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From: ray@eecs.nwu.edu (Jim Ray)
Subject: fax/phone switch
Organization: EECS Department, Northwestern University
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 03:14:03 GMT

I recently purchased, and subsequently returned, a faulty fax/phone
switch.  It was supposed to automatically route fax calls to the
fax/modem board in my PC.

Can some kind soul recommend a brand and model of a switch that will
reliably route fax/modem calls to the right place?  Are there any
special features other than automatic routing for these types of
devices?

Any help would be gratefully appreciated.

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From: wolff@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Rogier Wolff)
Subject: Re: Is 5 MB/sec to disk possible?
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 11:37:03 GMT

frisk@complex.is (Fridrik Skulason) writes:

>johnhunt@apee.ogi.edu (John Hunt) writes:

>>1.  Can anyone suggest a disk for this application?

>The suggestion below may sound silly, but it would work, if there is
>sufficient time between the 20Mbyte bursts.

>   Fill the machine up with RAM (32 Meg) and create a 30M RAMdisk.
>   Each burst would more-or-less fill it, but with enough time between
>   bursts, you would not have any problems writing the data to a slow disk
>   between the bursts.

>-frisk

The next step in the original question was to write things to tape.
You'd probably need a commercial package to do that, and this will
requ{re the data to be in regular files. Therefore the RAMDISK
is ideal: A regular file with very good access times. 

					Roger.
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From: mulvey@blurt.oswego.edu (Allen Mulvey, SUNY, Oswego, NY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: hardware needed
Date: 10 Nov 92 13:05:35 GMT
Organization: SUNY College at Oswego, Oswego, NY

In article <1992Nov9.200056.27059@selway.umt.edu>, waldorf@selway.umt.edu (Rick Waldorf) writes:
> I am trying to find a controller card that was manufactured by Miniscribe
> for a model 8450-xt . I had been using this drive and controller in my
> Zeos 386-sx and it has been working fine. I recently had need to pull this
> card and ended up getting some voltage across it. My controller card is 
> 
> now a pile of junk. I've tried acculogics various controller cards that should
> work with this older 8 bit ide drive in a 16 bit system but have had no luck
> so far. The card that was supplied with the drive was manufactured for Miniscribe so I'm starting to believe that I need the original card. Unfortunately
> Miniscribe is no more! If you have one of these old  cards or a solution
> I would really appreciate hearing from you. Thank's! Rick

Unless I am grossly mistaken my Miniscribe 8450 from my old 286 is RLL. 
Maybe that is why your IDE cards don't work.

			Allen Mulvey
			mulvey@blurt.oswego.edu
From: sarnold@andy.bgsu.edu (G. Steve Arnold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Microlab is a rip-off!!!  BEWARE!!!
Date: 12 Nov 92 20:55:46 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.

reza@magellan.ae.utexas.edu (Alireza Vali) writes:

> This is highly unethical.  I would think the customer is entitled to
> receive what he/she pays for.  If they want to give me something "better,"
> the least they could do is check with me first!  My reason for posting
> this was because so many people seem interested in the 24X, and many
> buy through Computer Shopper.  Microlab has the lowest advertised price,
> and I'm doing this so no one else gets suckered into this situation.
> It's a shot in the dark, but I'm going to call my credit card company and
> the post office to see whether what they did constitutes fraud.


	Isn't this (barring that they tried to give you a "superior"
card...) the old 'Bait and Switch'? Sounds fishy...


-- steve


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From: jwoods@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Jeff Woods)
Subject: Re: Conner 30104 Question
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 09:40:39 GMT
Organization: CompuTrac Inc., Richardson TX

In article <1992Nov4.235054.1@sara.cc.utu.fi> ipe@sara.cc.utu.fi writes:
|I have a Conner's hd model 30104 which manual claims to be 120MBytes drive but
|I am able to make it only to the capacity of 104 MBytes. That is the same as
|Conner's model 3104. Am I reading this hd's label somehow wrong or what?
|Isn't my hd really 120 drive but 104 Mb's drive? I am able to make the
|partitioning following the 30104's values but when I try to format the drive
|there occurs seek failures. What's wrong?

According to a document from Conner dated 08/91, the geometries are:
CP3104:  8 hd, 776 cyl, 33 sect @ 512 bytes/sector = 104,890,368 bytes
CP30104: 8 hd, 762 cyl, 33 sect @ 512 bytes/sector = 102,998,016 bytes

I suspect that both drives are about 120 meg unformatted (whatever that means 
or is good for) and as you can see, just over 100 meg formatted.

Both have "Universal Translate" which means "Select a drive type that is close
to but does not exceed the megabyte capacity of the drive.  The drive will
translate to the megabyte capacity you have selected."

Notable: "Conner drives are low level formatted at the factory.  It is only
necessary to run SETUP, FDISK, and DOS FORMAT."
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From: danh@quantum.on.ca (Dan Hildebrand)
Subject: Re: video cards and 16megs of ram
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 12:06:24 GMT
Organization: Quantum Software Systems

In article <74640@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt7691c@prism.gatech.EDU (Jay Lofstead (gt7691c)) writes:
>Is there a problem with cards other than the ati ultra (was that it?)
>when a machine has 16 megs of ram and an ISA bus?  I am trying to
>decide which video card to buy for a 486-50 with 16 megs of ram, but
>do not want to run into a problem with overlapping memory areas.
>Any help would be appreciated.

Since ATI is reworking their driver to use the 64K memory window normally
occupied by the VGA memory as the "aperture" in the Graphics Ultra Pro, it
will no longer have a problem on an ISA bus machine with 16 Mbytes of RAM.
From a performance perspective, this should deliver very nearly the full
performance of the card, without the memory conflicts a 16 Mbyte ISA bus
machine would otherwise have. Of course, the local bus version of the card
doesn't have these problems....

I'd call them about the driver, and if everything checked out, go with the
ATI card - it's certainly faster.


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From: bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell)
Subject: Re: HP LaserJet 4
Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:04:34 GMT

In <1992Nov9.220455.6561@netcom.com> hchong@netcom.com (Hoi Chong) writes:

:From article <BxGEDp.to@beach.csulb.edu>, by bwong@beach.csulb.edu (Bradley Wong):
:> 
:>  Note that the base HP4 does NOT have postscript capabilities--there
:>  is an add-on board (actually SIMM) to do that (and requires a
:>  minimum of 6Mb of RAM (2Mb is std.). The HP4M has postscript, 6Mb
:>  and a localtalk card for ~$3000.

:Is the HP4 duplex?  Or do we have to pay more for a HP4D?  I would assume
:that with 2 trays, it would do duplex (like the 2 trays in 2D).

Funny you should ask that.  I just asked the same question of my
HP supplier yesterday, and they said there isn't a 4D yet (and
weren't sure what HP's plans were).  I was hoping to find a 3D at
a righteous price.

Bill
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From: joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott)
Subject: Re: problem with pctools
Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 15:50:14 GMT

Bob.Dickey@altern8.mi.org (Bob Dickey) writes:

>MG>a friend of mine uses PCTOOLS 7.1 with a 31MB-RLL-Harddisk. The disk is set
>MG>to type 2 in the CMOS-setup ( 614 cyln, 4 heads, 17 sectors, 20MB ). All
>MG>worked fine until PC-CACHE, SI or DISKFIX is started. PC-CACHE reports a
>MG>difference betwenn the bios-settings and the real settings, DISKFIX won't
>MG>analyze the disk and SI reports a 59,4 MB disk with 781 cyln and 6 heads.

>MG>I tried to fix this problem with fdisk from DROS but it says 59,6 MB, too.
>MG>I thought, the settings for any harddisk is stored in the cmos and nowhere
>MG>else, but there must be some other place, because fdisk and si shows exactly
>MG>the same ( wrong ) values.

>MG>What could I do to repair this disk ?? DISKFIX reports a bad bootblock or
>MG>diagnostic-block, but all other programs work and the disk does boot.

>You don't say if its on a 286 or not. My 286 CMOS is set up with OUT the HD
>on it. I don't understand this but it works. It sees it when booting up and
>everything. It is a Seagate HD, I think. Someone was playing with my CMOS
>setup and put my HD in. It would NOT work when the HD was put on the CMOS.
>I don't understand it but I wont change any of the CMOS to show the HD. I
>sugjust not putting you HD in your CMOS. Maybe that will work, why I don't
>know, though. Any comments.

This is because you are using an 8-bit XT hard disk controller that has its
own BIOS.  In this case, you tell your PC-BIOS that *no* hard disk(s) is/are
installed.  Better yet, buy a 16-bit controller and then set your PC-BIOS to
the correct parameters.

-JTT
From: dougw@ks25.chi.il.us (Doug Waldron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Monitor screen damaged by Magnet
Summary: Tree Climbers
Date: 10 Nov 92 15:57:36 GMT
Organization: R. R. Donnelley & Sons

From: bmutas@bnr.ca (Bryan Utas)
>My five year old son decided to see what would happen if he placed
>a magnet on my SVGA CTX monitor.  Well, he found out.  The two areas
>where the magnet were placed now have 'shadows' associated with them
>(ie: darker areas).  This is especially noticeable if the background
>is light in color.
>
>Does anyone know if there is a fix for this sort of problem.  If so,
>what type of equipment would I need?

Equiment?  Hand cuffs.

This problem can be PREVENTED through birth control...  

(-:

]R
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From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: Bernoulli drive?
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 18:03:03 GMT

In <EDWONG.92Nov5084043@acs.nntp-read.bu.edu> edwong@acs.nntp-read.bu.edu (Edward Wong) writes:


>Hi all,

>	I want to know the performance and the reliability of a Bernoulli
>drive? (i.e. the access time) Does any of you own one?  I am thinking of
>buying a Bernoulli 90PRO.  There is one concern, if I eventually buy one,
>then shall I treat it as a backup disk, or a hard disk?

Treat it as a hard drive.  I don't have the 90; mine is a 44 and it
has been quite reliable.  The media comes with a 5 year guarantee, and
I think the access times are typically in the range of 22 ms.

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From: klosp@rimail.interlan.com (Patrick Klos)
Subject: C-Itoh 8E Laser Printer
Keywords: laser printer
Organization: Klos Technologies, Inc. (603) 424-0138
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 12:37:37 GMT

Can anyone give an opinion on the C-Itoh 8E Laser Printer??  I am 
considering the purchase of one of these printers, and would appreciate the 
feedback of anyone who's had experience with them.

Please E-mail direct if you don't mind...

Sincerely,

Patrick Klos
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From: hyhuang@engws10.ic.sunysb.edu ()
Subject: Suggestions on purchasing a hard drive
Originator: hyhuang@engws10.ic.sunysb.edu
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 07:45:18 GMT

Hi:

  Me and my friend are consider buying a new IDE hard drive,
we would like to hear suggestions from you dear netters about
what brand to choose. We are looking for a ~200 MB drive. The 
brands we are considering is Maxtor and Western Digital. 
Conner and Quantum would also be considered if we can find a 
cheaper price. Any good or bad experience about above brands?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

				hhuang@sbee.sunysb.edu
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From: kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann)
Subject: Re: Recommendations for tape drive (for DOS, OS/2, Linux)
Organization: Zeos International, Ltd
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 03:51:33 GMT

The answer for DOS, and OS/2 for tape drives is ARCHIVE. AIM for OS/2
is the best tape back up software I have seen in a long time. The
same goes for AIM for Windows. The Archive Tape drives are 
also supported by most commercial versions of Unix. 
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From: fles0092@rz.uni-hildesheim.de (Frank Leskova)
Subject: HP LaserJet 4 Fonts
Reply-To: fles0092@rz.uni-hildesheim.de
Organization: Universitaet Hildesheim, RZ
Distribution: world
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 11:44:22 GMT

Hi,

is someone out there, who can tell me, which fonts are built into the LJ4?
If possible, include a short description (for example: looks like Avant-
Garde in PostScript).
Please reply via E-Mail.
Thanks in advance.

Frank


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From: smaa@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shaw-Chang Maa)
Subject: Help! Help! Help!
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 13:27:59 GMT


The problem: My system cannot recognize C drive.
       I start from A drive, but when I type C after the prompt, it shows
    this message: invalid drive specification.

Information about my PC:
1. It's a 386DX-33
2. AMI BIOS
3. Fujitsu IDE Hard disk. Model #: M2612ET
4. Hard Disk type in CMOS:
          Type     Cylinder  Head   Sector    Capacity
           47         666      8      33        86MB
    I never had problem with it, and I am sure it is o.k. BTW, it's only 1
    year old.

What I did:
1. My hard disk was logically partitioned into two drives: C and D. Last
   night, I decided to delete the partition and turned it into one drive only.
   I did this with FDISK command from drive B. At this moment, I could still go
   to C drive. However, when I typed "dir", the message "invalid media....."
   came up. (Sorry, I cannot remember the whole message.)
2. Then I accidentally low-level formatted the hard disk with program CHECKIT.
   From that moment on, the system cannot recognize C drive. However, I could
   still test the hard disk speed with CHECKIT. BTW, I tried NORTON, but it
   could not recognize C drive either.

   Any advice will be appreciated.

Shaw-Chang Maa
From: adhir@cygnus.umd.edu (Alok Dhir)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Looking
Date: 8 Nov 92 19:19:26 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

Where can I find a good multi-I/O card with a wide range of IRQs?  My goal is
to have at least three SIMULTANEOUS serial ports, in addition to LPT1 and
a game port.  I have heard of Boca making such a beast.  I would also need
16550afn UARTs on the card.  I have an EISA bus...

Any help is appreciated. 
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From: Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Jim Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: HP LaserJet 4
Distribution: world
Date: 6 Nov 92 09:04:27 EST
Organization: Amiga BitSwap Central Dispatch

I saw my first LJ4 yesterday.  (On display, not operating at the time).

It appears to be a very nice printer as have all the previous HP LaserJets.
It does do true 600X600dpi and has built-in support for TrueType (35
built-in fonts?).  A PostScript option is available, but if you are using
Windows 3.1 and have no unusual needs, I doubt it is worth the extra cost. 


BTW, reading between the lines, I suspect some software will require a new
printer driver to output anything to this printer.  It does not appear to
be 100% backwards compatible with the LJ3's 300X300dpi output.  For most
users this probably won't be a problem and drivers should quickly appear
for just about any software.

Street price is projected to be around US$1400.

-- Via DLG Pro v0.995

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Organisation: European Space Operation Centre (E.S.O.C)
Date: Friday, 13 Nov 1992 11:23:00 CET
From: Karl Keyte <KKEYTE@ESOC.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: DOS & Unix together

If I have DOS on an ST-506 disk and Unix on a separate SCSI disk, how
could I boot Unix?  Won't DOS always be picked up?

Please answer directly to me: KKEYTE@ESOC.BITNET

Thanks,

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From: 00drhaskett@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Need Help Upgrading 286
Date: 12 Nov 92 20:57:32 GMT
Organization: Ball State University, Muncie, In - Univ. Computing Svc's

I have a Packard Bell 286 and want to upgrade to a 486SX.  What's the best
and cheapest way to do this?  Thanks in advance for helping me.  

Sincerely,
Dave Haskett
From: robl@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Rob Laddish)
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 00:49:41 GMT
Subject: Re: ATI Ultra Pro, G200 DX266V resolution/NI?
Organization: Division of the month club
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware, frederic@cs.unc.edu (Robin Fredericksen) writes:

>I recently received a Gatway 2000 DX2-66MHz system with their version of
>the ATI Ultra Pro video cards.  It was my understanding that the ATI UP
>would run 1280x1024 @ 60Hz NI, but after trying to get it to go interlaced
>(running the setup program, running the test programs) I finally called ATI.
>They said that the version of the card that I have does not go that hi, and
>that I would have to upgrade to a new (or additional? that was not clear)
>RAMDAC to get that performance.  I called Gateway tech support and they
>said that they did not have the upgrade available, and that I would have
>to pay for it.

I've got a faxed data sheet from ATI about the Ultra Pro and Plus, and the
1MB Pro is incapable of 1280x1024. The most it will do is 1024x768x256.
I also called Gateway, and was told that a new RAMDAC was needed with the
other memory, and that they didn't supply it. If you call ATI, please post
how much the update costs or email me.

Rob
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From: gaw2@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gang Wu)
Subject: Hitachi CD-ROM driver needed!!!
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 21:28:44 GMT


Hi! We have a Hitachi CD-ROM here in Barnard College computer center.
Unfortunately we don't have the software for it. Does anyone know where
can we get a driver for it? (the model number is CDR-1503s). If you do
or if you have it, please reply to me. Thanks in advance.

Gang

gaw2@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann)
Subject: Gateway Public.
Organization: Zeos International, Ltd
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 03:47:38 GMT

Gateway is still a privately held company from the research that I have
done. Anyone is welcome to comment otherwise. You may want to pose this
question to gateway@aol.com.
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From: pm2@aries.demon.co.uk (Paul Ma)
Subject: Recommendations for tape drive (for DOS, OS/2, Linux)
Distribution: world
Organization: Demon Internet Services
Reply-To: pm2@aries.demon.co.uk, pm2@doc.ic.ac.uk
X-Mailer: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.18)
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:42:20 +0000

Hi,

I am in the process of buying a tape drive for my system which has 2 hard
drives.  The first one is 104M, used by DOS (windows).  The second one is 340M,
shared by OS/2 and Linux.  I am planning to spend < US$400.  It's best if the
tape drive is supported in all the three OS, otherwise, it should at least be
supported in either OS/2 or Linux and capable of doing an image backup of the
hard disk used by the other os.  One of the problem is that I'm using a hard
disk cache controller, so a tape drive which requires accesss to a
conventional floppy disk controller probably won't work.  Oh, I don't need
very fast transfer rate, 3-5MB/min will do.

Thanks for any advice.

Paul.

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