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From: walver@kielo.uta.fi (Ville V. Walveranta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: COMDEX '93  (QUERY)
Date: 13 Dec 92 10:57:30 GMT
Reply-To: walver@uta.fi (Ville Walveranta)
Organization: University of Tampere, Finland
In-reply-to: fayne@tellabs.com's message of 8 Dec 92 14:26:56 GMT

fayne@tellabs.com (Jeffrey Fayne) writes in comp.os.ms-windows.misc:
> Subject: COMDEX '93  (QUERY)
> Does anyone have any info on next years COMDEX ?
> Specifically I am looking for the date and who to contact for ticket info.
> Any info would be appreciated (where to/not stay, 'extra-curricular'
> activities, misc hints...)

        COMDEX Fall'93 will be arranged in Las Vegas starting on
        November 16th and ending on November 20th. Of course there will
        be COMDEX Spring'93 in Atlanta as well, but I wouldn't bother ;)

        I didn't find the fax number to _The Interface Group_ that
        arranges the fairs. However, you can write to them at

                The Interface Group
                COMDEX Fall'93
                300 First Avenue
                Needham, MA  02194

        It might be a good idea to write to them sometimes in February
        or March so you will receive the 'early-bird' (free)
        registration (for the exhibitions) form during the summer.

        Of course, number of manufacturers also offer free tickets
        should you give them a call during the summer/fall.

        What to do... 'Course there are lots of things to do; it depends
        how long time you're going to spend in Vegas. If you stay there
        the entire week you'll have plenty of time to visit the shows,
        etc. This year I walked through the exhibitions (about 30 miles
        of corridors) in two days (nine hours/day). Had no time for any
        'extra-curricular' activities).

        -- Willy
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: I.B.M. ALL THE WAY!!
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 01:15:11 EDT
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: A big Compliment and comment about Stacker Support
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 21:35:28 GMT

In <BzAB0n.Kq6@news.cso.uiuc.edu> ftw33616@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (.) writes:

>Well, I got an e-mail from a guy at Stac. Electronics saying how to help
>me, and to mail him my phone # if nothing else worked, and he would give me
>a call.  _excellent_ support.

>Surprising that they've never responded to any of the posts here.

Why so?  Perhaps they simply don't see the necessity of getting on and
playing flame wars with every guy who manages to do something to screw
up Stacker?  I've only dealt with their user support line once (to
upgrade to 2.0 -- got the 3.0 upgrade in a store), and I found them to
be very good.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: bonobo@Ingres.COM (David Victor)
Subject: Problem with 3.5" floppy drive (help!)
Reply-To: bonobo@Ingres.COM (David Victor)
Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501
Distribution: na
Date: 17 Dec 92 18:38:12 GMT

I just bought a new 486SX-25 clone system, and I'm pretty happy with it, 
except for one thing: 

I do a "DIR B:" (B: is my 3.5" floppy drive) on disk #1, and get a valid 
file listing.

I take out disk #1 and replace it with disk #2, which is known to have
different files on it (verified on 2 other machines).

I do a "DIR B:" again, and I get the *same* file listing as I had on my
disk #1!

If I reboot the machine and do a "DIR B:" on disk #2, I see the correct
listing of the contents of disk #2 (which again supports my contention
that disk #1 and disk #2 have different files on them).

In other words, my directory listing is the same for every disk I insert
into drive B: forever, until I reboot.  Can anyone tell me what's going
on?  Thanks for any help!!

-David Victor
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: brant@seq.uncwil.edu (AT-Dreamer)
Subject: Re: Stacker ate my hard disk again. : ( help....
Organization: Univ. of North Carolina @ Wilmington
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 14:16:28 GMT

I bought DR-DOS 6.0 and liked it but then decided to move to MS-DOS
5.0 with 4DOS 4.01 and I just copied the DR stacker to MS and It WORKED
GREAT.  So If you have DR-DOS but use MS-DOS you can just move
sstordrv.sys and sstor.exe to your MS-DOS Partition.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc
From: clarion@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Clarion)
Subject: Re: COMDEX '93 (QUERY)
Reply-To: jwbutler@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 12:56:38 GMT

In <WALVER.92Dec13125730@kielo.uta.fi> walver@kielo.uta.fi (Ville V. Walveranta) writes:

>fayne@tellabs.com (Jeffrey Fayne) writes in comp.os.ms-windows.misc:
>> Subject: COMDEX '93  (QUERY)
>> Does anyone have any info on next years COMDEX ?
>> Specifically I am looking for the date and who to contact for ticket info.
>> Any info would be appreciated (where to/not stay, 'extra-curricular'
>> activities, misc hints...)

>        COMDEX Fall'93 will be arranged in Las Vegas starting on
>        November 16th and ending on November 20th. Of course there will
>        be COMDEX Spring'93 in Atlanta as well, but I wouldn't bother ;)

		COMDEX/Spring & Windows World '93 will be held at the
		Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Ga. this coming spring.  
		The same group runs all three shows.  Call them ASAP for
		The Spring Show, or look for free Tix in industry publications.

>        I didn't find the fax number to _The Interface Group_ that
>        arranges the fairs. However, you can write to them at

>                The Interface Group
>                COMDEX Fall'93
>                300 First Avenue
>                Needham, MA  02194


>        -- Willy
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: gary@dragon.dsh.org (Gary D. Duzan)
Subject: 16550 Serial Cards
Organization: Delaware State Hospital
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 17:48:22 GMT

   I need to get a card with a 16550 UART to replace the 16450-compatible
serial ports I have now. I'm running a 386BSD system as a UUCP
mail/news gateway, and between the 9600 baud modem and the Ethernet
card, the poor computer is drowning in interrupts. What popular
and/or cheap cards are available? Thanks.

                                   Gary D. Duzan
                                   Network Administrator
                                   Delaware State Hospital





Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: ftw33616@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (.)
Subject: Re: Stacker ate my hard disk again. :( help....
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 19:03:38 GMT

mechalas@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (John P. Mechalas) writes:

>In article <1992Dec14.150447.4552@fcom.cc.utah.edu> dks8475@u.cc.utah.edu (David Kenneth Slack/Music) writes:
>>
>>Good luck...

Well, guess what.  Every time I'd turn on my computer I'd run a scheck and a
chkdsk, and the 1st would fail, the 2nd would lock up, and I'd reboot.

Then I'd just say, 'oh well', and do other stuff.

But one day, it decided to chkdsk okay.  so I chkdsk /f and it worked, so now
the error is gone.  go figure.
From: spader@statler.cs.mcgill.ca (Yoo-Shin LEE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: double to high density diskette convert??
Date: 11 Dec 92 20:42:53 GMT
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

In article <1992Dec8.145201.61800@cc.usu.edu> slmdj@cc.usu.edu writes:
> In article <wiegand.723248610@lido16>, wiegand@rtsg.mot.com (Robert  
Wiegand) writes:
> > dollbes@ucbeh.san.uc.edu writes:
> > 
> >>Are bhigh density and double density essentially the same? Is it  
really
> >>possible to punch and convert one to the other?
> > 
> > Yes its possible, but no its not a good idea.
> > The disks are not the same.
> > 
> > -- 
> >  
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> > Robert Wiegand - Motorola Inc.
> > motcid!wiegand@uunet.uu.net            uunet!motcid!wiegand
> > Disclamer: I didn't do it - I was somewhere else at the time.
> 
> 
> At our local comp. lab, they had one of those punch machines to convert  
DD to
> HD... Alas, I had a significantly larger failure rate among the punched  
disks
> than the normal DD _or_ HD diskettes.  Punching not recommended, no  
matter what
> the gurus say! :-)
> -- 
> 

I'd also like to know about programs such as FDformat which allow you 
to format for 2 mbs on a hd disk.  Are they safe and reliable?
I have a friend who used to always fdformat(2meg) his disks and use the
double hole punch routine.  His 1.44 meg drive is screwed now and doesn't
copy reliably.  I think it is because of his abuse of the above methods.



anyways i don't do either.

spader@cs.mcgill.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: planius@hpmpi1.desy.de (P. Lanius)
Subject: Re: UNIX's for PC
Organization: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Hamburg, Germany.
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 11:40:25 GMT

Use LINUX! LINUX seems to be a very realiable and good product. 
Some colleagues of mine have now some expirience with LINUX 
and they were very suprised about the good quality. This is
not first hand information though, but nevertheless...

Peter
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: ftw33616@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (.)
Subject: Stacker ate my hard disk again.  :(  help....
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 08:27:31 GMT

Well, I overstate.  but it is making my life annoying.

Okay, fine.  I try running the elysdemo.zip I got on wuarchive.
I decompress the thing, and it starts putting out hidden files, and such.
okay, no problem.  then it locks up my computer when I try to run it, I
believe.

So, I reboot.  hard disk write protected.  I get this every now and then,
thouroughly annoying stuff.  So, I try to correct it.

However, the directy I put the elysdemo in is now getting errors.

Scheck /f C: says, 'erase this directory' and run scheck again.
chkdsk /f C: hits the directory and locks up.
Norton disk doctor tries to fix the directory and fails, saying 'Still cannot
read directory after moving'.

So, I have this bad directory.  sucks to be me.  I think I'm going to 
deinstall stacker ----- it's usually safe and reliable, but the defrag 
procedure takes _forever_, and there are too many shareware programs that
when run, barf all over stacker, forcing me to scheck and junk to fix things
in my hard disk to get stacker to stabilize.

does stacker 3.0 have any of these problems?


			- Frank Wang

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: rohrernl@helix.nih.gov (Nathan Rohrer)
Subject: Re: Problem with 3.5" floppy drive (help!)
Organization: National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 15:42:46 GMT

In article <1992Dec18.081657.817@ualr.edu> showalter@acs.harding.edu writes:

>In article <1992Dec18.022913.19683@zip.eecs.umich.edu>, joy@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Chien-Chung Chen) writes:
>>In article <1992Dec17.183812.7317@pony.Ingres.COM> bonobo@Ingres.COM (David Victor) writes:
>>>I just bought a new 486SX-25 clone system, and I'm pretty happy with it, 
>>>except for one thing: 
>>>
>>>I do a "DIR B:" (B: is my 3.5" floppy drive) on disk #1, and get a valid 
>>>file listing.
>>>
>>>I take out disk #1 and replace it with disk #2, which is known to have
>>>different files on it (verified on 2 other machines).
>>>
>>>I do a "DIR B:" again, and I get the *same* file listing as I had on my
>>>disk #1!
>>>
>>>If I reboot the machine and do a "DIR B:" on disk #2, I see the correct
>>>listing of the contents of disk #2 (which again supports my contention
>>>that disk #1 and disk #2 have different files on them).
>>>
>>>In other words, my directory listing is the same for every disk I insert
>>>into drive B: forever, until I reboot.  Can anyone tell me what's going
>>>on?  Thanks for any help!!
>>>
>>>-David Victor
>>
>David, I've been maintaing the micros here at school for about 3 years and
>I've seen the problem you describe a dozen times or so. So far every single
>one has been fixed by replacing the ribbon cable between the drive and
>controller. I've also been told by TEAC that the "DC" jumper on the drive
>must sometimes be changed....take it off if it's there and vice versa.
>Good luck.

>Phil

Sounds like your drive either doesn't have DC (disk change) or the jumber 
isn't set properly.  This lets the system know that a new disk has been 
inserted.  On your current setup you should be able to do B: enter and then 
do a dir and read the contents of the new disk.  Hope that helps.



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From: malc@equinox.unr.edu (Malcolm Carlock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.wanted,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Lap-Link style PC-to-PC disk copies via ethernet?
Date: 12 Dec 92 22:11:54 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Organization: University of Nevada, Reno  Campus Computing Services

Does anyone know of a way to do Lap-Link style wholesale disk copies
via ethernet, vs. via a (feh) 9600/19200 serial line?

Thanks in advance for any info.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: cwatters@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Coyt D Watters)
Subject: Re: Multitasking (was Re: Msdos 5.0 Vs Drdos 6.0)
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:38:49 GMT


>> In article <724113082.F00003@misgate.gmi.org> Chuck.Johnston@f886.n2000.z12.misgate.gmi.org (Chuck Johnston) writes:
>>>I loaded Windows 3.0 onto my machine--for about one day...  I would
>>>like to be able to operate my comm. software in a real multitasking envi-
>>>ronment, but I'll find something else to make it happen.
>> 

Using DOS 5.0 and Win 3.0:
We run Procomm Plus in a DOS mode window while doing other things - as long as
the system isn't hammering the disk drive.  I've downloaded 300k files in the 
background while running Pagemaker on a 40 page doc (no graphics tho').

Yeah, it ain't real multitasking, but it serves.


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: sknkwrks@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter)
Subject: Re: Msdos 5.0 Vs Drdos 6.0
Organization: Skunk Works Software Co.
Date: 12 Dec 92 05:14:02 GMT

In article <724113082.F00003@misgate.gmi.org> Chuck.Johnston@f886.n2000.z12.misgate.gmi.org (Chuck Johnston) writes:
>I loaded Windows 3.0 onto my machine--for about one day. I *was* really
>pretty, but that about all I could see to recommend it. I guess I would
>like to be able to operate my comm. software in a real multitasking envi-
>ronment, but I'll find something else to make it happen.

Get DESQview--it works great with DR DOS and allows you to
preemptively multitask on just about any system.  I have a 286-12 with
2 megs RAM, and DV allows me to run a BBS in the background while
reading QWK packets, doing file management, or whatever in the
foreground.

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From: bfornshe@s850.mwc.edu (Ben John Fornshell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: PC Ratings, what do they mean?
Date: 11 Dec 1992 19:45:50 -0500
Organization: Mary Washington College, CPSC Dept.
NNTP-Posting-Host: s850.mwc.edu
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

    Does anyone out there have any information on just what all the
ratings systems out there (Winmarcs, Specmarcs, and all those) really
mean.  I see (ussually from the title) the general idea, but I here a
lot of them are unrealistic, for instance I hear the SLC chips are
overated because the test programs are so small that they get to keep
everything in their 1K cache.  I also here that WinMarks is unrealistic
because it doesn't represent what real users use Windows for, but in all
of the rumour floating around I haven't been able to find out what they
aren't representing.
    If anyone could provide information on them, or where to find such
information I would be most apreciative.

					Thanks in advance,

					bfornshe@s850.mwc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: wiegand@rtsg.mot.com (Robert Wiegand)
Subject: Re: OS/2 slower that dos 5.0?
Reply-To: motcid!wiegand@uunet.uu.net
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 16:33:18 GMT

ws523669@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (William Speiser) writes:

>Can any of you pc gurus give me a hand?
>I have an i386dx25 with 8megs.
>I recently tried to install OS/2 and noticed a few minutes into the installation
>that my hard disk started to sound weird. (Buzing intead of clicking? What else
>can I say?) After it was completely installed (taking 4 hours). I noticed that
> my machine was running much, much slower than with
>dos. It took 15+ minutes to boot.

>It was painfully slow the DIR command took longer to acess my hard disk than it
>takes for floppies.

>I set my OPTI chipset to enable A20 fast gate (or whatever) but that didn't
>help.

>I finally decided to reformat my hard disk under dos 5.0 again and it works fine
>now.

>Does anybody know what the problem could be?

I would guess that the problem was with OS/2 not selecting the proper
disk driver for your hard drive. What type of drive and controller are
you using?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: ftw33616@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (.)
Subject: A big Compliment and comment about Stacker Support
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 04:55:33 GMT

Well, I got an e-mail from a guy at Stac. Electronics saying how to help
me, and to mail him my phone # if nothing else worked, and he would give me
a call.  _excellent_ support.

Surprising that they've never responded to any of the posts here.


			- Frank Wang
			  ftw33616@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: ibenko@neumann.uwaterloo.ca (Igor Benko)
Subject: Compu-sys (CIN) ???
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 00:20:58 GMT

I wonder whether  anybody had any good/bad experiences when
dealing with Compu-Sys (CIN). This is what happend to me.

Today I called Compu-Sys (CIN) to obtain some details about the
machines they sell. I wasn't very impressed with them because:
- their advertised 800 number is not in service
- the sales representative was very unfriendly
- he did'n know almost any technical details
- after I realized that the data transfer rate from a hard drive
  (no local bus) is 1 Mb/s and asked him about the local
  bus, he dropped the receiver

I called them because it seemed they were offering solid stuff for
a reasonable price.

If I get enough answer I'll post the resume in the net.

Thanks !

Igor
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