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From: adhir@cygnus.umd.edu (Alok Dhir)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Did Gateway File For Chapter 11?
Date: 16 Oct 92 04:35:51 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

In article <9H4ksB3w165w@infopls.chi.il.us> greg@infopls.chi.il.us (Greg Clawson) writes:
>kehcheng@netcom.com (Keh-Cheng Chu) writes:
>
>> pjh@mccc.edu (P. J. Holsberg) writes:
>> 
>> >Subject says it all.
>> 
>> Yes, it did.  This was reported in September's Byte magazine.
>> In the same issue you can also read about the following recent
>> developments in the computing world:
>> 
>> a. Apple is coming out with its first IBM PC compatible machine
>>    before Christmas.
>> 
>> b. IBM is considering dropping OS/2 completely and is negotiating
>>    with Microsoft about Windows/NT licencing.
>> 
>> c. Unix is dead. 
>
>
>IBM dropping OS/2?!  (Your nuts, it's not going to drop it).
>
>And for your information; Unix is alive and well!  Window's maybe
>popular but when compared to Unix I laugh at Windoze!
>

er...I think he meant all that stuff sarcastically <snicker>, as a, you
know, joke...?

hee hee hee

Thanks for making it a heckuvalot funnier than it would have been if it 
wasn't for people like you...

hahaha


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From: lachlan@dmp.csiro.au (Lachlan Cranswick)
Subject: Re: Why is Maxtor 7213A so cheap???
Organization: CSIRO Division of Mineral Products, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 03:29:04 GMT

russest@ampex.com (Steve Russell) writes:

>>>It is noisy.  My first one was too noisy, so I was able to get a
>>>replacement from Maxtor.  It's also noisy, but not as bad as the first.
>>>It's just a constant high pitched irritating whir.  I've heard that
>>>there were problems with the early ones, my new one has a PsomethingBA
>>>number of 63.  I guess they didn't spend much money on development.
>>>
>>>Ken Neighbors
>>>wkn@leland.stanford.edu
>>
>>Actually, it's not supposed to be noisy.  According to Maxtor's literature,
>>the 7213 drive borrowed the mechanical parts of its LXT213 family (also
>>a 210 MB drive.  I have one, and it's the quietest drive I have ever had.)
>>and the electronics parts from its 7000 series drive.  Therefore, it's not
>>really a new drive, just a combination of the better parts of its two 
>>existing drive families.  On Maxtor's commercial, it claims that the 7213
>>drives have fewer mechanical parts than its competition and cost less to
>>manufacture.

>Noise is relative. I've found both Maxtors, 7213 and lxt200, to be extremely
>quiet drives. It should be noted that the lxt series is built from a machined
>casting and the 7213 is no where near as massive. you can barely hear
>the 7213 with the power supply fan running. you can't hear the lxt
>at all (normal office environment) and you got to kill the fan to hear
>it in a home environment.

>the old 7080at 84mb model tended to be a real screamer, however.

>-steve

I upgraded a PC to a 200 Meg Maxdor hard-disk for doing
search matching with various scientifc software.  It is very 
quiet such that you cannot tell if the PC has crashed or the
search is still going on (the hard-disk light is not connected)
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From: anders@tuborg.auc.dk (Anders Pedersen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Large Capacity Hard Disks
Date: 15 Oct 92 11:14:47 GMT
	<1992Oct15.033639.21810@dmp.csiro.au>
Organization: Aalborg University, Inst. of Electronic Systems

In article <1992Oct15.033639.21810@dmp.csiro.au> lachlan@dmp.csiro.au (Lachlan Cranswick) writes:

[...]
>   >1/  is it better to get two fair sized disks,(say
>   >    200 mb each) or to get one large 400-500mb disk.

[...]

>   Even though it might cost more, I would go for the large
>   hard-disk, rather than 2 small ones.  The reason is that
>   programs are going to get larger and in 1 or 2 years
>   you are going to want more space (anyone want to have
>   a raffle on how large Word for Windows 3 is going to be -
>   my guess is 30Meg).

[...]

>   Anyone disagree with this?

Not exactly disagree, but I think there's more to it than
that. If you're later planning to run unix (or any other
multitasking os), it's good to have several disks, for instance
one for swap, one for software and one for data. This holds
especially if the interface is SCSI, as SCSI enables the devices
to release the bus while they seek, so other devices can transfer
in the meantime.

Maybe MS windows would benefit from having the permanent swap file
on a separate disk - probably would. But otherwise, just buy one large
hd. It does reduce the wasted space, as L. Cranswick pointed out.


...guess I didn't really clarify anything?

--Anders.


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From: darrylo@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Darryl Okahata)
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 04:30:48 GMT
Subject: Re: aha-1542b & windows
Organization: Center for Primal Scream Therapy
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware, swaliff@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Steve Aliff) writes:

> What's the phone number of their BBS?

     The phone number of the Adaptec BBS is (408)-945-7727.

     -- Darryl Okahata
	Internet: darrylo@sr.hp.com

DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not
constitute the support, opinion or policy of Hewlett-Packard or of the
little green men that have been following him all day.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: gordv@inr.msk.su (Dmitry Gorelov)
Subject: HDD - controller problem
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 14:20:32 GMT
Reply-To: gordv@inr.msk.su
Organization: Institute for Nuclear Research, (Moscow/Troitsk) RAS

     Hi, Netters! I need help. Excuse me for some troubles. I have a problem
with the HDD or it's controller. I've got this problem more than year ago
after approximately 1/2 year normal work. The problem is: every day or two
there appears bad sectors on the surface and this errors appears always only
on 12-14 heads (last 3 heads of HDD). The hardware I have is:
	HDD - Maxtor, model XT-4380E;
	HDD controller - DTC6280-15TX (ESDI), Data Technology (QUME corp.)
This controller has 32K*8 Track buffer, but HDD has cylinder a little bit
larger: 36 sectors * 512 bytes/sector * 15 heads.

     Unfortunately I haven't any technical documentation on this disk and
just Installation Guide for controller. It seems be impossible to try to
change the controller just for test (and then - if the reason is in the
controller - to buy it ) - I haven't found any similar controller with my
collegues.

     By the way, there are interesting message in the ROM controller Disk
Format Utility: that this controller supports interleave 1:1 for 1) soft
sectored disks - always; 2) hard sectored disks (which is the Maxtor too)
with the bytes per sector greater than "541+ISG+2*PLO"! Maxtor HDD has 512
bytes per sector (36 sectors, 1224 cylinders, 15 heads). I don't know what
means "PLO" and "ISG" (last, may be, "intersector gap"?).

     If anybody had similar problems or knows what this problem is due to, help
me, please. If anybody has some technical documentation for this hardware
in proper form (for e-mail), I would ask you to send it me, please. Thank you
very much. My e-mail address is "gordv@inr.msk.su" or "beamlab@inr.msk.su".

				Sincerely yours, Dmitry V.Gorelov
From: dhw10@RUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (David H. Wang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Sony 1304S Monitor Problem
Date: 16 Oct 92 16:43:53 GMT
Reply-To: dhw10@RUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (David H. Wang)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

Hello,

  I have recently purchased a Sony 1304S Monitor and I love it.  But I
have noticed that there seems to be a line missing or maybe the line is
just thinner than the others near the center bottom of the screen.
  I have heard something about this on the net, but I can't recall the
exact details of it.
  Should I exchange this monitor for another or is this a common problem
of Trinitron tube Monitors?

Thanks,

David
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: boakley@fox.nstn.ns.ca (Bruce Oakley)
Subject: QUERY: I2C interface expansion card for PC available??
Organization: NSTN Network Operations Centre, Nova Scotia, Canada
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 13:43:57 GMT

The Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C, pronounced "I-squared-C") bus is
a serial communication system used for 8-bit microcomputers and
periphals.

I need a PC expansion card which provides I2C output.  I would
appreciate hearing from anyone who knows of such a device.

Thanks,

Bruce Oakley, Applied Microelectronics Institute, Halifax, NS, Canada
oakley@tinker.appliedmicro.ns.ca
From: thao@cse.uta.edu (Laly Thao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Converting 2400 to 9600
Date: 15 Oct 92 23:07:03 GMT
Article-I.D.: utagraph.1992Oct15.230703.22673
Organization: Computer Science Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington

My brother grabbed a text file off a BBS a while back that
explained how to remove the chipset off a 2400 and replace
it with chips for a 9600 baud modem, which will effectively
make the 2400 a 9600.  I'm just curious if anyone has 
tried this before.  If so, what was the cost and can it
be done with an external 1200 US Robotics?  BTW, the 1200
does have an INTEL chipset.

Hope to hear from someone. :-)

Thanks,
Laly

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From: myerholt@hplred.HP.COM (Carl Myerholtz)
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 23:42:14 GMT
Subject: Need ESIA 32-bit DMA card
Organization: Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto CA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware

I am in need of and EISA (posibbly ISA) bus card that can do 32-bit
(16-bit might be acceptable) wide DMA transfers at rates of a few
megatransfers/second. Any referrals would be greatly appreciated.  

Carl Myerholtz

myerholtz@hplabs
From: mts@wam.umd.edu ()
Subject: 15" monitor problems......
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 04:25:58 GMT

    Ok, we have all (I think) heard about the horrible convergence problems
and pin cusion problems (though I don't really know what either mean).  My 
question is how much would they really matter to someone such as me who only
wants the larger screen size for gif viewing and occassional image editing?
If I am used to a monitor that flickers even at 640x480x256, will I really
be troubled by the pin cusion problems using Windows or Os/2?  I don't have the
money or the need for a 17" monitor, but I could get a 15" for between $500-600.
Is the extra size noticable between a 14" and a 15".

Thanks.


Dave.
.
From: lobaugh@a.chem.upenn.edu (John Lobaugh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: IDE XT controller card
Date: 10 Oct 92 03:32:06 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <1992Oct9.192830.22037@unislc.uucp> mgc@unislc.uucp (Marc Christensen) writes:
>John Lobaugh (lobaugh@a.chem.upenn.edu) wrote:
>: Hi,
>: 
>: Any help that could be offered here would be appreciated. I just
>: bought a Seagate IDE 42 mbyte drive with XT IDE controller card (Junko,
>: an unfortunate name I know) for my DTK 1000 XT. I'm having problems 
>: installing it. I have tried all the possible jumper settings specified 

>Personaly I would tell the Dealer You got the Controller From that it won't
>Work in your Machine and return it.

Fine. 

>Then Get a regular IDE Controller for about $20 and a used AT or 386 Mother 
>Board you will get a HUGE increase in speed and save money.
>This Assumes: (Probably Incorrectly)
>You Paid $190+ for the XT IDE Controller (The Last Price I Saw)

Wrong I Paid 50$.

>You Bought it New and/or Can Return It.

YES

>You can find an AT Motherboard for < $100 (I'd LOVE to Get you 1 if you can't)
>You should Easily be Able to get a '386 board for < $200.00

>Another option would get a Surplus/Closeout 40-60 MFM/RLL Drive about $120.00

Wrong. Best Price I've Seen is 150$ for a used Hitachi MFM 40 Mbyte. 
JB Technoligies (Computer Shopper Aug. 1992 - price could be lower now)

>Or someone might answer your REAL question and you can use what you have got.

YES. BUT IT DEFINATELY WONT BE YOU.

>Marc Christensen

I got my IDE drive for 190 (yes that is too much) + 40$. Your scenario
has me buying a used AT board for 100$ + 20 for floppy controller + same for
IDE HD. SO I Spend 80$ more than I did above and have to put in a motherboard
to boot.
Sure I could of saved money and bought a used MFM drive but I wanted it NEW
and the new MFM kits seemed to about the same as IDE kits. 
My XT works fine. The Only Thing I use It for is To Log into The computers
At the Univ where I go to school and use it As a Dumb Terminal. Hey, I 
used this thing for a year without a hard drive. Why should I spend more?


-- 
"I believed what I was told, I thought it was a good life, 
I thought I was happy. Then I found something that changed 
it all..."  Anonymous, 2112  
John lobaugh@a.chem.upenn.edu
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From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.unix.bsd,comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Question on Diamond Clock Synthesizer
Date: 11 Oct 1992 15:41:01 GMT
Organization: CS Dept. Snakepit - Do Not Feed.
Distribution: inet
NNTP-Posting-Host: adder.cs.berkeley.edu

In article <Bvy0H3.Lwq@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
>In article <1992Oct11.045446.1020@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
>>"Batman" posted a message (id <4356bw@gotham.city>) disclosing a clock set
>>algorithm for Diamond.  Sorry I didn't save it, but it's possibly illegal
>>to distribute.  It may have been accidently archived somewhere.  It will
>
>It isn't illegal to distribute any more.  Diamond has claimed that the
>method for setting their dot clocks is protected by trade secret laws.
>Unfortuantely, in order for something to be a trade secret, it has to
>be just that -- secret.

And, also, I didn't think reverse-engineering was illegal in this
country.  After all, for distribution of a trade secret to be illegal
the distributor has to be under nondisclosure contract to the originator -
and you certainly don't sign anything like a contract when you buy
a Diamond card.

If "Batman" had contracted with Diamond to do a driver under the conditions
that he not release the clock set algorithm, then Diamond would
certainly have every right to go after him.  If he just discovered it
by looking at the driver, then their only weapon could be a patent -
and I do doubt that Diamond has patented their clock set algorithm.

Can any of the legal eagles out there correct or verify this reasoning?

c
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: cai@news.cis.ohio-state.edu (shuofeng cai)
Subject: 17" VGA Mono monitor recommendation wanted!
Organization: The Ohio State University Department of Computer and Information Science
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 13:42:01 GMT


Being tired of the high price and low quality of VGA Color monitors, I'm 
turning to VGA Mono monitors. I'm considering a large screen monitor: at
least 15",preferablly 17". The problem is I can't find any one larger than
14". Is there anywhere I can find one with at least 15"? Does anybody has
any kind of recommendation on this kind of monitor? Thanx in Advance.

Shuofeng Cai
cai@cis.ohio-state.osu
From: tld@moon.base.bellcore.com (Terry Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: PARITY ERROR ????  SYSTEM HALTED (help)
Date: 15 Oct 92 18:43:42 GMT
Reply-To: tld@cosmos.bellcore.com
Organization: Bellcore

In article <13OCT199223175315@deimos.ucc.umass.edu>, davidb@deimos.ucc.umass.edu (DAVIDB) writes:
|> Hello,
|> 
|> Has anyone ever encountered this error message:
|> 
|> PARITY ERROR ????
|> SYSTEM HALTED
|> 
|> followed by a system lockup?
|> 
|> Since my computer seems to be working properly, what are the chances
|> that this error was triggered by something other than a bad component?

   No chance.  You have a bad memory chip somewhere. 
    Parity error 1 = bad main memory (0-640K)
    Parity error 2 = bad expansion memory (641-XXXK)

    BTW - not sure if this mapping holds true on 386 machines; does
    hold on 8088/80286 machines...
|> 
|> Should I worry?
   
   Not particularly...  If you have Checkit, or some similar program
   that will perform memory diagnostics and *isolate* the bad chip...

|> 
|> David Besonen
|> "davidb@deimos.ucc.umass.edu"
|> 
|> P.S.
|>     my system is a 286-20MHz, with 4meg RAM (1meg 80ns DIPPs),   
|>     Chips & Technologies NEAT chipset, & 1991 AMI BIOS

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From: zheng@evy.ucsb.edu (Qi;Zheng)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: ATI Graphics Ultra or Diamond SpeedStar 24X
Date: 8 Oct 92 17:22:41 GMT
Organization: UCSB


I want to buy a video card. I have choice between
ATI Graphics Ultra and Diamond SpeedStar 24X.
Someone told me that the ATI one is faster but
it is not Hi-color (only upto 256) and the
Diamond one is slower but has 16.7m colors.
Is this true? Which one is better?  I need
your advise.  

Thank you.
From: sanjay@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Sanjay B Shah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Queer speed behavior
Date: 15 Oct 92 21:54:11 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


	This might sound strange, but here goes:

	I have a 386/33 PC clone.  Everything is working fine until
one day I switch on the computer and find it running *very* slowly.
There were several indicators that this was so:

	1]  The (3.712 MB) memory check at the beginning
	    of the boot went quite slow,

	2]  a pac-man based game (called cd-man) sets it's
	    initial speed setting based upon the speed of
	    the PC it's running on.  It's speed could be
	    set anywhere from 001 to approx. 100 units.
	    Before the speed problem of the PC, the game
	    used to set this speed at 008.  Now, the game
	    sets it to 59 (!) - probably to compensate for
	    reduced speed of the computer.


	Can anyone figure out what the reason for this could be?

	This is not the whole story.  A few days ago, the above problems
*disappeared*.  I have absolutely NO clue how this happened.  Everything
proceeds very quickly now.  Perplexing, isn't it :-).

	I've used Central Point's Anti-Virus program which does not detect
anything.

	Note:  On one occasion (before the speed problems), while booting
up, I received a message which said that one of the (hidden) system files was
missing (something like boot.cps ?).  I allowed the computer to automatically
make a new one.  Might this have had any thing to do with it?  Of course,
it wouldn't then explain why the computer is acting fine (for now).


	I hope someone has even the faintest idea about what happened. I
would be delighted to hear comments or thoughts on how this might have
occured.

	Thank you!

			A very confused netter,

				Sanjay

			sanjay@andromeda.rutgers.edu

[ I posted a problem I had with my mouse in the game 'Eye of the Beholder II'
  about 15 days ago.  I received only one reply since then, which didn't
  work.  If you would like to have a go at it too, email me; I will send you
  a copy of the post.  ]
From: wliu@zeus.calpoly.edu (Wen Hong Liu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Annoying humming noise when installed smartdrv
Date: 10 Oct 92 08:15:52 GMT
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo



The subject says it all.  If I install smartdrv.exe that comes with
Windows 3.1 my computer makes a continuous humming sound at the DOS prompt;
it doesn't make that noise if I am running a application.  The computer
does the same thing if I go to the DOS prompt in Windows in standard mode. 


Thanks in advance!


Wen Liu
wliu@nike.calpoly.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: smintz@sedona.intel.com (Stephen Mintz exp 11/92~)
Subject: Re: Chipsets: OPTI or SIS ? Which would you prefer ?
Originator: smintz@alamo
Organization: Intel Corporation
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 21:53:07 GMT


I have a 486/33 Opti, I can't seem to run RBGdemo1 or 2, and yes I have booted
clean, anyone else with this problem?
Stpehen
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: gilem@aix.rpi.edu (Michael R. Gile)
Subject: Re: Gateway's new local bus video
Keywords: gateway video ati
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 14:22:22 GMT

>
>			ATI 	Diamond		Integ.		ATI Ultra Pro
>			Ultra	24x		system		(1mb-std DAC)
>
>640x480			256	16.7M		256		65,500
>800x600			256	65,500		256		65,500
>1024x768		256	256		256		256
>1280x1024,interlaced	NOT!	16		16		16 N/A till Dec
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^   ^^^^                                    ^^^^^^^^^^ 
>
>-- Has anyone heard of GW's integrated video system.
>-- My sales rep also said that I could upgrade to 2 mb VRAM but only from ATI
>
>
>dick sidbury
>Department of Computing Sciences
>University of Scranton
>sidbury@jaguar.uofs.edu

I don't think this is right.  First of all, the ATI Ultra can do 1280x1024x16.
Does gateway use a special card?  With 1.5 mb of ram, there is an ATI ultra
that can do 1280x1024x256 I believe.  Second, the ATI Ultra Pro is capable of
1280x1024 NON-INTERLACED (unlike the diamond 24x).  
With additional vram, as above, it should also do 1280x1024x256

Mike
gilem@rpi.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware