exactly is it? a glorified math co-processor? does it really up system
performance enough to make it worthwhile? what about the new OverDrive
processors Intel's promising, any word on them?) and the 486D2 (what's
all this about its bus-speed being half the processor's speed? don't
that slow it down?); are these worth considering?  Is there anything I
should watch out for/ask about (y'know, pitfalls, important tech specs,
etc.)?

How big of a deal is EISA vs. ISA; is there any reason not to get EISA,
other than the extra cost?  How hard would it be to upgrade a 386/486
later to either a 486 or the new P5 (assuming there's any real word
on this one); basically what would he have to chuck?  How important
is a hardware disk cache and how big would you suggest it be?  Beyond
what I've asked, any general tips?

As always, thanks a lot in advance for any advice given.
-- 
Bill "Whassamatter?!  Can't you take a joke?!" Barnes   wbarnes@sura.net
Disclaimer:  The author apologizes for any thought-provoking material he may
	     have accidentally included and promises not to do it again.
Datclaimer:  My employers wouldn't WANT to share some of my opinions.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: katuulos@polaris.utu.fi (Kalle T. Tuulos)
Subject: Re: Advice needed on Colorado Tape drive.
Organization: University of Turku, Finland
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 21:29:03 GMT

cjmarsha@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Charles Marshall) writes:
>As for heavy usage:  I've been using a CMS tape drive 5 days a week, at
>least 1 hour a day for the last 11 months without any problems.  It's not
>the fastest system, nor the biggest.  But for the price, it's great.

When I inspected my Colorado tape drive, I had used it for approx. 10 hours:
two 60MB tapes formatted, one full backup, couple of incremental
backups, couple of restores. The read/write-head was quite scratchy so that
the mirror-like surface was away and the next, brass-like-colored layer was
visible. I use 3M 's tapes. The switch used in tape drive is the same type
like used in old joysticks (kalvokytkin in finnish) and the frame is made
of plastic instead of metal. And last, the drive heats very much, so when
I had formatted my 60MB tape, the aluminium (I believe) underplate of the
tape carbridge was so hot it was not pleasure to touch it.
BUT however, I have got no problems using my tape drive.

>Charles
--
Kalle T. Tuulos		katuulos@utu.fi

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: isc30054@nusunix3.nus.sg (CHOO KOH YAW)
Subject: Trident 8800c card need warm up?
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 09:08:07 GMT

Thanx for any help!

kohyaw
"If all else fail, aim lower"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: renek@sci.kun.nl (Rene Klomp)
Subject: Re: fax modems
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 07:15:36 GMT

In <seah.712297313@sfu.ca> seah@fraser.sfu.ca (Simon Seah) writes:

>I was told that only a few fax modems actually work.  I can remember
>which ones work, though. Sorry.
>I do, however, know that Zoltrix DOESN'T.  I got one, trashed about it
>for a few months, and was finally told by a knowledgeable friend that
>it just plain doesn't work as a fax.  As a modem, yes.  Fax, no.

bullshit, I've a Zoltrix fax/modem installed and it works fine both
as a fax and as a modem!!!

Rene.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: amigo@milton.u.washington.edu (The Friend)
Subject: Re: 486 and co-processor
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 23:42:47 GMT

bp112@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Steven C. Lin) writes:

>The 486DX (important, not the SX!) comes with an FPU (Math co.)
>built-in.  However, if you need the extra speed for CAD, etc., some
>(probably most) motherboards come with a Weitek 4167 coproc slot
>where you can plug one in if ya need it.  I don't know if Cyrix
>has a Weitek 4167 compatible out, but I'm sure it would serve the
>same purpose.

	Actually the socket is pin-compatible with both and the BIOS detects
the type and addresses it specifically. So hence the socket can have either
a Intel (or clone) / Weitek coprocessor in it and the BIOS will do rest.

				--> Mike

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: leffler@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Bob Leffler)
Subject: WD BBS # ?
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 01:44:08 GMT


I'm looking for both the Tech Support and BBS numbers for Western
Digital.  Actually, what I need is the jumper settings for a
WD1006-VMM2.

Any help is appreciated......

bob
From: hamish@cloud.pub.uu.oz.au (Hamish Moffatt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Help on upgrade to 16550A UART
Date: 27 Jul 92 09:48:16 GMT

Hello Geoffrey!

Sunday July 19 1992 07:52, Geoffrey Welsh wrote:

 GW> experience, which suggests that an 8250 of recent manufacture is good to
 GW> 57,600 (and a 16450 to 115200) bps.

My XT (@4MHz) has an 8250 and SFC 3.3 (serial file copy) seems to have no
problems transferring files in 20K blocks at 115200bps between that and the
16450 in my XT. Mind you, other programs have problems at any speed greater than
4800. :-(


Regards,
Hamish


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From: chandoni@husc8.UUCP (John-Marc Chandonia, , , )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Optiquest 2000
Date: 22 Jul 92 18:10:38 GMT
Originator: chandoni@husc8.harvard.edu

From article <3478@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>, by wct1+@pitt.edu (William C Tom):
> Does anyone have opinions on the Optiquest 2000   15" monitor?
I have the 2000D, which has flat screen, digital controls (w/ memory)
and is VESA compliant.  I think the regular 2000 doesn't have these
last 2 features.  Overall, I like it.  The picture's a little fuzzy
in the upper left corner (just enough so that individual pixels blend
together in text mode).  Be careful about buying it mail-order; the
first one I got had all kinds of convergence problems, so it cost me
an extra $20 shipping to get a working one.  If you buy locally, you
can at least keep taking it back until it works perfectly!  Brightness
isn't very consistant between modes; 1024X768 and 640X480 are fine, but
800X600 is too dim; these are not saved between modes as the screen
size is.  The contrast and brightness controls are right where you can
get at them, though... no big deal.  There is no degauss button.

> How does it compare with the NEC 4FG or the MAG ?
It's cheaper, with about the same features.  Doesn't have a 1280X1024
mode like the MAG does, though (OK for me since my card doesn't do
that anyway).  There are only 3 or 4 places I found that sell them
without a system.  Aberdeen has toll-free tech support, and had the
cheapest price when I bought, but has been a real pain in the ass
to deal with... they promised to pay shipping both ways in case of
defects, then changed their policy to 1-way.  They also charged my
credit card 1 month before actually shipping, and charge a surcharge
if you use CC's (contrary to a local ad).  So, they may still have
the cheapest price, but be forewarned!  I heard the MAG is going for
$599, which is only slightly more than I paid... check out that deal
(Treasure Chest?) too.

JMC
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Harvard University            | I will not yell fire ...
From: pjm40@duts.ccc.amdahl.com (Paul J Milazzo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: NEC 4FG quality problems?
Date: 23 Jul 92 22:07:28 GMT
Reply-To: pjm40@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Paul J Milazzo)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

A co-worker of mine is on his third NEC 4fg that has problems right out
of the box!  The first one was taken back to the store, the second one
was sent straight from NEC to him and it was worse than the original
monitor (Convergence), and the third is better but not great.  It seems
NEC sent him a refurbished 4FG before it got a chance to be refurbished!
Apparently, he is not alone about NEC's quality with the 4FG...IMHO, it's
a great monitor(if you can find one with out a convergence problem...)
NEC definity needs to improve it's quality control on this product!
From: edmoore@hp-vcd.vcd.hp.com (Ed Moore)
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 19:26:28 GMT
Subject: Re: Text Editor Hardware
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Vancouver, WA, USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware

>Ahem ! I said portable - you cant use an old xt on a train very easily !
>I also said cheap !

You didn't quantify "cheap", but perhaps something like my 6-year old
Toshiba T1100+ (not for sale) would fill the bill.  Used machines of this
class should be widely available, and they can't be worth much.  But IMHO it
does a good job for what it was designed to do.  It has two 720 KB 3.5"
diskette drives, 640 KB RAM and double-scan CGA (640x200) mono screen
without _any_ lighting (back, side or other).  If memory serves me right, a
few months ago Damark was selling an equivalent Panasonic laptop for $395;
it may have had only one drive.  If they're $395 new, they should be less
used.
From: shenyk@memstvx1.memst.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: IDE 1806 cylin. formatting ? help
Date: 21 Jul 92 23:42:44 -0600
Organization: Memphis State University

Just buy a new CP-30174E IDE drive
it's   4 heads,46 sectors. "1806" tracks ===> 170 MB (by the spec.sheet
d/l from Conner BBS)
my system 386-33, 12/24/90 AMI bios.

the problem is : fdisk only found 92 MB ?(dos v5)
and if I use Disk Manager v5 ,I have to partition some of them as
"READ-WRITE" which are non-dos partition--->window won't run because
smartdrive said it's incompatiable partition.

Anyone know what might be done ?
Is it cylinders larger than 1024 ?

=CHEN=