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From: JOEL@jach.hawaii.edu (Joel Aycock)
Subject: Re: Speach Software and Synthysizers
Organization: UK Infrared Telescope, Joint Astronomy Centre, Hawaii
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 12:46:53 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.20

In <hr64191@pro-wing.cts.com> j.ruby@pro-wing.cts.com writes:

> I have been trying to find out information about speach software and
> synthysizers for a wile now, with no luck.  Everywhere I look I get vage
> answers.
> 
> I can't read the 80 col screen and everyone knows how tiring 40 col screens
> are, so any help at all in this subject would be "greatly appreciated."

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

James-

	I've been exploring various 
input/output alternatives for the PC, 
in the hopes of helping my aunt, who 
has MS. 

I found a DYNAMITE bulletin board, 
accessable by voice, modem, or FTP. 
It's got reams of files and software, 
and is run by a great guy-

To access, contact:

Bill McGarry 203-337-1518 (voice) or

HandiCap BBS 203-337-1607 (modem) or

HANDICAP.SHEL.ISC-BR.COM (anonymous FTP)

Check it out- all the scoop on speech 
synth programs available, both 
commercial and free/shareware.

Hope this helps-

aloha
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.mac.hardware,misc.forsale.wanted
From: gsm@mendelson.com (Geoffrey S. Mendelson)
Subject: Re: Plug VGA monitor into a MAC...
Organization: Mendelson Computer Consulting
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 10:50:55 GMT

svaldez@sdcc13.ucsd.edu asks:

>   I was wondering if I could plug my SuperVGA monitor into a Mac
>IIci with (I guess -- this is a friends Mac) a standard video 
>card.  I've heard that there is an adapter between the IBM
>hi-density 15 pin shell and the lo-density 15 pin on the Mac.  
>
>If someone could tell me where I could get one of these adapters
>or if someone could tell me the pinouts on the Mac side or
>something so I could interface the monitor the help would be
>very appreciated.

COMPUSA aka Softwarehouse sells them for $8.

Geoff.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: abrend@Lise.Unit.NO (Andreas Brendstuen)
Subject: problem with s3 local bus
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 16:20:42 GMT

I have a problem with my new pc.  My s3 local bus vga card will not support the
highest resolution supported by my monitor.  The card has 1 MB vram and the
dipswitches are correctly set, also the jumpers on the card.  The monitor is a
Phillips Brilliance 1420 and should support 1024x768 NI.  The dealer's serviceman
suggested that the card could be uncorrectly aligned in the local bus connection.
 I've tried to put it right and I don't think that this is the problem.  The card
runs in a i486dx 50MHz based PC.  If anyone have had a similar problem and know
the possible solution, please answer this note!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please answer by EMail: abrend@lise.unit.no

-----
Andreas
From: gettys@regent.enet.dec.com (Bob Gettys)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: HELP NEEDED: problems caused by new IDE drive
Date: 7 Sep 92 01:52:09 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <18dl4tINNd0g@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>, jregehr@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (John David Regehr) writes...
>I just replaced the 65 meg RLL drive in my Gateway 2000 386 with a Maxtor
>7213A.  The drive works beautifully, but it has caused some other problems
>with my system.
>First of all, about half of the time there are dark horizontal bands moving 
>up or down my screen.  The appear for no apparent reason, and they disappear
>when I access a floppy drive.  I moved my video card so that it is as far as
>possible from the IDE adapter, but it didn't seem to help.  My video card
>is an ATI VGA Wonder, and my monitor is a NEC MultiSync 3D.
>Also, my SoundBlaster has stopped working.  It used to use interrupt 7, but
>now the installation program says that int 7 is taken, along with the others
>it can use (2, 5, and 8, I think).  
>Anyway, I would appreciate hearing from anyone who cam shed some light on
>these problems.  Thanks.
> 
>---------------------------------------------------------------------
>John Regehr
>jregehr@matt.ksu.ksu.edu
>Kansas State University
>---------------------------------------------------------------------
> 


	I'll bet that you bought one of those "does everything" IDE adaptor
cards with 2 serial ports, a parrallel port, and a game port. The parallel port
is probably default configured on IRQ7. There may something on IRQ2 like a com
port. Does your video card use IRQ2? If it is set up to do so, try disabling it
on the video card. The video shoudn't need it. It is there to support a mode
that is almost never used at EGA resolutions. 

	/s/	Bob Gettys
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: 70355@rhodes.aero.org
Subject: >>> APPLE IIGS/IBM CLONE FOR SALE <<<
Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA. USA
Date: 9 Sep 92 10:20:12 PST

I have a complete Apple IIgs system with PC Transporter card
for running IBM programs.  Please see the Apple2 posting for
more info if you are interested in making an offer.

_______________________
James Marcolesco       |
Aerospace Corp.        |  The people without a vision perish...
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: tmcreek@eos.ncsu.edu (TOBIN MATTHEW CREEK)
Subject: Re: Does a 487sx shut down the 486sx??
Originator: tmcreek@c00478-224wi.eos.ncsu.edu
Reply-To: tmcreek@eos.ncsu.edu (TOBIN MATTHEW CREEK)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 03:00:07 GMT


In article <Bu9yvA.1rq@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
>In article <1852@junkyard.UUCP> joe@junkyard.UUCP (Joseph Sarkes) writes:
>
>>The 486 SX is also available in the 168 pin PGA ceramic package like the 
>>regular 486DX, and I suppose that the DX will fill the same socket without
>>any problem if the PGA socket is used.
>>The 487SX is available in a 169 pin PGA.
>
>I don't think it was Intel's intention that the DX should be plugged 
>into the 486SX's socket, so I think there would be some differences in 
>pinout. I imagine it wouldn't cause a short circuit, but it might just
>not work if you tried it. 
>
>Now thats not to say some enterprising motherboard designer wouldn't
>make a motherboard that could take a 486DX or 487DX slot, with perhaps
>a dip switch change...
>
>Come to think of it why not? That way they could cut down on tooling 
>costs and make a one-motherboard-fits-all part...
>
As I have posted before, I have such a motherboard.  It is made by Mitac,
and has an AMI BIOS.  The processor now is a 486SX-20.  There is NO 387SX 
socket.  You buy a DX, change 3 jumpers, an oscillator chip, and 2 or 3 ROM 
BIOS settings, and VOILA, you have a DX board.  Can go clear to 33MHz (or
66DX2 if cooled properly).

Contact Microlab in Computer Shopper for more info.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann)
Subject: Re: Advantages of 36 bit simms?
Organization: Zeos International, Ltd
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 03:50:50 GMT

In article <192pmnINN9q1@hilbert.math.ksu.edu> bennett@math.ksu.edu (Andy Bennett) writes:
>It has been noted recently in this group that Dell and Zeos now use 36 bit
>simms on some machines, instead of the old 72 bit simms. Why? Does a 36 bit
>simm have some advantage over a 72 bit simm that justifies cluttering up
>the marketplace with another technical detail to keep track of when ordering
>equipment. I was always taught that the development of interchangable parts
>was major advance in the industrial revolution. It appears high-tech firms
>today have forgotten this lesson.
>

ZEOS had had problems in the past with their memory upgrade policies that
customers found to be cumbersome and sometimes expensive to upgrade. By 
going with 36bit SIMMS we can offer more combinations of memory without
sacraficing most of your previous investments. The largest complaint
the we are accomodating is the ability to upgrade from 8 MB to a larger
capacity of RAM without having to replace all the SIMMS on the motherboard.
2, 4, 8, and 16 MB all can be accomplished with 1 SIMM rather than 4 or 8 
SIMMS. This applies only to the Local Bus Upgradables.  We haven't
forgotten. We just needed to find a better way to accomodate our customers
needs. Oxy's motherboard will use the "Standard 72bit SIMMS". ZEOS'
will use the 36bit.

>So anyway, what advantages does a 36 bit simm enjoy (Ken Germann are you
>listening :-)

Back in January of this year, ZEOS being on the 'net was only a concept
that I wanted to push through because I realized the value and the need
to provide levels of support to all users. 9 months later I read statements
like the last line of this message, I find a large smile on my face
and a printer in the background printing the message to give to my supervisors.
They read the messages and they know it was a good decision for them to 
back the continuation and expansion project. :-)

Yes, we listen daily.

Thank You.
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From: jre@zeos.com (Jim Erickson)
Subject: Re: Help! Sytos 1.32 does not want to work!
Organization: Zeos International, Ltd
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 15:58:11 GMT

In article <9209090253.AA10245@utep-vaxa.UUCP> sam@utep-vaxa.UUCP (samuel pedroza) writes:
>HELP!  I am using Sytos Plus version 1.32 under DOS 5.0 with a
>Wangteck 5150 backup tape drive off of an ADAPTEC 1542B SCSI adapter.
>Well, more correctly, I am TRYING to use but the backup software
>really has left me quite aggravated.  When the software starts backing
>up, it stops after about 22 files or about 293KB.  Right now, it stops
>at the same file (syplus.exe) and locks.  So I figured it may be the
>file so I excluded it from the backup.  It freezes constantly after
>about 300KB has been backed up and I have to reboot [stuff del]

>Here are my config.sys and autoexec.bat files:
>config.sys:
>DEVICE=C:\AHA\ASPI4DOS.SYS
>DEVICE=C:\AHA\ASPIDISK.SYS
> DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS

First off, you can't load HIMEM.SYS high.

> DOS=HIGH,UMB
>STACKS=9,256
> DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE
> SHELL=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM C:\DOS\ /e:1536 /p
>FILES=40
>BUFFERS=40
> DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV.EXE /DOUBLE_BUFFER

Next, if you are running the ASPI4DOS drivers etc. you do not need to
double_buffer smartdrv (the latest version - I haven't checked the earlier
ones). You may want to try using the ASPI drivers to change the bus timing
and you may also want to try booting clean without HIMEM or SmartDrv.

---JRE---
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: lestrade@Ra.MsState.Edu (John Patrick Lestrade)
Subject: Re: Should I buy the Cyrix chip ?
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 13:20:55 GMT

I have had no problems with the Cyrix 387 (33 mhz).  I do a lot of
beta testing of scientific software -- most of which makes heavy use
of math coprocs and I am very happy with the fast(er) performance of the
cyrix.

--
John Patrick Lestrade, PhD        
cnesta::lestrade
lestrade@ra.msstate.edu
From: nnw@concurrent.co.uk (Neil Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Latest AMI BIOS for ETEQ 386
Date: 11 Sep 92 09:07:20 GMT
Organization: Concurrent Computer Corporation, Slough, England

The subject says it all mostly...

I have a 386-40 with an ETEQ chipset and an AMI BIOS. The date of the
BIOS that I have is 24Dec90.

From what I read here all sorts of good things (tm) were introduced in
the BIOSs dated after May91 (I would particularly like to have the "boot
from c: by default" option, to make it harder to collect an unwanted
virus on my system)

Does anyone out there run an ETEQ chipset 386, and if so which AMI BIOS
do you have?

My supplier has, to his credit, been quite diligent in trying to get me
a later chip, but his distributer keeps sending the 24Dec90 version. The
only explanation that we can produce is that this IS the latest BIOS....
unless you know differently!

BTW the mother board is produced by "Companion", and to date its working
well. They list an address in California, but I believe it is
manufactured in the Far East.

Thanks in advance for your collective wisdom being sent by email....

Neil



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             227 Bath Road, Slough, Berks, SL1 4AX, England.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
From: wolff@zen.et.tudelft.nl (Rogier Wolff)
Subject: Serial line interrupts.
Originator: wolff@zen.et.tudelft.nl
Reply-To: wolff@zen.et.tudelft.nl (Rogier Wolff)
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 09:34:15 GMT


Hi everyone,

I'm trying to make a simple program using interrupts to read the serial
ports. However it seems as if I can't get the interrupts enabled to such
a level that my interrupt routine gets called. Does anybody out there know
any other bits that I should twiddle before I can receive interrupts?
(I had expected some trouble in getting the write interrupt to work,
turning it on and off at the rigth time. However I don't get any interrupts
at all!)

The interrupt handling part of the program is below, the rest is
chopped off for brevity. (Yes I _do_ call initirq)


#include <dos.h>

#define BUFSIZE 128

#define READ_READY 0x01
#define WRITE_READY 0x20

static int wqis=BUFSIZE,wqos=0;
static char wq[BUFSIZE];
static int wqhead=0;
static int wqtail=0;

static int rqis=BUFSIZE,rqos=0;
static char rq[BUFSIZE];
static int rqhead= 0;
static int rqtail= 0;

int base = 0x2f8;

interrupt anyint (void);
void read_int (void);
void write_int (void);

static int test=0;

void initirq (int port)
{
union REGS inregs,outregs;
struct SREGS sregs;

static int bases[]= { 0x3f8,0x2f8,0x3e8,0x2e8};
#define IRQNUM 3
base = bases[port-1];

inregs.h.ah = 0x25;
inregs.h.al = 0x0b;
inregs.x.dx = FP_OFF (anyint);
segread (&sregs);
sregs.ds = FP_SEG (anyint);
intdosx (&inregs,&outregs,&sregs);
/*  *(long *) (MK_FP(0,0xb*4)) = anyint; */
outportb (base+1,03);
outportb (0x21,1 << IRQNUM);
}

void ackit (int irq)
{
int tmp;
static int t;


tmp = inportb (0x21);
t++;t++;
outportb (0x21,tmp | (1<< irq));
t++;t++;
outportb (0x20,0x20);
}

void unblk (int irq)
{
int tmp;
static int t;

tmp = inportb (0x21);
t++;t++;
outportb (0x21, tmp & ~(1<< irq));
}

interrupt anyint ()
{
int st;

/* I know, I shouldn't use printf in interrupts: it crashes the machine.
   Which is the effect I hoped to provoke... */
/*printf ("Hello world! \n"); */
test++;
ackit (3);
st = inportb (base+5);
if (st & WRITE_READY)
    write_int ();
if (st & READ_READY)
    read_int ();
unblk (3);
return 0;
}


void disablewirq (void)
{
outportb (base+1,01);
}

void restartirq (void)
{
outportb (base+1,03);
}

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: jdalin@devildog.att.com (Jimmy Dalin)
Subject: Re: Gateway's Software Options?
Organization: AT&T IMS - Piscataway, NJ (USA)
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 12:40:46 GMT

In article <1992Sep09.020012.22945@gibdo.engr.washington.edu> bobk@gibdo.engr.washington.edu (Bob) writes:
>  Are the software packages Gateway includes with its systems totally
>  equivalent to the retail software packages?  Are Gateway buyers qualified
>  to all upgrades options that other buyers are?

The software is entirely equivalent, although the disks and manuals they
supply have "Gateway" labels and covers.  Gateway has arranged for site
licenses of the software, and is allowed to freely distribute this software
to their customers.  But Gateway is the registered owner of the software,not
you.  This has two effects: first, you will not get upgrade notices from the
vendor.  Gateway told me that they would send me upgrade offers, possibly at
a lower price than the original software vendor.  (This remains to be seen.)
Second, although you can legally sell this software to someone else (by
removing the software from your machine and giving the buyer the original
disks and manuals), you cannot guarantee the buyer that they will receive
upgrade notices.

-- 
Jim Dalin            "No Salga Afuera"  
AT&T                    N.Y.C.T.A.
ATTMail id: !jdalin            
Compuserve: 72260,1573
From: pascal@CAM.ORG (Pascal Gosselin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: ET4000 (Tseng Labs) Hardware compatibility.
Keywords: ET4000 TSENG VGA
Date: 12 Sep 92 20:59:31 GMT
Organization: Communications Accessibles Montreal, Quebec Canada

I have a 1.5 year old ET4000 board that refuses to work in any
16 bit slot of two machines (a C&T 386SX-16 and a C&T 486-33) while
it worked (and still does work) perfectly in an Opti 486-25 .

The card works when plugged into an 8 bit slot in the 'incompatible'
machines.

Is there any hope (ROM upgrade?) of getting this card to work in
16bit mode on the C&T chipset machines?  This card is a generic
Tseng ET4000 OEM model.  It has a singal crystal with a chip to
derive all the other frequencies.  It has 1mb RAM.

Reply by email please.

-Pascal
 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mark@walt.CS.MsState.Edu (Mark Rauschkolb)
Subject: Seagate ST3096A/N setup?
Organization: Mississippi State Univ.
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 21:03:35 GMT

I have an ST 3096A/N ide harddrive, and It says it has 610 cyl, 35 s/t, 3 heads

How do I convert this into numbers for 17 s/t?

Thanks

Mark
From: ahummel@ems.cdc.com (H. Austin Hummel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Help.... Upgrading motherboard....
Date: 11 Sep 92 12:54:01 GMT
Reply-To: you@ems.cdc.com
Distribution: usa
Organization: Empros Systems International, a division of CDC

In article <1992Sep10.145302.903@usl.edu>, bjs9077@usl.edu (Smith Brad J) writes:
|> 
|> Hello.....  I would like to upgrade my 286 machine to a 386-40.
|> 
|> 	Can anyone tell me of any problems or specifics I need to know
|> about before investing in the 386-40 motherboard.  Is this as easy as
|> replacing the motherboard???  Any help is greatly appreciated.
|> 

When you get your information, please post it here, there are a lot of
people out there going through the same thing.
Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:23684 comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard:1745 rec.music.synth:14561 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:12373
From: mir@opera.chorus.fr (Adam Mirowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard,rec.music.synth,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Music Quest MIDI with WIN3.1 <<--Not working!
Date: 8 Sep 92 16:22:22 GMT
Reply-To: mir@opera.chorus.fr (Adam Mirowski)
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Organization: Chorus systemes, Saint Quentin en Yvelines, France

In article <BtzDHo.Ks4@news.udel.edu>, jon@chopin.udel.edu (Jon Deutsch) writes:
%% Thanks to all who emailed me their help!
%% FYI, the problem all along was the fact that the MPU-401 and LAPC
%% drivers that come with win3.1 don't work with the Music Quest MIDI
%% card (so much for being MPU-401 compat, eh?).  I dl'ed the MQ windows
%% driver from the MQ BBS and set it on IRQ5 (unused) and Addr: 330 (default).
%% Now it apparently works.

Could you upload it to ftp.cica.indiana.edu, directory
/pub/pc/win3/uploads, which is world-writeable?

-- 
Adam Mirowski,  mir@chorus.fr (FRANCE),  tel. +33 (1) 30-64-82-00 or 74
Chorus systemes, 6, av.Gustave Eiffel, 78182 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines CEDEX
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: orville%weyrich@tnet.com (Orville R. Weyrich)
Subject: Re: Who makes VESA local bus motherboards?
Reply-To: orville@weyrich.UUCP (Orville R. Weyrich)
Organization: Weyrich Computer Consulting
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 05:30:49 GMT

In article <pjvgi5c@fido.asd.sgi.com> pdc@sgi.com (Paul Close) writes:
>
>Even ISA is faster than all but the fastest hard drives.  ISA can do up to 4
>megabytes/second, whereas most hard drives are in the 1-2 MB/s range.  This
>means that wether your hard drive controller is on the ISA bus or local bus,
>your hard drive performance will be the same.

But if you have a caching controller, then you may be able to get much higher
apparent transfer rates than the physical disk transfer rate.


orville

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From: ahummel@ems.cdc.com (H. Austin Hummel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: gateway 2000
Date: 14 Sep 92 14:29:29 GMT
Reply-To: you@ems.cdc.com
Organization: Empros Systems International, a division of CDC

In article <n08y7t#@rpi.edu>, gilem@aix02.ecs.rpi.edu (Michael R. Gile) writes:
|> I have heard a lot of bad things about Gateway 2000 here, 
|> and would like the people who are pleased with them to give
|> me some information about their good experiences.
|> 

I got my 486/33 system a year ago, I have called tech support, several
times, and it took some time (1 day, 2days, 20 Min, 4 min, 1 MIn. 3 days)
to get through. but I got answers and solved my problem. The biggest
problem was getting the 1st Telepath modem to work it never did.
The Second modem I got works great. 

In this day of every decreasing margins for hardware vendors, the Tech
Support is sometimes reduced. So far I have not seen this at Gateway
Though it would be nice to send E-Mail to them and get a scheduled
call back time back to allow better scheduling of my time and theirs.

IMHO Gateway is one of the better vendors and give excellent value.