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From: ry01@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (ROBERT YUNG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Sony Mini CD or Philips DCC format for computer DATA?
Date: 21 Dec 92 17:45:52 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <BzEwGp.766@encore.com>, mpalmer@encore.com (Mike Palmer) writes:
><FWR100@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>
>>In article <IBE1109.92Dec16134212@etbsun1.draper.com>, ibe1109@draper.com (Ira
>>Ekhaus) says:
>>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>my local audio store says that the new Sony miniCD holds 74 minutes
>>>of stereo audio and can be RECORDED onto.
>>>
>>>Now for 16 bit stereo  audio without compression that's
>>>74*60*44100*2*2 =    783 216 000
>>>take into account compression factor of (~10) and we're
>>>still talking over 70 Mbytes with a respectable transer rate.
>>>The DCC's numbers are probably pretty similar.
>>>
>>>Does anyone know of plans to use this format as a backup or
>>>distribution format for computer data?
>>>It seems like a good idea, what's up?
>
>>First, as far as I know, _no_ compression is used on audio CD's.  It's really
>>700+ MB.   Since current audio CD's are approximately as long and CD-ROMs hold
>>620+ MB formatted, these numbers seem about right.
>
>>I haven't heard any announcements for a computer product usind the mini-CDs
>>but I'd be shocked if this isn't on the shelves by next Christmas.  The prices
>>I've heard were (correct me if I'm wrong) $750 for the the recorder/player and
>>$16 per disk.  If you're using this with a computer, you can remove the
>>digitizing equipment (44KHz 16 bit stereo ADC) and replace it with a SCSI
>>interface.   Add $250 because it's a computer product, so for $1000 you've got
>>a 600MB storage device.  That's $1.66/MB for the first 600MB, 2.6 cents per MB
>>afterwards.
>
>The audio MD is compressed quite a bit, so I imagine there's only room on the
>disk for perhaps 100Mb of data, but still 100Mb for $16 isn't bad.
>
I don't think there is any compression on MDs or DCCs. I read that they use
stuff like sound masking to throw away 75% of the data. A 3.5" flopical only
holds 21mb. I guess a 2.5" would hold much less.

BTW, would it take 74 minutes to read off 650mb of data from a cdrom at
standard cdrom speeds? And do CDroms have the same data correction as normal
cds? Thanks!
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ravalent@mothra.syr.EDU (Bob Valentine)
Subject: Re: Mac emulator board.
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 23:12:06 EST

In article <18DEC199221571993@rosie.uh.edu> mece1us@rosie.uh.edu writes:
>I heard that there is a Mac emulator borad for PC which requires a Mac Plus ROM.
>Does anybody know the name of that board? Have anybody used it? Where can I 
>find article about it?
>Thank You.

  If you're refering to the board for the IBM that allows it to
emulate, run, and write MAC stuff, I have the papers from the company
that sells/manufactures them.  I've never used it, but it looks
promising.    What do you want to know?


                      -->   Bob Valentine  <--  
                  --> ravalent@mailbox.syr.edu <--  

    

    

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: bampf@iastate.edu (TC)
Subject: help on same-same day shipping companies
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 03:14:38 GMT


The company I ordered my 486 from awhile back is swamped with holiday orders,
and meanwhile, I need a system ASAP for work.  I will probably need to cancel
my order and order from a same-day shipping company.  Anyone have any
reccomendations?   
 
Zeos costs run too steep for my budget.  Occidental is an alternative, but I
know nothing good or bad about them, one way or the other.  Does anyone have
any reccommendations for Occidental or any other same-day shipping company?
Though situations demand that I get a system quickly, I also find reliability
a high priority.
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From: hudson@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Hudson Leighton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: "Windoze" slow? Naah...Re: pc and mac: was RE: 486 and mac benchmarks
Date: 25 Dec 92 19:45:21 GMT
Organization: People-Net [pnet51], Minneapolis, MN.

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Subject: HD upgrade PS/1
From: <NU185650@NDSUVM1.BITNET>
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 16:43:10 CST
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computer Network

I would like to upgrade the HD on my 2121 G42 386SX IBM computer.  I'd
appreciate info on sources, brands, and prices.  I'd like around 100 MB,
but I'd like to see prices on other sizes.  But probably no larger than
220 MB.

Will the old 40 MB drive fit in my Toshiba 1200 HB Laptop?  I think the IBM
drive is a half height 3.5 inch Maxtor brand.
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From: jdoll@cup.portal.com (Joe - Doll)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Catalog of Hard-to-Find PC Enhancements (Repost)
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 20:22:24 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: usa

"The Catalog of Personal Computing Tools for Engineers and Scien-
tists" lists hardware cards and application software packages for 
PC/XT/AT/PS/2 class machines.  Focus is on engineering and scien-
tific applications of PCs, such as data acquisition/control, 
design automation, and data analysis and presentation.  
  
If you would like a free copy, reply with your (U. S. Postal) 
mailing address.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: clldomps@cs.ruu.nl (Louis van Dompselaar)
Subject: Re: Seagate ST-225
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 11:02:12 GMT
Organization: Utrecht University, Dept. of Computer Science

In <1992Dec18.033034.11802@news2.cis.umn.edu> avatar@wings.micro.umn.edu (Timothy Fay) writes:

>Sam. H.K. Chiang (chiang@cs.uiuc.edu) wrote:
>>
>>The ST225 I got never have problems for three years.
>
>I have an ST225 in my XT clone that I've used _heavily_ since 1987 (and
>it was a year or two old when I got it).  The drive crashed once in 1988
>(when I accidentally overwrote track 0).  I did a low-level reformat then,
>and haven't had any problems with it since.
>
I've been using one too for over a year now. Works okay, though it
doesn't support all the SCSI commands it should (you can't, for instance,
use the 'check drive' function in Commodore's SCSI util-thing)

Louis
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.periphs.scsi,comp.windows.ms
From: mulvey@blurt.oswego.edu (Allen Mulvey, SUNY, Oswego, NY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: changing computer case
Date: 21 Dec 92 17:45:59 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: SUNY College at Oswego, Oswego, NY

In article <EDWONG.92Dec19134355@acs.nntp-read.bu.edu>, edwong@acs.nntp-read.bu.edu (Edward Wong) writes:
> Has anyone encounter any trouble when trying to move the motherboard from a
> desktop case to a tower case?  How about the LEDs?  

Most tower cases I've seen seem to have mounts for just about any kind of 
motherboard. (Except low profile desktop units which don't seem to have any 
standard configuration.) They also have long leads on the LEDs. These have 
no standard color code so you may have to try them both ways to get the 
polarity right. reverse polarity doesn't seem to hurt them - they just 
don't light.

Good luck.

			Allen Mulvey
			mulvey@blurt.oswego.edu
From: paul@svpal4.unh.edu (Paul Secinaro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Gateway 486 simm configurations
Date: 30 Dec 1992 22:18:00 GMT
Organization: Synthetic Vision and Pattern Analysis Lab, University of New Hampshire
NNTP-Posting-Host: svpal4.unh.edu

In article <92364.174405JXS118@psuvm.psu.edu> Jeff Siegel <JXS118@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:

>Gateway is selling their 486 systems with 8 meg of ram. The salesperson
>claims that the machines are shipped with two 4 Meg simms. Now given that
>a simm is 8 data bits and a parity bit, does this mean that the
>micronics motherboards gateway is using use only 16-bit access to the
>main memory? I always thought that simms had to be added in multiples of 4
>to have a 32-bit wide main memory.


SIMMS have to be added in such a way that they are always 32-bits wide (or 
36 if you count parity).  For 9-bit SIMMS, this means you have to use 
multiples of four.

But the Micronics motherboards in the new Gateways use 36-bit SIMMS.  
Plug in one SIMM, and bingo, you have 4MB of memory (or 1MegaWord, where 
a word is 32 bits wide).



>
>I know a person who bought one of these systems with 8 Meg of Ram.
>Windows 3.1 won't let him turn on the "32-bit disk access" option. Is
>this related?
>

This usually means that Windows did not detect a 100% WD-1003 compatible 
disk controller.  Only certain controllers are allowed to use 32-bit disk 
access.  My system, for example, has a SCSI controller and Windows won't 
allow me to use 32-bit access.


--
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Synthetic Vision and Pattern Analysis Lab
EE Dept., University of New Hampshire
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: stud13@cc4.kuleuven.ac.be (Wim Coekaerts)
Distribution: world
Date: Monday, 21 Dec 1992 14:43:50 +01
Organization: K.U.Leuven - Academic Computing Center
Subject: 387/33 (IIT) with Amd386/40

Well,

Can anybody tell me whether it's possible to put a 33Mhz Coproc.
on my board ? It's a 386/40. The reason why is that the 33Mhz
version costs me half of what a 40Mhz version costs....

Just curious whether it can take the 'heat' ???

Please lemme know.
thnx
Wim
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
Subject: Re: Crystal Scan vs. MAG MX15F - and - Alternatatives to Anykey Keyboard
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 21:57:13 GMT

In <1hcprpINNi38@crcnis1.unl.edu> price@helios.unl.edu (Chad  Price) writes:

>friedman@starbase.trincoll.edu (Mark A. Friedman) writes:

>>The Anykey keyboard does not feel solid to me.  I prefer a heavier
>>(metallic) keyboard and find the Anykey to have a cheap plastic feel.
>>Can someone recommend a brand of keyboard or a specific keyboard to
>>look at?

>I've used all sorts of keyboards over the years. My favorites have been (in no
>particular order), Northgate keyboards, older Zenith keyboards (say pre 1990),
>and the keyboard on the Dell I got at work this year. These all have a firm
>bottom to the keystroke, medium key pressure, and no electronic click.

 I like the Nortgate keyboards myself.  Built good, and provide nice
positive feedback.  Also like that you can swap the Ctrl key to where it
should be, on the left center.

 As far as other keyboards goes.  The ones on the Dell are pretty good.  One
of my all time favorites is the IBM PC/AT keyboard.  They still come on the
PS/2 and PS/Valuepoint series.  Lexmark now sells these seperately.

 My least favorite, tho, has got to be the old Zenith keyboards pre 1990.
Sorry, but we've got about 20 of them here in our lab, and at least a
quarter of them have something wrong with them.  There is also no feedback
in the keys, they just go clunk.  In truth my opinion is all Zenith computer
equipment pre-Bull days was junk.  We've just got too much of the stuff here
sitting with problems.




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                                   Iowa State University
From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
Subject: Re: Viewsonic 6FS vs. NEC 3FGx
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:38:18 GMT

In <1992Dec22.232434.1@vms.ucc.okstate.edu> v923137@vms.ucc.okstate.edu writes:

>With the Viewsonic, you can adjust the display to extent to the edges of the
>glass, eliminating any borders.

 Is this useful?  I've done this on other monitors and the display distorts
so bad out near the edge that it eliminates the usefulness of a "flatscreen".

>>  
>> Anyways, I'm planning to buy the NEC 5fg.  I believe it can do 
>> 1280x1024 at 74Hz NI.  Is this true?  It costs about $1800 

>According to the Jan. issue of Computer Shopper, in the USA Flex ad on
>page 977, the NEC 5FG can do 1280x1024 NI @ 60Hz, not 74Hz.  The horiz. scan
>rate is 135KHz, which should -theoretically- provide adequate bandwidth to
>do that mode at 74Hz or even more, but they don't advertise it that way.
>USA Flex sells the monitor for $1,249, and I'm sure someone has a better price
>than that (probably $25-50 less if you looked hard).

 According to the NEC 5FG Manual:

! A wide range of graphics standards is supported by the MultiSync FG
! monitor including:
! VGA at 640x480  60 and 72 Hz
! SuperVGA at 800x600  56, 60 and 72 Hz
! MAC II at 640x480  67Hz
! 8514/A at 1024x768  Interlaced 87 Hz
! XGA at 1024x768  Interlaced 87 Hz
! 1024x768  Non-interlaced at 60 and 70 Hz
! Mac II at 1152x870 (special cable required)
! 1152x900  66 and 76 Hz (special cable required)
! 1280x1024 60, 70 and 74 Hz
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^

 When looking for specs in a magazine like Computer Shopper it is best to
check 20 ads and find the average.  They're usually all wrong.

 $1249 is a fairly good price.

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sheldon@iastate.edu                Steve Sheldon
Project Vincent                    ICSS Resource Unit
SCO ODT, Arc/Info, Atlas GIS       2142 Agronomy Hall
                                   Iowa State University
From: hardgrov@pilot.njin.net (Roy Hardgrove)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Can SCSI Transfer Rate be Increased??????
Date: 22 Dec 92 22:59:17 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


Hello,

Currenly I am using a Future Domain 1660 with a Rodime 3259T and am
obtaining XFER rates of about 860KB/s.  This is not why I chose SCSI.
I would like to increase the XFER value and would like a suggestion as
to how this may be accomplished.  I have a very knowlegeable friend who
informed me that I would receive little or no performance boost by
purchasing another mgfs. controller.  His stipulation is that the only
way that  I  would receive any performance boost is by purchasing
another SCSI drive that supports a higher RPM rate.  Is this true?
Am I forever stuck with this IDE like transfer rate, unless I spend
the bucks for another drive?  Any insights you can provide will be
appreciated.


Please send e-mail replys to me directly rather than posting. 

Merry Christmas and Thanks,

Roy F. Hardgrove
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.next.advocacy
From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
Subject: Re: AMD rubbish????
Reply-To: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 08:09:52 GMT

In article <WAYNE.92Dec28191841@backbone.uucp> wayne@backbone.uucp (Wayne  
Schlitt) writes:
> In article <BzMHBq.JxB@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>  
ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:

> > The reason is that the Cyrix part isn't a true 486. It does use the 
> > 486 instruction set (at least some of it) but is really a drop-in 
> > part for 386 motherboards.

> There was just a fairly long discussion in a few news groups on
> whether the Cyrix chip is a "true" 486 or not and I have come to the
> following conclusions:
> 
> 1)  The Cyrix chip implements all new instructions and all new cpu
>     flags that the intel 486 implements.
> 
> 2)  This like chip pin-outs, bus widths, cache sizes and
>     organizations, number of chips and support of floating point are
>     usually considered "implementation details".  What instructions
>     (especially user mode instructions) the chip implements is what
>     determines the "cpu architecture".  
> 
>     The fact that the 386SX has a smaller bus than a 386DX doesn't
>     mean it isn't a "real" 386.  The same goes for the pin differences
>     between a 486DX and a 487DX.  Likewise, the IBM "blue lightning"
>     486DX-99 is said to have a larger cache, this doesn't mean it isn't
>     a 486.
> 
> 
> 3)  NeXTStep is said to not run on a Cyrix chip.  No other software
>     has been shown not to work on the Cyrix chip, and no one knows why
>     NeXT can't get NeXTStep to run on it.

Perhaps because the NeXTstep 486 port was paid for by Intel?  It's
pretty easy to speculate they would have specified that the port
only work with the "Real Thing"...

--
Nathan Janette
PPP link from hilbert.csb.yale.edu

Please reply to: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (NeXT)
From: mulvey@blurt.oswego.edu (Allen Mulvey, SUNY, Oswego, NY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: CANNOT FIND DRIVE D:
Date: 24 Dec 92 00:37:09 GMT
Organization: SUNY College at Oswego, Oswego, NY

In article <1992Dec23.063459.8105@phcomgw.seri.philips.nl>, klomp@nlsce1.seri.philips.nl (Ernst Klomp) writes:
> I recently installed a second harddisk. But lately I get the next problem:
> "Cannot find drive d:". The only thing to do is reset (and data is lost). 
> The second harddisk is a SEAGATE ST3144 (130 M) and installed as a slave (IDE). Both disks are known in the BIOS (AMI) as user types. If I recall corectly,
> there have been similar problems put on the net, but I don't have the solutions
> for this problems. Can somebody help me with this NUISANCE.

I had a similar problem with AMI BIOS. Setting the scratch RAM option to 2 
resolved the problem. Apparently setting 1 does not allocate enough RAM for 
two drive descriptors and the second is periodically overwritten.

			Allen Mulvey
			mulvey@blurt.oswego.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith)
Subject: Re: Will Windows crawl on my system?
Organization: The John P. Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 00:20:56 GMT

In article <1ho95uINNfb7@hpscit.sc.hp.com> matthias@nsr.hp.com (Matthias Kamm) writes:
>I know AMD released a 20Mhz version of the 286, but a 25Mhz!?
>Is that a new release?
>
>For a while I ran windows on my 286-12 just fine. Switching
>back and forth between DOS and windows was a killer, though...

286-20's have been available since the summer of 1989.  I have watched the
trend of the dissapearing 286 as advertised by vendors in computer shopper.
Many of those vendors chose to cut their 286 supply at 12 or 16 mhz, and
some (at least half) have dropped 286's altogether, but it's been a slow
trend.  I think it's obvious that they'd rather sell 386's because they
make more money on it.  Of the vendors that sell 286 motherboards, maybe
25% sell 20 mhz boards, and maybe 5% sell 25 mhz boards.  I've never seen
any of those vendors sell a 286-25 SYSTEM, and certainly have never seen
any local computer stores sell a 286-25 system either.  My thinking is
that a 286-25 system would conflict power-price wise in a computer store's
computer lineup, so they chose to not carry it in favor with slower 386-sx's.

Oh, my 286-25 is about 1.5-2 years old, and it has a Harris 286-25
chip.  Now why nobody makes (or made) faster 286's with caching, I'll
never know, but IMHO it's not because they wouldn't have been a good
alternative to the 386's of the day.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.laptops
From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
Subject: Re: Backup Tape Units
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 20:39:16 GMT

In <C038r6.8yu@news.cso.uiuc.edu> lawriel@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (Linda Lawrie) writes:


>Does anyone have any experience with either the Colorado Memory
>Systems Trakker or the Microsolutions Backpack drives?

 I've used several Microsolutions Backpack drives.  I have one now
formatting a tape.

>These are basically geared to portable/notebook systems being driven
>from the parallel port.  

 Well, I suppose.  We use it on our desktop machines.  That is we share it
between several desktop machines.  Since one only does backups once a week
or so, it works well.

>If you have experience, are these a lot slower than normal
>tape backup units?

 I guess I don't have a lot of experience with "normal" backup units. 

 My experience with it has been it gives about 1 Meg/min backup speed when
writing information with verify on.  And it gives about 3 Meg/min backup
speed when reading from the tape.

 I feel the writes are slow.  CP Backup writes to floppies faster.
But the convinience is well worth it.

 We have been having some problems with our drive.  I'm not sure if the
drive is bad or what.  But it doesn't seem to like it when we make a tape,
move the tape backup to a different computer and try to read it back.

 Sometimes it works, other times it doesn't.  I'm suspecting that it's
actually a problem with the computers printer port right now.


 Otherwise my supervisor has one of the older Microsolution backpack's
hooked up to his 486/33 at home.  He's never had a problem with it.
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