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From: andreast@athena.mit.edu (Andreas Turanski)
Subject: Re: HP Deskjet 500 Cartridge Refilling
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 09:42:21 GMT

In article <1992Dec9.125903.29273@hippo.ru.ac.za> sppp@hippo.ru.ac.za (Prof P Piacenza) writes:
>In <92343.132227CMS@psuvm.psu.edu> <CMS@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:

>>Some place I saw an article on refilling HP Deskjet 500

>>Cartriges.    Anybody have it or know where it is?
>	 Internet: chpp@unitrix.utr.ac.za  (preferred).

Hi, I have not had to order the kits yet, my original cartridges are still
working, but I got a catalog from _Computer_Friends_ which has the
best selection of refills for the HP which I have seen (I've been looking
in advance :) They advertise in either PC Mag (more probable) &/or
Computer Shopper magazine.  If you're in the US, they have an 800 number
but I don't have it with me.  Anyone feel free to email me for more info.
I have not used them yet but they seem to be the best place to get refills
from.

BTW, they have a full range of colors as well as B&W inks so one
     CAN refill the HP 500C (or 550C too I guess- same cartridges).

Also, if anyone uses this or ANY REFILL company, I would very much like
to get email from you telling me how it went- my cartridges are going
to run dry some time <G>.

Andreas.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.periphs.scsi
From: sasbge@ant.unx.sas.com (Gantt Edmiston)
Subject: Need phone # for MAXTOR
Originator: sasbge@ant.unx.sas.com
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 21:50:17 GMT
Reply-To: sasbge@ant.unx.sas.com
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
Keywords: maxtor,scsi


I need the phone number for MAXTOR, the disk drive folks.
I want to install a MAXTOR SCSI disk in my PC and I need to know
how to get the necessary device drivers.

This is from memory, but I think the model number is XT-3280...

Any info would be much appreciated.  Email back or post here.
Thanks.


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From: Eric.Chan@ttlg.UUCP (Eric Chan)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Joystick
Date: 18 Dec 92  19:02:12 mst

I have a 40MHz 386 and it seems tha my joysticks keep losing it's calibration as the result of it's high freqency. How do I solve this problem? I have a conventional game port (One of those IDE controller with 2p/1r/1g/2fdd/2hdd)
Thanx

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: singer@uwovax.uwo.ca
Subject: New IBM Monitor Unable In OS/2?!
Organization: University of Western Ont, London
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 21:02:11 GMT

I have been looking at an IBM Value Point 486SX with OS/2, and the IBM 
6319 Value Point monitor. Despite the advertising copy, what I see is 
a fuzzy screen of about the same quality as any no-name monitor of
half the price. The man at the computer store on campus says that the
reason for the poor quality is that IBM doesn't supply proper drivers
for its own monitor, that possibly one can get better quality by
buying a new video card. This sounds astonishing to me. Is it possible
that IBM would put out a new system which is not capable of driving
its own monitor, or could there be some other explanation?-- 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Subject: Re: Is 16550AFN (16bit buffer) UART plug-in compat for 8250?
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 19:13:37 GMT

tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood) writes:
>I've got a serial card with two 8250 (yes 8250) one socketed, one soldered.
>I've also got a 16550afn chip.
>The chips appear identical, but I seem to recall some confusion a while back.
>Are the 16550 chips pin-to-pin compatible so all I have to do is unplug one
>and plug in the other???

You can unplug an 8250 (or 16450), plug in a 16550AFN, and it'll work
just fine.  If your software supports the 16550A you'll get the extra
advantage of the buffer.

The chips are as pin for pin compatible as they need to be.  If we
want to be anal about it, the 16550 does have some extra functions on
pins that aren't used on the 8250, but that's not a problem.

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From: shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu (David S. Shy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: How to assemble a pc? Help.
Date: 13 Dec 1992 12:34:32 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
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Keywords: computer assemble

In article <reddy.724243303@spso> reddy@spso.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jagan Reddy) writes:
>Hi netters,
>	I am thinking about assembling my own 486 machine. I am yet to analyse
>if it is feasible and if so if is considerably profitable i.e would there
>be enough savings if I assemble my own computer, given the fact that
>computers are dam cheap now-a-days. 
>
>	Did any one have such experiance?
>Help, suggestions are welcome with sources for parts and books to read 
>before attempting such a venture.
>
>Thanks
>Jagan
>

Well, I haven't checked out the latest prices.  but about a year ago
when i bought my 486, i was also considering assembling my own machine.
however, after calculating the total price, i realized that teh difference
was about $30-$50.  i ended up just buying the whole system from a
vendor.  my reasoning was:

(1) the seller will often charge you less for a particular part if you
	buy the whole system (i.e. $50 for a disk controller, but you
	the system seller might only charge you $45)

(2) there's no worring about whether hte individual pieces will be
	compatible w/ eachother because typically, the system seller
	knows it better than you (unless you are very well knowledged)

(3) if you have a problem, there'll be someone real to talk to (other
	than begging for help on the net ;)  [i.e., when i recently
	lost the settings for my hd, i just went back to where i got
	it and asked.]  plus, the people might be more willing to help
	if they know that you bought hte system from them.

of course, the above only applies if you are able to find a good vendor.
i'm just speaking from two happy purchases.

as for books, isn't that one book "inside the ibm pc" (i think it's by
peter norton) pretty good?

also, while i was by the newstand not too long ago, i remember that on
the cover of this one magazine it said "building your own 486".  i don't
recall the name of the magazine off the top-of-my-head, but it was not
one of the big ones (i.e. pc magazine, pc world)  i'm pretty sure your
local waldenbooks should have it.  (unless it was from the past few
months)


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From: tomasa@dront.nada.kth.se (Tomas Arvidsson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga now kicks PC butt - no way.
Date: 16 Dec 92 01:35:08 GMT
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

In <BzA8ys.AFF@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:

>In article <1992Dec3.014534.16766@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> dmacphee@nyx.cs.du.edu (Don mac phee) writes:

>> The 4000 ships with 6M of Ram and a 120M drive. Besides, you need to
>>remember that OS/2 and Windows eat the first 2M of Ram when you
>>boot up. The Amy eats about 300K.
>                             ^^^^

>And how big did you say those OS ROMs were? 

It's a single ROM and it's 512KB.

>What do you do to upgrade a version?

Change the ROM or, if the old ROM version is 36.x, get a new Kickstart Disk.

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From: reza@magellan.ae.utexas.edu (Alireza Vali)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: AMD rubbish????
Date: 17 Dec 92 22:34:09 GMT

In article <1992Dec13.225845.7859@julian.uwo.ca> wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith) writes:
>
>What 486sx has the same performance as a 386-40?  My gut feeling is that
>a 486-sx-25 is about even with a 386-40.  

Right you are!  In the December 92 issue of Byte magazine there is an
article on head to head comparisons between various CPU's including
the Intel 486SX/25 and the AMD 386/40.  In virtually all the benchmarks,
the AMD was right at or just a hair below the performance level of a
486SX/25.  I would imagine the 486SX/33 would be considerably faster
than the AMD because of the faster clock rate.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: The Death of x86 Arch. ?
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 19:55:57 GMT

In <1gqadqINN26v@hpscit.sc.hp.com> matthias@nsr.hp.com (Matthias Kamm) writes:

>With Windows NT coming out soon, and the huge marketing
>effort Microsoft is sure to put into it, is Intel worried?
>Win/NT will run DOS and Windows applications, and is
>currently being ported to Dec/Alpha, Intergraph/Clipper,
>and MIPS/R4000.  If the os is actually well accepted, 
>IBM/RS6000 and HP/PARISC won't be far behind.

Why would someone with one of those processors want to run NT?  I'd
much rather run the SGI UNIX/X stuff on an Indigo than run NT.

>Will Intel still have any price/performance advantage?
>Price definitely for a while, but for any high-end 
>application, the newer generation RISC architectures
>blow the old x86 chips out of the water.  Are we 
>seeing the beginning of the end of the Intel microprocessor
>monopoly?

Only if you think people are going to dump UNIX and flock to NT.  They
aren't.  

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From: garber@aru.dom.uab.edu (David W. Garber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Two SCSI controllers?
Date: 20 Dec 92 17:37:09 GMT
Organization: Univ of Ala. @ Birmingham

I have a Seagate SCSI drive with an ST02 hard/floppy controller.  I want to 
buy a CD-ROM drive which also has a SCSI controller.  Can two SCSI 
controllers work in one system?  Will the Seagate drive run off of the CD-
ROM controller (or vice versa)?  I know SCSI devices can be daisy chained, 
but does this require two SCSI connectors on each device?  The Seagate drive 
has only one.  Thanks in advance for any advice.

David W. Garber (garber@aru.dom.uab.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: edso@watson.ibm.com (Edward So)
Subject: Re: 3-chip vs 9-chip SIMMs?
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:51:10 GMT
Reply-To: edso@watson.ibm.com		
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

I don't the history behind it(i.e, which one came first, etc.), but
3 chip SIMMs are as good as 9 chip SIMMs, if not better.  I have
heard that some poorly designed motherboards may have problems when
different types of SIMMs are mixed, but in general they should work
just fine.  

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: schao@monet.uwaterloo.ca (Stewart Chao)
Subject: Zero Insertion Force (ZIP) sockets
Organization: University of Waterloo
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 19:28:41 GMT

Zeos, Intel and a few other companies have a lot of adds about
Zero Insertion Force (ZIP) sockets, and how easily it is to 
upgrade change a CPU chip if it is mounted in a ZIP socket.
I've seen and use one and was amazed about how neat it was,
but I would like to known how "new" ZIP sockets are.

Last Friday, I was working late I opened up an obselete NEC
286 Pomermate 2.  Just to look around at the internals. I notice
the 286 chip's mount look at a ZIP socket.  (I could see a handle
bar.)  This got me very curious, I had to remove a board to get
at the CPU but when I did the mount did turn on to be a ZIF 
socket.  (Or at least work like one).

So how new or old is the idea of ZIF sockets?  The machine is
at least 3 or 4 years old.

Stewart

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: rg9538@ehsn2.cen.uiuc.edu (Ronald E Garnett)
Subject: Re: Report on Speedstar 24x/fast bus clocks
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 16:44:12 GMT

ee152fbw@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (Itoyoko) writes:

>In article <Bz0CF5.C2H@news.cso.uiuc.edu> rg9538@eehp5 (Ronald E Garnett) writes:
>>"How fast of a bus can the XXXXX card function at?"
>>
>>With respect to the 24x, I have some documented results.
>>At a 12 MHz bus clock on a 486-33 from Gecco Computers,
>>the 24x produced 12+ WinMarks, and a 3DBench (DOS Graphics)
>>rating of 22.3.  It also produced many errors in Dos and Win 3.1   
>>including random pixels and characters......
>>
>I'm running the 24x in a 486-40 13mhz bus speed, 14M winmarks,
>landmark video 6600chr/ms, not errors bugs of blips in either 
>windows 3.1 or OS/2, the motherboard is a opti wb type and
>I'm running in zero wait mode.  The board makes a difference,
>in fact the OPTI I have will actually slow down the card if
>I choose the atclk/2.5 setting on every card I've owned, so
>I think that's a design or labeling flaw, but at atckl/3,
>it runs just fine.
>>
>>So these are the results of an extensive oscillator and jumper
>>swapping extraveganza (spelling?)
>>
> don't have a seperate bus oscillator, but I stuck to changes
>thorugh
>CMOS settings.


I wonder if I just have a flaky card then?  Or if my system can't
handle that particular cadr at 12 MHZ?  My old Speedstar card could
handle the 12 MHz bus just fine...........




Ron Garnett

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From: kentiler@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Kent P. Iler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Can you add an IDE drive to 286 with MFM drive?
Date: 14 Dec 1992 21:45:26 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

Hi,
  I looked over the past discussions and everything seems to be
said that you need to buy a special card that runs both
types of drive.  Whether this is right or wrong is not really my
question.  Heres the situation.  My brother has a 286 with a MFM
20 meg drive.  His Christmas present is a 125 meg IDE drive.  He
has a controller that will run 2 IDE drives and 2 Floppies.
He has the seperate controller that runs the MFM.  Can I just
hook up the IDE to the IDE controller or do I actually have to
buy another card for it.  Please, if you can, tell me the cheapest
way to implement this.  Thanks for your time.
				--Kent Iler
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster)
Subject: Power loss scrambles HD
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 23:01:16 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC

A friend has 486 EISA system using an AMI motherboard and AMI SCSI
controller. He has a big Seagate Wren SCSI drive.

He uses MSDOS 5 with SMARTDRV.EXE configured with write-cacheing
turned off. No multitaskers, nothing fancy except QEMM running
in non-stealth mode. He uses the AMI SCSI device driver for safety
even though the single physical drive would be adequately serviced
by the SCSI ROM BIOS extension.

He uses this machine to do his business stuff at home. The other night
he was arranging things on the floor, with his machine sitting idle at
the menu of his DOS-based billing software, when he accidentally kicked
the switch on the UPS and powered down the system.

When he turned the UPS back on, the system booted but everything
acted funny. Lockups, etc. As a generic trouble shooting measure he
ran CHKDSK and it found zillions upon zillions of lost and crosslinked
clusters in the root and every subdirectory.

A backup fanatic, he had a pretty current backup on tape so he just
reformatted the C: drive and did a restore rather than fiddle with disk
repair utilities.

It's worked OK since the restore.

Question: how can a power-down, with the machine sitting idle with no files
open for writing in DOS, cause a scrambled SCSI drive?


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: "Windoze" slow? Naah...Re: pc and mac: was RE: 486 and mac benchmarks
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 19:09:24 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.124759.28672@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
>In article <trimble.724558422@ph-meter.beckman.uiuc.edu> trimble@ph-meter.beckman.uiuc.edu (Chris Trimble) writes:

>	True, but I can buy <$200 24 bit cards forthe PC.  I know of
>	at least two that you can buy *retail* for that much.  
>
>	Of course, they don;t integrate very well.  PC's can do the
>	24 bit thing cheaper, but badly.  But can they due the seamless
>	monitor thing--even badly?

Depends how you use them. Windows usually has pretty up-to-date drivers 
for just about everything within a month or two of release.


>	I believe he's referringto Motorola's apparent inability to
>	get a faster version of the '040 out the door.  Just so you know, 
>	though, Motorola does produce crippled chips.  Not crippled
>	like Intel (FYI, the 386 dx halves the bus, the 486sx does not--
>	it doesn't include a mathco)--they produce an MMUless version of
>	the '030 (Amiga products use this to add cheap-030 cards, since
>	Amigados doesn't use the MMU). 

Hmmm the 386SX is the halved bus chip. The 68040/25 does supposedly 
use clock doubler technology (so went a post I read here - I can't 
confirm it) so its faster than a straight 486DX/25.

>> Heh. Probably because the operators are too short-sighted to figure
>> out how to link them together - so people can ACTUALLY DO THEIR WORK
>> BETWEEN THE TWO (yes, it can be done!). So people who have always had
>> their work on the PCs stay there because there isn't an effort to try
>> to even out the usage in the lab (by buying WordPerfect/Mac, Lotus123/Mac)

Our more advanced users here do this. I can (and do) run Excel on either 
platform with the data files residing on a Novell volume somewhere.

>	Umm, I can say that it's the opposite here at UofMD.  Generally,
>	it's much easier to get a PC than a Mac.

Over here it depends on where you are in terms of the semester. Early
on the Mac labs are more heavily used. Later in the middle of the semes-
ter the PC labs are quite a bit busier. This is because earlier in the 
semester the students figure that its easier to read e-mail and write 
simple letter on the Mac. Later they'll have had a class or two under 
their belts and/or they lose a term paper or two due to Mac crashes and
start doing their serious work on the PCs.






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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: Amiga now kicks PC butt - no way.
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 04:08:14 GMT

In article <exuptr.408.0@exu.ericsson.se> exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (Patrick Taylor) writes:

>>I get the feeling
>>that Intel and the compatibles have a conspiracy going on about forcing
>>the need for more MHz.  
>
>Sorry, I disagree.  It is the users who make this push, with the hunger for
>more power in the code.  It is true that you can write highly optimized code
                                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
>that is faster than Windows, but not with all of the software-connectivity 
>that Windows has.  Suddenly when you buy new software, you don't have to 
>pick mouse, printer, graphics, sound, etc... drivers for each one.  You just 
>do it and it's done.  That's where the HP's are going.

Very true. It'll also take forever to write. Observe Geoworks. Written
in Assembler. Very fast. Lots of promise. But it will never catch up
since the code takes so long to write.




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From: root@cibbs.UUCP (Mark Buckaway)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: ATI questions
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 01:23:32 EST
Organization: DataSoft Consulting (Toronto, Ont. Canada)

syny@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (R Craig Stevenson) writes:

> bsamman@ocf.berkeley.edu (Ben Samman) writes:
> 
> >4)I was told that ATI essentially wants to forget the owners of the Original
> >Ultra.  Is this true?  What is the newest version of utilities for it and
> >where can I get them?

This is horse-pucky. They are still supporting even the original Wonder cards
in Windows.

> I have the same questions.  More specifically, what is the latest
> version of the Mach 8 chip window's video drivers?  The latest version
> I found on the network was the 920425 release date.  Does ATI have a
> later version?

Dated Sept. 1992. Call their BBS: (416) 756-4591. Download W31ACC.ZIP or GO
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