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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: URGENT HELP NEEDED BY 4:00 TODAY!!!!
From: $ennsnr@brandonu.ca (Neil Enns)
Date: 28 Sep 92 12:42:12 CST
Organization: Brandon University

O.K. I have a friend who is ready to purcahse an IBM.

He has found someone who will sell for $500 the following system and software:

A PCII with 1 meg of ram, a 40 meg hard drive (partitioned) a 3 1/2" disk drive,
a 5 1/4" disk drive, a new Fujitsu keyboard, Word, WordPerfect 4.1, DBase III.
There are no manuels with any of the programs.

What my friends need to know is if this is a good deal, or should he look
further. I personally think that he would be wise to look further.

A RESPONSE TO THIS IS URGENT. I HAVE TO LET HIM KNOW BY 4:00 TODAY. PLEASE REPLY
VIA E-MAIL TO $ennsnr@brandonU.ca.

Thank you very much for your help.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,misc.wanted,misc.forsale.computers,misc.forsale,ne.wanted,ne.forsale
From: nhuang@cs.ulowell.edu (Bat Man?)
Subject: WANTED: Co-buyer for 486DX2-50Mhz System
Organization: U. Mass. at Lowell
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 04:03:29 GMT


Hi, I am looking for several (4 or more) co-buyer to get a good deal for 
486DX2-50Mhz Computer, System include..

 1) Intel 486DX2-50 Microprocessor with built-in math coprocessor
 2) AMI BIOS
 3) 256k External Catch
 4) 8MB RAM
 5) 213MB HD with 64k Buffer Catch
 6) 1.2 and 1.44 Floppy Drive
 7) 2 Serial/ 1 Parallel/ 1 Game Port
 8) Enhanced 101 Keyboard
 9) (Local Bus) 32-bit IDE Controller
10) (Local Bus) 32-bit ET-4000 1MB Graphic Card
11) Viewsonic 5E 14" Non-Interlaced .28DPI Monitor
12) SoundBlaster Pro Sound Card
13) Two High Capacility Speaker
14) Full Tower with 250W Power Supply
15) High Resolution Mouse

The price is $2500 including UPS second day delivery ($98), if you don't
want UPS second day delivery, the whole system is $2400 plus shipping, 
they also have TALON CD-ROM, access time 350ms with 64k buffer. it's around
$200-$250, I don't need it, but you can add on.
If you want buy a computer system, please consider this deal and compare
the price, I am going to order it next week sometimes, if I can't get 
enough people to order, I will just simply order it by myself with higher
price.

P.S. The company has 1 year parts and 5 years labor free
                    30 days money back guarantee
                    free 800 number techinical support
                    24 hours bullitin board service

sorry I can't tell the compny's name here, I will let you know if you really
consider to buy one with me, thank you!

								-bill
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: s1159377@giaec.cc.monash.edu.au (T.  FOOEY..  Furnell.)
Subject: Re: URGENT HELP NEEDED BY 4:00 TODAY!!!!
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 04:48:15 GMT

$ennsnr@brandonu.ca (Neil Enns) writes:

>O.K. I have a friend who is ready to purcahse an IBM.

>He has found someone who will sell for $500 the following system and software:

>A PCII with 1 meg of ram, a 40 meg hard drive (partitioned) a 31/2" disk drive,
>a 5 1/4" disk drive, a new Fujitsu keyboard, Word, WordPerfect 4.1, DBase III.
>There are no manuels with any of the programs.

>What my friends need to know is if this is a good deal, or should he look
>further. I personally think that he would be wise to look further.

At the price it sounds reasonable butr first it may pay to take it into
a local computer shop and get them to test it out, I'm presuming it
includes a monitor, if not drop the price by 150-200, but even so with
the software that's provided it still sounds a reasonable buy. If I was
bying it I'd try to talk him down about 100 but if it's a reliable
machine I wouldn't complain.

Hope this has been of some help.
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From: tvilla@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Tim Villa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Expanded or Extended ?
Date: 30 Sep 1992 02:12:32 GMT
Organization: The University of Westrn Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: tartarus.uwa.edu.au

guac@brt.deakin.edu.au writes:

>Hi all,

>I'd like to know what's the difference between expanded memory and extended
>memory ?

>Thanks in advance !

>Cathy

If you have DOS5, the manual tells you about these. Basically, extended
memory is physical memory above 1024K that is fast and relatively easy
to access, and most impotantly stable. If you want to use this memory
you have to include DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS in your CONFIG.SYS file.
Expanded memory is extended memory that has been reserved by a memory
manager such as EMM386 or QEMM and reconfigured for use by certain
applications. Because the manager is always working in the background
and a lot of fancy operations are going on, expanded memory is liable to
fail occasionally and cause your computer to crash. Wing Commander I &
II are programs that only use expanded memory, and on my computer they
crashed sometimes. Extended memory is called XMS or eXtended Memory
Specification, expanded is EMS or Expanded Memory Specification.

Put simply, XMS is physical memory over 1Mb and EMS is "pretend" memory
and I think it is very yucky.

If you want info on how to enable your computer to use it, email me and
I'll be happy to tell you (I'm a real computer nerd)

Tim Villa
tvilla@tartarus.uwa.edu.au


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From: swaliff@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Steve Aliff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: IDE Master/Slave Problems -- Help, please!
Keywords: IDE Help Problems
Date: 4 Oct 92 00:08:21 GMT
Organization: The Great Beyond

Maxtor Tech Support is at 1-800-262-9867; their BBS is at
1-303-678-2222 (2400 baud and below) or 1-303-678-2020 (9600). You
didn't say which Maxtor you have, but if it's a 7213, there are
known problems with it in PCBA levels below 63; symptoms of said
problems are much as you describe. (The PCBA levels are on the top
of all (most?) Maxtor drives.)

Good luck.

In article <1992Oct3.050702.7444@wyvern.twuug.com> mallen@wyvern.twuug.com (Marc Allen) writes:
>I recently acquired a new Maxtor 203 Mb IDE drive.  I've got it tied into my
>system as a slave to a Seagate ST1144A drive.  I'm running on a 486/25
>system, and it has been locking up oodles since I've put in the new drive.
>
>After some investigation, I've noticed that if I remove the second drive
>from my CMOS (but still leave it in the machine) I have no problems.  This
>also works if I switch the Maxtor to be the master and use the Seagate as
>the slave.
>
>Also, if I drop my processor speed to 20 Mhz, I don't seem to have a
>problem.  I tried dropping my bus speed from 8.3 Mhz to 6.25 Mhz, and it did
>work better but not perfectly.
>
>Finally, Win 3.1 used to be able to access my Seagate drive using it's 32
>bit access.  With both drives in, it not longer can.
>
>I'm trying to reach Seagate and Maxtor, but I've been unsuccessful so far.
>Any help you all can offer would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>Marc


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: jre@zeos.com (Jim Erickson)
Subject: Re: Some 386 vs. 486 advice...?
Organization: Zeos International, Ltd
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 18:30:33 GMT

In article <PICASSO.92Sep29212159@bass.bu.edu> picasso@bass.bu.edu (David Ondzes) writes:
>> Once 486DX or DX2 chips become cheaper, you can always 
>> upgrade, and probably for less than the difference in $$$ between an SX and 
>> a DX now.
>
>How is this possible ? Doesn't a SX have a simulated 32 bit bus while the DX
>has a real 32 bit bus ? 
>
>Is it possible to upgrade a 386SX to 386 ?
>
>Thanks
>David

  I missed the original post so I assume it was originally about the 486SX
vs. the 486DX. The 486SX has the same 32bit bus interface as the DX. The
only difference being the availability of the math coprocessor
(disabled/defective/not even there...the debate rages on).
  In the _386_ line of processors the bus interface of the SX is half of the
interface of the DX. This is NOT the case for the 486 line. Note that this
is true for the INTEL chips, the Cyrix 486SLC chip also has a 16bit bus
which is one of the reasons for the current debate as to whether it is a
_true_ 486 - I won't get into that debate but it is covered in
comp.sys.intel.

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From: pascoe@rocky.gte.com (Dave Pascoe)
Subject: Epson LQ-570 and drivers
Organization: GTE/MSED - Needham Heights, MA
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 15:11:11 GMT


I'm thinking about buying an Epson LQ-570 and would like to hear any
opinions other users might have.

Also, will the LQ-500 drivers from WordPerfect work with this printer?
And are there Windows drivers for this printer?

I've been away from dot matrix for a while so any help will be
appreciated. Please e-mail.
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Internet: pascoe@rocky.gte.com
GTE/MSED - Needham Heights, MA
(617) 455-5704
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: zaid@seas.gwu.edu (Z.M.W.)
Subject: IBM XT for sale
Organization: George Washington University
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 15:23:55 GMT

The following system is for sale:


IBM XT 640K 
GNTRE Color Monitor
2 half lenght floppy drives 31/2", 51/4"
10 MEG HD
Internal Modem


	Please, send E-Mail with your offer.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: rjones@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Ronald Jones)
Subject: Cyrix Upgrades for 386s.
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 23:41:02 GMT

According to PC Magazine, Cyrix is about to go after 386 owners who 
would prefer to pay $300 to replace their CPU than buy a new 
system. Their goal is to provide clock doubled 486  performance to
386DXs.  They say it is not clear if Cyrix will sell these through 
direct retail. Send FAXes to Mike Bruzzone at 214 699-9857 for more 
information.
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From: hartung@crl.ucsd.edu (Jeff Hartung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Windows accelerators, Paradise or Diamond???
Date: 28 Sep 92 00:32:53 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <1992Sep27.142855.1@cstp.umkc.edu> lcsim@cstp.umkc.edu (Lin-Chow Sim) writes:
>    Agreed, Diamond TS s*cks big time ...  They keep on failing on their
>promise of a bug-free or at least usable driver for the past god know how many
>months ..  DOS Command will not run in a Window, despite of trying every pif
>config. I can find.  Sometimes Windows crashes because of a GFP at the driver

Maybe this is irrelevant, but since the Orchid Fahrenheit 1280 is also an S3
based card, wouldn't it be possible to use Orchid's drivers with the Diamond
Stealth?  I have had very few problems with Orchid's video drivers.

>program itself ... If I have known their way of doing business, I would have
>shell out a couple of more bugs for a ATI :(
	   ^ ^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^^^

Freudian slip?  :-)


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From: kkt@philabs.philips.com (Kim-Kiat Tan)
Subject: Re: Windows accelerators, Paradise or Diamond???
Organization: Philips Laboratories, Briarcliff, New York
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 14:15:28 GMT

In article <1992Sep27.142855.1@cstp.umkc.edu> lcsim@cstp.umkc.edu (Lin-Chow Sim) writes:
>In article <12160031@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM>, calloway@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Frank Calloway) writes:
>> This isn't related to hardware performance, but in my experience Diamond's
>> technical support has been *terrible*.  I've had my Diamond Stealth card
>
>> I'm pissed.  My advice to anybody considering a Windows accelerator card 
>> is to buy anything but Diamond if you care about support.  I'm currently 

>shell out a couple of more bugs for a ATI :(
>

	Anyone knows of 24 bits true color accelerated graphic card by ATI ?
From: hemal@perseus.Eng.Sun.COM (Hemal C. Mehtalia)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: downloading ftp stuff
Keywords: ftp, msdos, download
Date: 28 Sep 92 23:22:50 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: perseus

>lukas@freya.cs.umass.edu (Christopher Lukas) writes:
>
>
>>      I recently bought a new 386 system, and I'd really like to download some 
>>of the giant amount of software available via anonymous ftp, but I've
>>been having problems.  I only have an old version of pkzip, so I first
>>downloaded a bunch of archive utilities to my unix account, then I 
>>used kermit to download them to my system.  They didn't run at all.
>>I tried it several more times from different ftp servers, but no luck
>>with anything at all.  Does anyone know what is wrong?  The files I tried
>>to download and run were .exe and .com files, but they just froze my system
>>when I ran them.  I checked, and kermit downloads files to and from my system
>>with no errors.  Help!
>
>>Chris Lukas
>>lukas@cs.umass.edu
>

	Amazing. I had the same problem this weekend while trying to
	download *.exe files. I followed the same path that Christopher
	did: downloaded from the ftp archive site to my workstation
	(yes, using binary mode...). Then I used xmodem to download
	it to my PC using Windows standard-issue Binary xfer option.

	One of the files that I downloaded: pkz110eu.exe failed with
	the following message:

	"Cannot execute pkz110eu.exe". 

	The other one simply hung. So please, if someone knows what's
	wrong (and a possible solution) please post it to the newsgroup.

	Thanx.

	/hemal.

	
	


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From: edoggett@river.test.gvsu.edu (Eric Doggett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Amstrad Mouse
Keywords: Mouse, Amstrad
Date: 28 Sep 92 21:28:22 GMT
Organization: Grand Valley State Univ. Computing Society - Grand Rapids/Allendale MI USA

Hi, would anyone out in netland happen to have the pin diagram for the mouse
for the Amstrad Pc-20?  All help will be greatly appreciated.
From: cholette@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Cholette Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Adlib/gold VS Soundblaster Pro.
Date: 28 Sep 92 01:10:33 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal


 I am debating whether to buy an Adlib gold sound card or a Soundblaster Pro.
sound card. I would appreciate some suggestions, which is superior? They
cost about the same amount of money. Whenever I ask a computer dealer, the
suggest I buy the one *THEY* are selling whether it is adlib or SB Pro, so
I am unable to get an unbiased answer.


Thanks in advance to anyone who help's out!
Martin Cholette
cholette@jsp.umontreal.ca
From: larry@dprmpt.UUCP (Larry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Is Compuserve worthwhile?
Keywords: Compuserve
Date: 1 Oct 92 02:11:35 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Data-Prompt

Just got an ad in the mail offering a 1-month trial subscription to 
Compuserve.  I send them $25 and they send me a userid, User's Guide, 
"Compuserve Information Manager" software, etc. After one month, I pay 
$7.95/month.  During the free month I can also use $25 of "optional 
services" at no charge.  If I don't like it, I can return everything and 
get my $25 back (they keep $4 S/H).  Sounds like a decent deal, & the monthly 
ongoing fee of $7.95 is reasonable if the services are good.  However, 
I am skeptical about the value of Compuserve.  

Some time ago, I had a similar free trial from Prodigy.  I realize that it's 
a VideoText system, and a lot of data traverses the line, but it was _very_
slow at 2400 Baud & there was no way to short-cut the system to make it run 
faster.  To make matters worse there was constant advertising being displayed
at the bottom of the screen.  You had to use their software and couldn't print 
anything (with a few exceptions).  You also could NOT import stuff from
Prodigy onto your disk for inclusion in your own applications.

Prodigy was $12.95/month.  I stuck with it for a while because my bank
offered Home Banking (free) if you had Prodigy access), but when the
price of Prodigy & Home banking escalated to over $25/month I gave them
up.  After all, I could use my phone/ATM card to transfer funds, get 
balances, etc. without a computer, at no charge.)

How does Compuserve compare to Prodigy?  Free or not, I'm really not 
interested in wasting my time if it's not any better than Prodigy.  If you
have experience with Compuserve (and especially if you've also used Prodigy)
I would be interested in hearing from you.  I'm specifically interested in:

1. Can you access Compuserve from Windows?
2. Can you import data from Compuserve into applications on your PC?
3. Are you required to use the Compuserve "Information Manager" software or
	can you use something like Crosstalk for windows to access it?
4. Is it SLOOOOOW?
5. Does $7.95/month get you anything worthwhile or are you going to have to
	use extra-cost "Optional Services" to make it worthwhile?
6. What's your general impression?  Any other comments are welcome.

Thanks for your input.
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From: jre@zeos.com (Jim Erickson)
Subject: Re: Data recovery from Windows shutdown?
Organization: Zeos International, Ltd
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 16:57:03 GMT

In article <Bv9nzC.Bz2@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> wai@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Benjamin Wai) writes:
>
>	Is there a way to recover a hard day work from a Windows application 
>	when Windows suddenly decided to jump up with a surprise message, 
>	saying something similar to "General fault at xxx.xxx...Unrecoverable
>	application error. Windows closed application..." or varieties...
>
>	Thanks.
>
>	- Benjamin Wai  < wai@cn.ecn.purdue.edu > < wai@sage.cc.purdue.edu >
>
>P/S:	This happened at least twelve times to me in Windows and in the UNIX,
>	and I still haven't learned the lesson of "Save the data frequently"  
>	(regret once again... sigh...)

   If the dialog box gives you the option to IGNORE, you can choose that and
your application _may_ give you the opportunity to save your data. Of course
it may just crash again. If it doesn't give you this option and instead only
lets you close the application, well you're SOL. Usually it only takes a
person one time losing a hard days work and they learn to save save save. If 
you are a hard case, like a couple of my friends, then try to use
applications that have autosave features. AmiPro has one, and probably WFW
also. That way you can have your app save your work every ten minutes or so
and the only thing you'll notice is the hour glass popping up for a
half-second or so. If you dont use apps that have this feature, but you
don't mind installing some third-party add-ons to Windows, try using
something like WinBatch to write an auto-save batchfile in Windows.

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From: gcl0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (GEORGE C. LIN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Quick Pay and Quicken
Date: 29 Sep 92 03:06:28 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University


I'm thinking about using these 2 packages for payroll and account
payable/receivable for my parents hotel business.  There are about
30 employees.

Any pros and cons?

Thanx.

George
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: huettenb@gmd.de (Anna Huettenbach)
Subject: floppy disk 5 1/4 and 3 1/2
Reply-To: huettenb@gmd.de
Organization: GMD St. Augustin (FRG)
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 10:17:25 GMT


 

Hi,                                                                                   my friend has the follwing problem:                                                   He has the ibm dos version 5.0 at 3 1/2 disk and the drive A of his computer is 5 1/4 floppy disk. So he can't installate his dos version 5.0. Does any one knew whether there is a way to solve his problem?
thanks in advance.
P.S.: Please send me the answer through email.
From: rfinch@water.ca.gov (Ralph Finch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: SoundBlaster advice needed
Date: 1 Oct 92 18:27:12 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Calif. Dept. of Water Resources

I'm interested in getting a SoundBlaster card; partly because a Morse
code translation program uses it, and partly for general
entertainment (for instance, 'Aces of the Pacific' can produce more
realistic sounds with a card).

The morse program was written for a 'SoundBlaster II', which has a
digital signal processor built into it.  I think this model is not
being made anymore?  From ads, I think there are 2 models of
SoundBlaster, a 'Pro' and some other model.

What's the difference between the models?  For the morse code program
and general use, which model is adequate?  What are street prices?
And, what nifty uses have people found for the card, public domain
programs, etc. (I thought it was remarkable that one could translate
aural Morse code from a shortwave receiver into characters, anything
else like that?)


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