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From: coulman@cs.Usask.CA (Randy Coulman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Turbo Button on GW2000 (was Re: Gateway Unresponsive)
Date: 21 Jan 1993 17:57:53 GMT
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
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In article <2424@ks25.chi.il.us>, dougw@ks25.chi.il.us (Doug Waldron) writes:
>
> [...stuff deleted...]
>
>I can't get the Turbo button to slow down the machine, but I doubt I'll
>ever have a need to this.
>

This is covered in the user's guide.  If you look at the second page of 
the BIOS setup screen (CTRL-ALT-ESC from the initial BIOS screen during
boot up), there is a setting for CPU speed.  When this is set to FAST,
the TURBO button is disabled.  If you need to slow down the machine for
some application, you should change this setting in the BIOS.  You can 
then control the speed of the machine using the TURBO button.

>
>[...more stuff deleted...]
>

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                                |       University of Saskatchewan
coulman@cs.Usask.ca             |       Saskatoon, SK   S7N 0W0             
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.archives.msdos.d
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:28:14 -0500 
From: Vijay_Anand@transarc.com
Subject: Re: Switching A: and B: floppy drives on GW2000


I wrote:
>   I was trying to boot Linux yesterday on my Gateway 2000 486-33 using
>my 3.5in drive which is configured as the B drive. I tried two things
>1. Use the boot_b.exe shareware program that allows you to boot from B:
>2. Switch the 4pin cables of the A and B floppy drives

Thanks to everybody who responded. I swapped the power cable, I should
have swapped the ribbon cable. Pretty stupid of me.

Vijay
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From: johnwu@netcom.com (John M. Wu)
Subject: Re: More questions for omniscient netters
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 03:00:03 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.172305.1@ulkyvx.louisville.edu> jsmcgi01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu writes:
>I posted above about the possible systems that I am going to purchase and I
>left out a few important questions.
>Addendum:
>1.)  Is having 8 megs of RAM that important??  I plan on running windows
>software and some DOS stuff.  All the machines I have looked at come with 4
>megs.

Depends.  For DOS stuff, pretty much no.  For Windoze, possibly.
Check the memory requirements for your software and guess how much you'll 
need.  Note:  You can "get away" with not having enough memory by using
virtual memory but it will he hella slow.  IMHO, tolerable amount of
Windoze memory is 4 megs but 8 megs is more desirable.

>2.)  Is a 170 meg HD large enough for a machine today?  Originally the machines
>I was looking at came with 130 Meg HDs, but I heard that the average windows
>prog is 8 meg so I upgraded a bit.

200+ meg drives are getting cheap now.  If you can, go for those instead if
you feel that 130 meg is insufficient.  
-- 
John M. Wu                "And if a double decker bus, crashes into us
johnwu@netcom.com          to die by your side, is such a heavenly way to die"
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From: pastor@prc.unisys.com (Jon Pastor)
Subject: Re: Gateway Unresponsive
Organization: not much...
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:50:40 GMT

In article <1993Jan20.203035.17472@src4src.linet.org>, scottw@src4src.linet.org (Scott Weintraub) writes:
|> People aren't whining.  I've heard horror stories in this newsgroup about
|> people who waited 11 weeks for their system!  We're not talking about supply
|> and demand, we're talking about competition and there are clone makers out
|> there who plan way ahead and make sure that they have enough of their
|> product to last them for the next few weeks.  They demand certain things
|> from their suppliers and make sure they can get the hardware they need
|> immediately.  If they can't do it, somebody else will!  Zeos promises
|> 1 week delivery and as far as I know, they make that deadline.  They're not
|> running out of motherboards.  They're not running out of 256k caches.  
|> They're not running out of video cards, monitors, cases, RAM, and software
|> packages.  

They're probably didn't do $1.2 billion in business in 1992, either...  I just
talked to my sales rep, and he mentioned that GW2000 broke the Gigabuck
barrier last year.

|> Gateway should be suited to fit that demand.  Either that, or
|> they're not qualified to lead the clone market.  

There is no way to fit demand that grows exponentially.  *IF* Gateway had
anticipated that they'd be delivering 3500 systems a day, they'd have geared
up in advance; the burst of orders generated by a combination of Christmas,
several simultaneous "Best of 1992" reviews, and rock-bottom prices apparently
took them completely by surprise.  Sorry if I sound like a GW2000 apologist,
but the reality is that you can't have rock-bottom prices for good hardware if
you order based on your most optimistic projections, because if you're wrong
you end up sitting on millions of dollars of inventory, and that eats into
your margins.  I'm sure that Gateway tries to match their own component orders
as closely to a conservative demand projection as possible, and prefers to err
on the low side -- assuming, usually correctly, that someone who's shopping
price will be willing to tolerate a delay.  I'll bet that if you plotted
orders vs. deviation from promised time, it would have a very short tail to
the left, and a very long tail to the right, with the mean right around the
long side of the promised range and a reasonably low standard deviation.  
The horror stories about 11 week delays are probably 5 standard deviations
out. 

|> I am eagerly awaiting my 66V and if it doesn't come in three weeks (it's been
|> 16 days now), I'm going to be angry.  I have every right to be.

Sure you do.  You also have the right to cancel your order if it takes too
long.  I considered this option, but realized that my face would look kind of
silly with no nose...



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From: Feng.Qian@launchpad.unc.edu (Feng Qian)
Subject: Re: CMS Jumbo tapes - Does it really matter which brand?
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 04:23:56 GMT


I got (actually, my brother has) some extra 3M DC2120 tapes for $15/each
plus shipping and COD. We have 16. 
They are QIC-80 formatted (XIMAT Format) by 3M, all factory sealed, NEW.
3M claims that this is particularly suitable for CMS Jumbo 250.

If interested, let me know.

Feng
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: pvr@wang.com ()
Subject: Re: Symphony chipset problems?
Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:29:22 GMT

h9117228@hkuxa.hku.hk (Li) writes:

>In article <C12GIy.nB@wang.com> pvr@wang.com () writes:
>>epcodjs@houston.unocal.com (Doug Seyler) writes:
>>
>>
>>>OK--now that I've gone and bought a no-name 486DX-33 motherboard with a Symphony
>>>chipset, does anyone have any comments, good or bad, about this chipset? 
>>
>>   I wrote a program that reads the internal registers and interprets
>>the meaning if the bits.   I also wrote a program that allows you
>>to set the registers.
>>
>Does it work on the Symphony Chipset only, or on other chipsets too?
>I'd like to see the program too...

   No, it is quite specific to the Symphony chipset.   Other
people should write similar utilities for their chipsets.
You need the chipset spec to do it however.

   I have has enough requests for my Symphony utiltiy that I
will post it.
   
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                     Well, that about says it.
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From: dhill@octel.com (David C. Hill)
Subject: 200mb IDE drives (opinions?)
Organization: Octel Communications Inc., Milpitas Ca.
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:40:47 GMT


	I am putting together a 486 system and have a choice of
	~200mb IDE disk drives to choose from. 

	Conner 200 MB
	Maxtor 213 MB
	Western Digital 212 MB

	From the vast experince of the net is there one of these
	which stands out as an obvious choice?

	If not, what differences are there between them? (i.e. noise
	level, MTBF, etc.) 

	Thanks

						Dave
From: scst74@csc.liv.ac.uk (Mr. D.W.F. Liu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: UNIX for the PC?
Date: 21 Jan 93 16:53:34 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, Liverpool University

Hi,
	Okay before I even start, NO FLAMES PLEASE, especially MS Windows fans,
I'm a total XWindows fan and love it's multi-tasking and dislike MS Windows.  It's just a matter of opinion as I'm sure there are tons of people who look at it from the opposite view.
	Now that little disclaimer is over could someone tell me if there is a pd UNIX version and XWindows as well.  I've heard that it's about 1000 pounds (here in the UK) for just setting UNIX up on one computer which seems really excessive.  Heard of Linux but don't know how good it is compared to the UNIX and XWindows(X11) version we've got here at university.  If there isn't a pd version, does anyone know what the cheapest UNIX system is, doesn't matter if it's from the US because I think mail order compani


es import direct from the states.  It must also run XWindows and be able to run MS Windows programs (I dislike it but it does have some good software).

				Thanks in advance.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+                        From The Dude called Denby.                       +
+          In an infinite universe there are infinite possibilities        +
+                 scst74@uk.ac.liverpool.compsci is just one.              +
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: Mark Ray <ray@mcnc.org>
Subject: Price for a used Toshiba T1200XE
X-Xxdate: Sun, 24 Jan 93 16: 43:14 GMT
Organization: MCNC Center for Microelectronics
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d13
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 21:39:18 GMT


Can anyone give me an idea of the used price for a Toshiba T1200XE laptop?
Any configuration is fine, I just want to get an idea.

Cheers
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Walk)
Subject: HELP!!! (fixing partition damage)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:23:13 GMT

I've got one partition on one of my drives that used to be a logical
dos partion, but now it got hit so that it's an external dos (EXT DOS)
partion.  Fdisk doesn't recognize it as a dos partion anymore
while fdisk on linux says everything is all right (no, linux didn't
cause the problem, the OS/2 install from cdrom did while trying to
install the HPFS).  This is on the partition AFTER the one in which
I was installing the HPFS, and should have been alright.


					Todd Walk
					walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: faruque@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Abdullah Faruque)
Subject: Need info on ESDI type hard drive
Organization: Clarkson University
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:53:33 GMT

I want to install a 114meg ESDI type drive, that came out of an IBM-RT
PC (model 6151), in a 286 based IBM-AT compatible machine. The label
on the hard drive says, E114, type 0669. I do not know who is the
actual manufacturer, but it says "manufactured for IBM". The only
thing I know from the manual that, it is a 114meg ESDI type drive. Now
as far as I know, the drives are normally machine independent and with
appropriate controller card, one should be able to use it in another
platform. I know, I have to buy an ESDI controller card for AT, but is
there any special type that I need. The controller card in the RT is
an Enhanched ESDI type controller and I think it will not work if I
just put it in AT machine (am I right!). So, before spending money on
a new controller card, I want to make sure that this hard drive can be
used in AT type machine (unless IBM did some special modification
inside the drive elctronics, who knows!). I also need the no. of cyl,
head, sec etc., to do a low level format if it is possible to use the
drive in AT type machine with an appropriate controller card. Thanks
in advance for any sort of help that will make this drive working in
an AT type machine.

-Faruque               
email: faruque@sun.soe.clarkson.edu
From: mqd1@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (MAURICE Q. DADOUN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: WHAT DO YOU THINK OF COMPAQ'S PROLINEA SERIES
Date: 21 Jan 93 16:53:23 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

Hi,
I would like to have some informations about Compaq's Prolinea serie.
I know that the Prolinea is the bottom of the line from Compaq, but I am
willing to buy an international brand (I am living in the US but I will
soon go back to my country where Compaq is very well known whereas
great clone maker like Gateway or Zeos are still inexistant)
and I have a limited budget.
I know also that the Prolineas don't have any external cache, is it a
big drawback if I want to run common softwares: Windows (with Word, Excel,
Qpro, Power Point...) and some other Dos applications (Fortran, Matlab..).
I am interested in the following configuration:
486 DX33
240 MB Hard Drive
8 MB Ram.

Thanks for your comments, Maurice.
-- 

Vous savez pourquoi on m?
?......
Pour qu'ils n'explosent pas quand on les enc....
From: davem@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Dave McCrady)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: ESDI hard drive
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 23:50:45 MST
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #8, Edmonton, AB, Canada

lilley@epcot.spdc.ti.com (Shannon Lilley) writes:

- I have just acquired a full height hard drive that according to my book uses
- the ESDI/st506 interface. My question is can it be low level formatted with a
- MFM controller,with expected loss of capacity,without causing problems? I kno
- you can do this with RLL drives. Thanks.
- 
- Shannon Lilley
- lilley@spdc.ti.com
- 

   No.  The cabling for the drive is the same as the mfm/rll variety but the
similarity ends there.  It will not work with anything but an ESDI controller.

--
Dave McCrady              davem@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: V25 chip (by nec)
From: elejw@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (James Williams)
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:30:56 GMT
Organization: University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Keywords: v25 sbc dma

I am working on aproject using the V25 cpu, made by NEC. The v25 is 80186
compatible, with serial ports, dma, etc, all on chip. The project uses a single
 board computer (sbc) made by a firm called jenlogix, here in New Zealand.
The sbc is also called the V25. Anyway, I am having trouble using the Special
Function registers (SFR's), specifically those that control the dma. You are
supposed to be able to read/write to/from them just like memory. I can read them,
but not write to them. Anyway, has anyone here used the V25 (the chip, I
doubt if anyone has used jenlogix's sbc!). I can elaborate further if anyone
thinks they have any suggestions.
Thanks
JW
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: *TWO ITEMS* 16 bit VGA/RLL *AND* RLL/IDE compatibility
From: EXTDSM@LURE.LATROBE.EDU.AU (MADDISON,David)
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:38:37 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24

I have a query on two compatibility problems:

1) I can't run my VGA card in 16 bit mode in the presence of a Western Digital
1006-SR2 HD controller (don't know about other RLL controllers) although it
will run in 8 bit mode. Are these two peripherals fundamentally incompatible or
is there a fix to this problem?

2) I am running 2 RLL hard disks off the above mentioned controller and would
like to add an additional IDE or other type of hard disk without trashing my
existing drives. The 1006-SR2 manual says that the controller will coexist with
an IDE with one of the controllers set at the secondary address (not sure which
one). I realise that it should be possible to run two controllers in a system,
one at the primary and one at the secondary, but this does not always work in
practice. Does anybody have any experience with my proposed setup?
                           
David Maddison
Melbourne, AUSTRALIA

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From: ipadavic@garnet.acns.fsu.edu (Irene Padavic)
Subject: JUMBO 303 problem
Organization: Florida State University
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 13:28:01 GMT

Randy Earnest c/o ipadavic@garnet.acns.fsu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: cs011177@cs.brown.edu (Kwun Han)
Subject: Re: Pro Audio Spectrum Prices.
Organization: Brown Computer Science Dept.
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:27:50 GMT

In article <Steve_Mech.04g0@bearsden.UUCP>, Steve_Mech@bearsden.UUCP (Steve Mech) writes:
|> The Damark Catalog is selling the Pro Audio Spectrum for only $129!  They
|> offer free shipping and handling.  The Damark number is 1-800-729-9000.
|>  This is by far the cheapest price I've seen.  
|> 
|> Well, I've made the big decision too.  I'm one of the 3000 a day Gateway
|> buyers.  I ordered a straight out of the box 66 VL-Bus systems with the
|> Telepath 14.4k Modems.  They Say 3 weeks like I expected.  Let's just just
|> hope they do.  I'm realistic and am expecting 4 weeks.
|> TeleBuyers
|> 
|> -- Via DLG Pro v0.995
You will be lucky to get it in 3 weeks, my roomate waited for 5 weeks and still haven't got it
yet. :)

Kwun Han.
cs011177@cs.brown.edu
From: joseph@ursula.ee.pdx.edu (Joseph Eric Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: WDXT-GEN2 PLUS HardDrive Controller
Date: 23 Jan 93 22:08:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: walt.1jsfk5INN1qt
Organization: Portland State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: ursula.ee.pdx.edu

Does anyone know the proper way to set the jumpers on
this harddrive controller.  I do not have any manuals
for it and would like to use it.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
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From: frigo@psl.wisc.edu (Sean P. Frigo UW-Madison SRC (608)877-2332,-2001(FAX))
Subject: ?: Laptop Battery Life Extended?
Reply-To: frigo@psl.wisc.edu
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Physical Science Lab
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 19:05:15 GMT

I am considering getting a laptop for long overseas flights.  If I recall,
battery life is at best 4 hours.  I will be doing simple text entry, so
I could boot DOS from a floppy and use the DOS editor or equivalent.  This
would allow me to disconnect the HDD, which must be a drain on the battery.

So, netters, what percent gain should on expect from this schenanigan?  I
realize that the CPU, and cooling fan, etc. will still be a drain, but would
I get and extra hour or 2 of battery life?

Inquiring minds wish to know...


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From: engelhardt@edinboro.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: S3 card from NDI - any experience?
Date: 21 Jan 93 21:41:39 GMT
Organization: Edinboro University of PA


	In a 486/33 system we recently purchased from Tristar, an 
S3-based VGA card by NDI (National Design, Inc. of Austin, Texas) 
was included.  It is an NDI AT600-series card.  We haven't put it 
through all of its paces yet, but we see no problems with it so far.  
We are planning to purchase a large number of PCs soon, however, and 
we don't want to be stuck with an off-brand card for which we won't be 
able to get drivers in the future (NDI has a BBS, but my concern is 
that they won't be around in six months).  Has anyone ever heard of 
NDI?  Anyone had good or bad experiences with their products, or care 
to comment on them as a company?  Please send responses via e-mail to 
me at ENGELHARDT@EDINBORO.EDU.  Also, if anyone is interested in a 
summary of the responses I receive, please send me e-mail; if interest 
is great enough, I'll post a summary, and if not, I'll e-mail the 
summary to those who are interested.  Thanks!

--------------------------------------------------------------------
Rick Engelhardt, Edinboro University of PA (ENGELHARDT@EDINBORO.EDU)

"One thing music and politics have in common is that both are far
 too important to leave to professionals"      - Michelle Shocked
From: tpesce@zeus.calpoly.edu (Tim Pesce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Touch screen monitors (info wanted)
Date: 27 Jan 93 03:55:38 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Computer Science Department: Cal Poly, SLO

I'm working on a software project that will require the use of a
touch-screen monitor.  I'm currently working with the IBM 8516, but
would like to know what alternatives are available.

Specifically, I'm looking for alternatives that will work on non-IBM
machines.  ( my understanding is that the 8516 is compatable with IBM
PS/2 machines only due to the PS/2 mouse port interface. )

Any help or info would be greatly appreciated!

Please respond via e-mail.

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From: tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu (Tad Perry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Gateway Unresponsive
Date: 21 Jan 1993 09:06:45 GMT
Organization: unaffiliated
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: gibdo.engr.washington.edu

In article <1993Jan20.203035.17472@src4src.linet.org> scottw@src4src.linet.org (Scott Weintraub) writes:
>People aren't whining.  I've heard horror stories in this newsgroup about
>people who waited 11 weeks for their system!  We're not talking about supply
>and demand, we're talking about competition and there are clone makers out
>there who plan way ahead and make sure that they have enough of their
>product to last them for the next few weeks.  They demand certain things
>from their suppliers and make sure they can get the hardware they need
>immediately.  If they can't do it, somebody else will!  Zeos promises
>1 week delivery and as far as I know, they make that deadline.  They're not
>running out of motherboards.  They're not running out of 256k caches.  
>They're not running out of video cards, monitors, cases, RAM, and software
>packages.

In October everyone was complaining about Occidental being late (in
fact these stories were the worst I've ever heard. Did *anyone* ever
get one?)  And their related to Zeos. In November the complaints moved
to being about Zeos directly. In December/January Gateway is it. So
you're wrong: it does happen to Zeos.

>Gateway should be suited to fit that demand.  Either that, or
>they're not qualified to lead the clone market.

Sure.

>I am eagerly awaiting my 66V and if it doesn't come in three weeks
>(it's been 16 days now), I'm going to be angry.  I have every right to
>be.

Of course you do.


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