HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: bell@ufp.enet.dec.com ()
Subject: Re: PC, Redneck President, and other bad news. (was Re: Amiga 1200)
Reply-To: bell@ufp.enet.dec.com ()
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 15:28:23 GMT



Ok, I guess something lucid must be introduced here, because I am so
sick of the political crap flying around the net.

Anybody see Sneakers?  You introduce an idea to someone, if he/she
believes it, it happens whether or not it is correct.

In other words, we are going to see a change in the economy because Bill
Clinton got elected.  We would have seen a change in the economy if
Perot was elected.  Why?  Because the people have associated the bad
times and economy with George Bush.  Maybe this is not reality, but
because the majority (obviously) believe it THAT BECOMES REALITY.  The
economy is defined mostly by what people believe.  So Clinton is in
office.  The people wanted a CHANGE.  Whether or not Clinton is a good
president, the economy will improve BECAUSE THE PEOPLE BELIEVE IT WILL. 
That's all.  It's really rather simple.

It's like sports.  You've been having a bad season, and also your fans
haven't been coming to as many games (less turnout).  So the team gets
depressed, and starts screwing up their playing to the point that less
fans come.  They get more depressed.  They're still the same team, even
when all of a sudden the stadium is packed and the fans are going wild. 
Since the fans are there, they must be great!  So they win the game. 
Why?  Because they believed they could.

Never underestimate the power of freewill.

Anyway, enough of my non-politically-correct leftwing idealistic puke,
on with the regularly scheduled c.s.a.hardware...

Mike
Disclaimer:
From: DennyA@cup.portal.com (Denny Lee Atkin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Amiga 1200
Date: Sat,  7 Nov 92 22:01:01 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

>How about Commodore calling some more chips by -male- or sex-neutral names,
>or better still, leave out the anthropomorphisms........
>
>
>-- Via DLG Pro v0.992
>

Paula,

The names are fun, and part of what makes the Amiga fun. Let the
others have their numbers. We've got personality.

There are male chips in there... I've only known one woman named Gary,
and none named "Buster" or "Ramsey." ;-)

 (It's just a good thing they got that Kiki chip out of the final
  design... It help causing poor Gary and Buster to melt. :)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: adap@edmund.cs.andrews.edu (Edsel Adap)
Subject: Re: AGA monitors.
Organization: Andrews University
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 17:03:49 GMT

In article <Bx6r8q.FBz@cck.coventry.ac.uk> csg019@cck.coventry.ac.uk (-~=Zaphod=~-) writes:
>If i bought and A1200, what monitor would i require to take advantage of the
>new display modes? Could i use an SVGA monitor? Or would i have to bug one of
>those really expensive multisync ones?
>
>Thanks
>
>   Steve.
>
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You need one of those Multisync monitors to take advantage of the new
AGA modes.  However, not just any multisync. From what I've read, you
need one that does 15Khz - 72 Khz monitors.  My suggestion is the C=
1960 Monitor.  You're going to have a hard time finding a third party
monitor that supports those scanning rates.

Edsel
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If it stinks, it's chemistry
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From: sobi0268@mary.cs.fredonia.edu (Kevin V. Sobilo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: GENLOCK-1300 CABLE????
Date: 9 Nov 92 18:07:05 GMT
Organization: Math / CS, State Univ. of N. Y. College at Fredonia
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

A friend of mine has a genlock that was built for the Amiga 1000...
I think it was the genlock-1300...
He needs an extension cable to hook it to his Amiga 20000, he
tried to make his own... It worked but it slipped out once and fried
two chips in his Amiga....
He is looking for a premade cable or someone who can make a cable
that won't fall out and fry anything.... For this cable he
had to cut off 2 pins on the male and female ends...


Thanx for all your help......





					Kevin V. Sobilo
				sobi0268@mary.cs.fredonia.edu
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From: dac@prolix.apana.org.au (Andrew Clayton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: 2.04 "System expansion board check"???
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 12:50:51 GMT
Organization: More like Dis~, really.
X-Newsreader: Arn V1.00 beta rel2

In article <1992Nov10.002848.23160@rtsg.mot.com>, Brent R. Earl writes:

> down for 5 minutes.  When I started up I got a red screen with the
> title:
> 
>  "System Expansion Board Check"
> 
>   ok  1010 158
>   ok  1010 3
>   bad 1010 4
>   ok  513  1
> 
>   continue
> 
> Any suggestions/explanations?

I had something like this happen to me with my A3001 GVP
Accellerator board.

Turns out that one of my makeshift cables was shorting out a
board, and the computer was getting in a tizz.

I had to take all of the boards out to find this problem. When I
cleaned the motherboard free of all its accumulated dust, it
performed a lot better [and hasn't inexplicably crashed since].

It certainly is scarey to get the expansion board check.

The easiest way to check the board, is to power down and remove a
board, then power up again, and see if the problem remains.
Repeat until you find the culprit, then check it out.

When you find the dodgy board, try plugging it into a different
expansion slot, and also try pressing down on all of the socketed
chips on that board - one or more of them may be loose.


Dac
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: crash@ckctpa.UUCP (Frank "Crash" Edwards)
Subject: Re: Tape Backups, Quarterback
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 02:58:20 GMT
Reply-To: crash%ckctpa@tct.com (Frank "Crash" Edwards)
Organization: Edwards & Edwards Consulting
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.hardware

I added a Follow-up line.  Change it if the thread swerves...

tribble@gphs.vuw.ac.nz (John Matthews) writes:
>I can write to the drive with BTNTape2.1, as long as I write only 1
>block at a time. The drive has an internal 32K buffer, but this still
>results in very slow backups (as the tape must rewind a bit every 32K)
>and the only software that currently uses BTNTape2.1 is TAR. No
>commercial software seems to allow for the writing of 1 block at a time,
>or deals with this drive specifically. 

I use the Viper with my system all the time.  The only time I had a
symptom similar to yours was when the drive was missing the middle
jumper block -- it controls the disconnect size, ie. how much data
will get passed back and forth before the drive disconnects from the
SCSI bus so that another device can use it.  This problem was when I
was using the -005 revision of the firmware.  I have since received
-011 from Maynard Electronics, but I have not had cause to remove the
jumper blocks that I installed!  Try it, maybe it'll help...

[Please hit <RETURN> at the end of each line, or tell your editor to do
it for you.]

>John Matthews,
>  tribble@gphs.vuw.ac.nz

-- 
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Fax:  813/786-6526               [Our office is moving; watch this space
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From: fheitkamp@desire.wright.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A4000 and CDrom (aka IDE blows) (was Re: IDE : Possible
Date: 13 Nov 92 07:48:11 EST
Organization:  Wright State University 

In article <69348@cup.portal.com>, joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan) writes:
>>In article <69293@cup.portal.com> joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan) wri
> Actually I'd have 5 drives, one in the 4000 and four still in my 2500.  No,
> sorry, this may be what YOU want, but not what I NEED.  I would need at
> least three of my current SCSI peripherals in the 4000, not just one or two
> IDE drives.
> 
	How did you get 5 drives in the 2500??.  Inquiring minds want to
	know!!

>>Adam Benjamin
>>A.Benjamin@mi04.zds.com
>>
> 
> Why did I even bother responding to your rediculous blather?  Oh well....
> back to real work.
> 
> -Joel
> -------
>    ========================================================================
>   / Joel E. Swan....Pres./...Media Specialties, Ltd., Oak Forest, IL.USA  /
>  / & Senior Producer..../...Moody Broadcasting Network, Chicago, IL. USA /
> / Portal ID: joeles..../...joeles@cup.portal.com                        /
> ========================================================================
-Fred
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: easton@zds-oem.zds.com (Jeff Easton)
Subject: Re: HELP : HD SCSI or IDE and the A1200
Organization: Zenith Data Systems, OEM Systems Engineering
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 17:31:35 GMT

In article <mckillnm.721308804@unix2.tcd.ie> mckillnm@unix2.tcd.ie (Marky Mark) writes:
>
>Hi there netter's,
>		  I have just got my self an A1200.  A quick machine 

[...]

>		  The questions I have put here may seem very simple but
>as I have not got the FULL set of manuals with the computer I have no 
>circuit digm to go with !  So a full set of pin-outs for the 40 way IDE
>connector in the computer and the pin-outs on the drives would be a big
>help to solving this problem.

  Okay, here's the pinouts of a Conner CP 3044, 40 Mb 3.5" IDE;

01  Host Reset		02  Gnd
03  Host Data 7		04  Host Data 8
05  Host Data 6		06  Host Data 9
07  Host Data 5		08  Host Data 10
09  Host Data 4		10  Host Data 11
11  Host Data 3		12  Host Data 12
13  Host Data 2		14  Host Data 13
15  Host Data 1		16  Host Data 14
17  Host Data 0		18  Host Data 15
19  Gnd			20  Key (no pin for keyed connectors)
21  RSVD		22  Gnd
23  Host IOW		24  Gnd
25  Host IOR		26  Gnd
27  RSVD		29  Host ALE
29  RSVD		30  Gnd
31  Host IRQ 14		32  Host IO16
33  Host Addr 1		34  Gnd
35  Host Addr 0		36  Host Addr 2
37  Host CS0		38  Host CS1
39  Host Slave/Act	40  Gnd

  Here's the pinout of the Connor CP 2084, 85 Mb 2.5" IDE;

01  Reset		02  Gnd
03  Data 7		04  Data 8
05  Data 6		06  Data 9
07  Data 5		08  Data 10
09  Data 4		10  Data 11
11  Data 3		12  Data 12
13  Data 2		14  Data 13
15  Data 1		16  Data 14
17  Data 0		18  Data 15
19  Gnd			20  Key
21  Reserved		22  Gnd
23  IOW			24  Gnd
25  IOR			26  Gnd
27  IOCHRDY		28  Master/Slave
29  Reserved		30  Gnd
31  IRQ			32  IO16
33  Addr 1		34  PDIAG
35  Addr 0		36  Addr2
37  CS0			38  CS1
39  Active LED		40  Gnd
41  +5V (logic)		42  +5V (Motor)
43  Gnd			44  Reserved

  Your mileage may vary.  Always get the specifications of the specific
drive you are working with from the drive vendor.

>			Mark (mckillnm@unix2.tcd.ie)

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: val@news.ccutah.edu (Val Kartchner)
Subject: A2000 memory (.5/.5 -> 1M/0)
Organization: University of Utah Computer Center
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 00:02:46 GMT

     I have an Amiga2000 with 512KB chip RAM and 512KB of "fast" RAM.  I also
have a few questions:

  1) Is the "fast" RAM truely fast or is it really chip RAM not accessible
     to the chips?

  2) Is it possible to use a 1MB Agnus in the A2000?

  3) If '2' is true, how to I change the motherboard fast RAM into chip RAM.

  4) If '3' and '1' are true, then why didn't Commodore ship it as true chip
     RAM in the first place?
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From: mark@legend.akron.oh.us (Mark E Daniel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: Unexplained read/write error
Date: 5 Nov 92 23:17:07 EDT
Organization: The Legend BBS Public Access (216)825-2747

Today I switched on my monitor to check my mail.  I noticed a requester.
A beautiful message from AmigaDOS.  vp;ume "IVS_Harddisk_0 has a read/write
error".  Not wanting to think my HD has been badly corrupted I clicked
Retry.  The machine went on hapily tossing news (Whatever they call it in
UUCP) without a complaint.  Here is the output of C:Info

                                                                     
Mounted disks:                                                       
Unit      Size    Used    Free Full Errs   Status   Name             
DF0:      No disk present                                            
DH0:       79M  120365   39365  75%   1  Read/Write IVS_Hard_Disk_0  
RAM:        3K       7       0 100%   0  Read/Write RAM DISK         
                                                                     
Volumes available:                                                   
IVS_Hard_Disk_0 [Mounted]                                            
RAM DISK [Mounted]                                                   
5>                                                                   

I'm running OS 1.3.  I have no idea what caused this, and my system seems
to be behaving.  Any suggestions for a cause?  Should I buy a utility to verify
my HD?

mark@legend.akron.oh.us

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: rsc@hao.ucar.edu (Bob Campbell)
Subject: Picking up HAM radio transmissions on A3000
Reply-To: rsc@hao.ucar.edu (Bob Campbell)
Organization: High Altitude Observatory/NCAR, Boulder CO
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 21:37:16 GMT

My father has a HAM radio with a serial port.  He bought it under the presumption
that he had seen a program that allows you to connect HAM Radio via the
serial port, and tune in on the weather satellites.  I vaguely remember seeing
something to that effect a while ago also, but I have yet to find it.
Does anyone know if such a program exists or not, and where I can find it?
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From: koren@fc.hp.com (Steve Koren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: does this device exist?
Date: 6 Nov 92 15:32:40 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Site
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1.3 PL5

Up until 2 weeks ago, I had been using the old (1084??) monitor that had
come with my 1000 in 1985.  Then I upgraded to a 1960 monitor, which,
needless to say, looks _vastly_ better.  (I think it is a 0.28 dot
pitch monitor.  Don't know what the old one was).

So I'm much much happier with this new monitor, but there is just one
feature of my old monitor that I miss.  The old C= monitor had both RGB
and composite video inputs.  The new one lacks composite video inputs.
I liked the video input because then I could use the same monitor as a
TV set by attaching it to my VCR.

Does anyone know of a source for a device which will accept composite
video and put out analog RGB?  I know there are expensive graphics cards
from GVP that do video in a window, but I want something very cheap.
Hopefully < $100.  I also want to buy one, not build one.  I have plans
for such a thing, but A) it depends on a Motorola part which doesn't
seem to be available any more, B) it depends on being able to make or
obtain a custom PCB for it, and C) it would take me longer to make and
debug than I want to spend.  So I'd like to buy one.  Does such a thing
exist, and can I get one for between $50 and $100?  If so, from where?

  - steve
From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Large IDE HD in A1200
Date: 8 Nov 92 22:30:42 GMT
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <bobl.9646@bobsbox.rent.com> bobl@bobsbox.rent.com (Bob Lindabury - SysAdmin) writes:
> In article <36793@cbmvax.commodore.com> grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
> > In article <1992Nov2.121045.26993@ulrik.uio.no> jawil@hpx12.aid.no (Jan Roger Wilkens) writes:
> > >
> > > I have an 130MB Segate half-height 3.5" HD for my A500.
> > > I'm going to sell this machine soon to upgrade into an A1200. Now I'm
> > > wondering if I can keep the HD to use it with the 1200.
> > >
> > > Since my HD is 3.5" is it to big to fit inside the machine?
> >
> > Yep, too big.
> 
> Again, isn't there a 3.5" floppy in there?  Can't it be removed and a
> hard drive put in its place and the floppy moved to external?

Yes, it could be, but that doesn't really sound like a configuration
that would have much mass market appeal and the resultant foot-long
IDE cable would either not work or be an FCC nightmare unless one
were to add yet more chips to the mainboard to provide a buffered IDE
interface.

As mentioned before, the problem of the different pin pitch between the
2.5" IDE connectors and the 3.5" IDE connecors also precludes a simple
ribbon cable solution.

-- 
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but no way officially representing:   uucp:   {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
Commodore, Engineering Department     domain: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com
From: cstaddw@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr A Craig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Can my A4000 be a tower???
Date: 11 Nov 1992 15:08:13 -0000
Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
NNTP-Posting-Host: lily.csv.warwick.ac.uk

In article <1992Nov10.021558.3320@wuecl.wustl.edu> cmd1@wuecl.wustl.edu (Chris Dunphy) writes:

>Would there be any problem putting the 4000 on it's side?
>How long are the keyboard and monitor and mouse cables?  
>
>	Chris Dunphy (cmd1@cec2.wustl.edu)
>

Well Chris, I saw my first A4000 yestarday and can tell you its a great
mechine. Its actually pretty small, only slightly taller than an A3000,
however I can't see any problams with putting it on its side, excpt for
one thing, the mouse ports have been moved onto the left hand side of 
the case, so I guess this side would have to be uppermost.

The keyboard is plugged into the back so this shouldn't be a problam and
both the mouse and keyboard cables are nice and long.

There shouldn't be any running problams with the mechine on its side, 
although it would be a good idea to reformat the harddrives once their in
their new orination, just to be on the safe-side. I did this for my A2000
the first time I rotated it 90 degrees and haven't had any problams since.

Good luck and have fun with your new toy,
					  Alex...

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Alex Craig.                             ///       CSE Student
"MayTheSkyNeverFallOnYourHead!"     \\\///        Warwick Uni.  ENGLAND
             -Cheif Vitelsatistix    \XX/ AMIGA   cstaddw@csv.warwick.ac.uk
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From: GaryW@cup.portal.com (Gary J Wandrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: RE: Picking up Ham radio on 3000
Date: Mon,  9 Nov 92 11:49:09 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

In response to the question posed, the answer is actually easier than
you might think.  First you need a receiver to get the satellite signals.
Then a demodulator (Black Belts AVT and a unit that they recommend -
I can't remmeber the name of the company) will get you all set up.
If you are looking to use an hf radio with the computer controlling it,
that will be a bit more difficult.  You have to make sure that 
your radio has the proper interface (Icom, Kenwood, Yaseau, etc) sell
units for their newer radios, older units will be a problem.  But 
the real problem on the amiga will be finding a program to control
the radio.  There may be some out there but I'm not up on that enough
to give any suggestions.  But getting weather sat pictures, SSTV, and FAX

is absolutely no problem using the AVT unit (sold by AEA) created by
BlackBelt.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: treczoks@rhea.Informatik.Uni-Bonn.DE
Subject: Amiga Networking?
Reply-To: treczoks@rhea.Informatik.Uni-Bonn.DE
Organization: Want to sell one?
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 19:13:41 GMT

Dear Hardware Hackers,
As our Amiga section is loosing ground in our local computer club, we
need some sort of networking capability to connect to our club network.
Is there a way to connect an Amiga 500 to either Arc- or Ethernet?
I've got the SANA-II-drivers on my disk, but all I've seen in the
hardware section are Network boards for the ZORRO-II, and nothing,
except a preliminary schematics for an arcnet connection on the parallel
port, which would connect to an A500.
Software is not THAT much a problem... I think i could make KA9Q work
with the hardware... if there would be hardware ;(

Yours, Christian Treczoks (TRECZOKS@Rhea.Informatik.Uni-Bonn.de)
From: mlelstv@speckled.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Which HD-Controller is better? 2091 or GVP
Date: 10 Nov 92 00:37:38 GMT
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut f"ur Radioastronomie

In <1992Nov7.023723.1340@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> mike@Turing.ORG (Michael Chapman) writes:
>In article <p3kXr*qg0@disaster.hacktic.nl> rico@disaster.hacktic.nl (Rico Jansen) writes:
>>This means the every SCSI device can be subdivided in 8 sub units.
>>You need a LUN-controller for that. If you use this method
>>with *one* SCSI controller you can get 7*8=56 HD's of your system.

>You might get some very interesting signal loss with a cable long
>enough to support such a scenario. :)

Well, there would be still only 8 devices on the cable with a maximum
of 6 meter cable length. You can't have identical IDs (with different
LUNs) in separated boxes on the cable..

Regards,
-- 
Michael van Elst
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Internet: p554mve@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de
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