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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Gravis 486 & programs
From: genyjf@lure.latrobe.edu.au
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 12:42:13 GMT
Organization: VAX Cluster, Computer Centre, La Trobe University 

Hi, Me again. I know I didn't write back to most of you  last time but I need
help again. I didn't write back cause I got to many answers. Ok I recently got 
a 486sx-33 with a opti motherboard (I think) I had a gravis-pc-gamepad and It 
was my favorite possesion. For some reason it wont work with some games (alot
of them Apogees sorry to say) It wont work properly with Wolfenstein or 
Commander Keen. I have the registered version of both these games and needless
to say am pretty pissed. It works with some games but not all. The only game
that it works on (that I can remember) is Prince of persia. Has any one else
had this problem or can anyone from gravis or Apogee/ID help me. Please help
because I love it so much. Can anyone if not help give me the email address of
any gravis personel. I live in Australia so I havent written to them yet. Can 
Somebody please help meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

Andrew,

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PS-I have a Sound Galaxy BX. Does that matter?

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: wcn@cs.brown.edu (Wen-Chun Ni)
Subject: Re: Ulrastore 34f Local bus controller
Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 15:02:28 GMT

In article <1992Dec25.081941.15205@lucid.com> lnz@lucid.com (Leonard N. Zubkoff) writes:
>In article <78806@hydra.gatech.EDU> ccasted@prism.gatech.EDU (Edward Deering Boykin) writes:
>
>   I just found out that Gateway 2000 is offering the Ultrastore 34F Local Bus
>   SCSI controller for $215.00. Is this a good price? What are the specs on the
>   card? Is it scsi-1 and scsi-2? I tried gateway but as usual their lines
>   were real busy and I thought I'de ty here. Anyone with any info please e-mail
>   me. Thanks ahead of time.
>
>I just chatted with the folks at UltraStor a couple of days ago regarding their
>products.  According to them, the 34F is a non-caching VL-BUS SCSI controller
>that supports SCSI-1, SCSI-2, and Fast SCSI at up to 10mb/sec.

Isn't Ultrastore 14F claiming to be 10mb/s? I saw Hard Driver
International's ads about this. So what's the difference between the ISA
version and the VL-bus version?


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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: "Reconditioned" notebook PCs...
Date: 22 Dec 92 17:04:28 GMT
Organization: Indiana University

In article <1992Dec21.183059.20371@news.nd.edu> fdeck@vyasa.helios.nd.edu (francis deck) writes:

>I've seen some ads for "reconditioned" notebook PCs, at low
>price.  I realize that these are not brand-new machines, and
>that there is probably some risk, but the prices are quite
>attractive.  My question is:  To what extent are these PCs
>reconditioned?  Are they ones which were returned for repair
>and repaired, or bought used and cleaned up, or what?

How would any of us know without your telling us where you saw
these ads? What brand were they? What model? Who's selling them?

This is like saying "I've seen some ads for reconditioned VW
Beetles. What do they mean by "reconditioned?""


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From: frederic@vivaldi.cs.unc.edu (Robin Fredericksen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: basic video card benchmarks?
Keywords: cheap cards
Date: 21 Dec 92 17:10:11 GMT

Does anyone have a list of benchmarks for the inexpensive
video cards?  My brother has a Trident 1Mb video card
right now and wants to speed up his system, but mostly
for computer games outside of Windows.  His funds are
limited so we want to look at price/performance for the
lower end cards.  If you have benchmarks that are for
DOS/games (non-windows) that would be great, but I
am sure that even a list of Windows benchmarks would
do fine.

Please email me (posting is ok, but I am at home today)
at  frederic@cs.unc.edu

Thanks in advance,
Eric Fredericksen
frederic@cs.unc.edu

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: tovell@epcot.spdc.ti.com (Nick Tovell)
Subject: Re: 486SLC/25 (was 486DLC/33)
Keywords: Priam
Organization: TI Semiconductor Process and Design Center
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 20:25:19 GMT

I've just been offered a used Priam 638 EsDI 329Mb drive for a very good price.
I understand Priam are out of business and the drive has zero documentation.
I've located the cyl/head etc info, but have drawn a blank on the DIP switch
settings on the drive electronics and how to set termination resistors. Can 
anyone help?
From: dave@frackit.UUCP (Dave Ratcliffe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: I'm sick of off-white computers!
Date: 24 Dec 92 04:09:01 GMT
Organization: Data Factory Services, Harrisburg, Pa.

In article <MORGAN.92Dec19145357@dl5000.bc.edu>, morgan@dl5000.bc.edu (Morgan Stair) writes:
> 
>    >        So in short, could someone humor me and let me know
>    >if most PC dealers can supply different "colored" systems.
>    >I'd really appreciate the information.
> 
>    Nothing stopping you from getting a can of paint and a brush and
>    putting on your own designer color. :-) I'd suggest rust-o-leum in
>    heat resistant mix ....
> 
> Airbrushed computer cases.  What a concept.  But seriously, if you
> want a new case that bad, order one for $75 in computer shopper.  I
> remember seeing an add with about 50 different cases.  You ought to be
> able to find one somewhere.  I've seen black cases at computer shows.

Like the original poster I was SICK of the beige drek that EVERYONE
seems to be selling. When I was ready to start building my new Unix
tower though there was damn little else available and I was resigned to
being forced into buying yet another PCPCC (Politically Correct Personal
Computer Cabinet :) ). 

Then I went to a hamfest with my pocket full of $$$$ ready to pick up
said yucky beige horror when I spooted a sleek BLACK tower case.  Room
for all my drives, smoked plastic window over the exposed bays, plenty
of breathing space for the new mother board, DAMN! It was very nearly a
religious experience.  I bought the beast after finding out it was the
ONLY one they had ("We brought 3 and the other 2 went before we were
completely unpacked").  So, down went my folding green and I now have
this nice gleaming black cabinet standing near the old cheesy beige
tower that will soon be moved from Unix to DOS. 

MORAL: The non-beige cabinets ARE out there but you'll pay for the
desire to break from the pack. Mine was about $40 more than a comparable
beige tower (the salesman said the price was for the "conductive
paint".... riiiiiight). 

Now, about those damn GREEN mother boards........ :)

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: Ati Ultra Pro question
Keywords: ati ultra pro
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:45:39 GMT

In article <jensen.724352224@schulz> jensen@schulz.nosc.mil (Layne Jensen) writes:

>I was having this same problem (Windows crashing after ~10 minutes) until
>I stopped using the "Explosiv" screen saver.  I was loading it in
>autoexec.bat, and as long as I didn't start up Windows the machine was fine.
>But a few minutes after loading windows it would hang, i.e., the mouse pointer
>would be active, but there was no response from the mouse buttons or the
>keyboard.  Since I removed "Explosiv" it has not happened.  I am now using the
>screen saver that came with Windows, with no problems.  (Too bad, Explosiv
>is nice.)

Hmmmm

lets get this straight. You are running a DOS screen saver before 
firing up Windows? Does it actually work? Use Screen Peace or the 
built-in saver instead. 

Explosiv does have a reputation for being misbehaved even if you 
aren't running Windows on top of it.




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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: jon@sparcplug.iupui.edu (Jon Burgoyne)
Subject: Info on Viewsonic 1 or 6
Reply-To: jon@cnc.iupui.edu
Organization: Purdue University - School of Engr. and Tech.
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 17:02:18 GMT

Seeking the Wisdom of the Net,

I am looking for information on ViewSonic 1 and 6 Monitors.  Schematics,
service info, anything.

Any info appreciated, please e-mail response...

Jon Burgoyne
Purdue University - Indianapolis
jon@cnc.iupui.edu
From: Curt.Shehow@p33.f330.n3603.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Curt Shehow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: The maxtor 213 meg drive is NOT 213 megs!
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 16:00:48 PDT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:3603/330.33 - Computer Mechanic, Largo FL

 >> I thought most manufacturers put down the UNformatted capacity of the
 >> drive? Is the Quantum 240LPS really a 240MB drive, by the way?

 245 actually.
             Cs.


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From: ab245@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Sam Latonia)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: RODINE 3095 Jumper settins needed!
Date: 23 Dec 1992 13:37:46 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu


I need to know the jumper settings for my RODINE MDL.3095 IDE 80MB
hd to set it up as the slave drive. Does any one know them???
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
Subject: Re: RFD: how about comp.sys.ibm.pc.advocacy?
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 04:00:44 GMT

In <1992Dec22.022437.10504@itsmail1.hamilton.edu> jmalloy@itsmail1.hamilton.edu (Joseph T. Malloy) writes:

>In article <1h5k1sINNj9k@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> nan@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Nan Zou) writes:
>>I've been away from the net for a couple of months now, got tangled up
>>with school and finals, and when I came back, I see page after page of
>>flame wars in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.  And I got to thinking: isn't it
>>about time to create a comp.sys.ibm.pc.advocacy?  So that all the flames
>>and debates can go there and leave c.s.i.p.hardware for people who
>>wish to discuss hardware topics.  People may think an advocacy group
>>will itself generate more flames, while this may be true, at least it'll
>>keep the religious flame wars from spilling over to the other groups.
>>
>>
>>-- Nan

 Bah! These advocacy groups do absolutely no good.  You still get just as
many flame wars in the regular .misc groups as ever, the only difference
is that they're increased in size by the stupid:

 'Take this to advocacy you bonehead'

 messages.  For an example of the futility of this take a look at the
comp.sys.amiga heirarchy.

 If I see another advocacy group up for vote, I'm voting against it.



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: syny@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (R Craig Stevenson)
Subject: soundblaster v1.0 vs. v1.5
Organization: Cornell Information Technologies
Date: 23 Dec 92 17:23:58 GMT

Can anybody quickly tell me what the difference between the older
soundblaster 1.0 board and the newer version 1.5 board is?

One person told me that the older boards would freeze with some
programs and another person told me that the freezing up problem was
related to jumper settings and not the hardware.  Any insights greatly
appreciated.

-- Craig
From: 6500boo@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (William Bushing)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Conner 170 meg drives any good?
Date: 3 Jan 93 02:46:42 GMT
Distribution: comp

I was looking at the Maxtor 7213A as the my next hard drive in
a new system. The Conner 170 meg is now being offered instead
by my vendor. Any comments on this drive, especially in comparison
to the Maxtor? thanks in advance.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: bampf@iastate.edu (TC)
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: PC's vs. Mac's
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 21:30:01 GMT


Regarding the whole computer flamewar stuff that sprouts through this group:
    For many users, especially those in college, getting a computer and all
related apparatus can be an investment as big in scale as getting a used car.  If someone on a limited budget has spent four digit dollar amounts on a system,
and you try to tell them how inferior their system is, it isn't going to be an
argument that they are going to listen to very well.  (Unless, of course, they bought their computer at a store that has a thirty day money back guarantee, and those thirty days haven't haven't been used up yet.)
    I remember when I got my first PC-compatible... for all intents and purposes, Acme Inc. would have sold me a more reliable computer (even if the Acme computer would have had a dynamite detonator attached to the RETURN key.)  Though I heard warnings from people on what a lemon this machine was, I tried to rationalize away these arguments to come up with a justification to spending x number of dollars on the computer.  It was not until I realized that the store would issue me a refund and I had my accoun



t credited that I was able to admit that that particular PC was a piece of ****.
    Before you start into a Mac vs. PC or PC vs Amiga or Amiga vs. PC or PC vs. Mac vs. Amiga argument with an owner of another machine, find out the following information:
    1. Is it too late for the person to return their machine from where it came
       from?
    2. Is this a machine that they have to keep for a long time?  (Due to cost, etc.)
    If you have answered 'yes' to either of the above questions, stop your flamewar right then and there. :-)
From: mulvey@blurt.oswego.edu (Allen Mulvey, SUNY, Oswego, NY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: COMTRADE (The Company)
Date: 29 Dec 92 18:19:01 GMT
Organization: SUNY College at Oswego, Oswego, NY

In article <1992Dec24.223020.22195@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>, zuniga@loligo.cc.fsu.edu (Ralph Zuniga (FREAC/CAR)) writes:
> Anyone know anything about this company?? I'm looking at their
> machines and they look good. But I'm wondering about any 
> customer complaints, etc. Has anyone had any dealings with this
> company?? Does anyone have a Comtrade computer?? If so, are you
> satisfied with it??? Thank you.

I have purchased three computers from them. All seem to be very well made, 
TEAC floppies, OPTI or SIS motherboards, etc. One of my units has 
been serving 24 hrs per day as a file server since last spring with no 
problems on any unit. A sales rep names Kim was very helpful, even when I 
initially called their 800 number for comparative information. I called 
their tech support once and got right through - I had a question about a 
device driver or something, I don't recall the details.

			Allen Mulvey
			mulvey@blurt.oswego.edu
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From: mmigdol@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (michael a migdol)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Looking for TP 6.0-compatable Koala pad driver
Date: 30 Dec 92 01:24:26 GMT
Reply-To: mmigdol@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (michael a migdol)
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Originator: mmigdol@grumpy.cc.utexas.edu


     Believe it or not, my boss is still using a Koala pad for her 
psychoacoustic experiments. (A lot of her subjects are elderly, and find the
Koala pad easier to use than a mouse; in addition, we can use the Koala AND
a mouse at the same time...)  Having said that, it's probably not too 
suprising that she's only recently upgraded to Turbo Pascal 6.0 (from *3.0*!!!)
We haven't had much trouble converting most of the drivers we use to 
6.0, but the Koala driver that we've got uses a binary file for some of its
internal routines, and I'm having trouble interfacing it correctly in Turbo
6.0. The binary consists of a small jump table, 5 procedures/functions, and
apparently some utility code at the end. My original try was to 
1: Disassemble the binary file
2: Place everything but the jump table in an asm statement in a procedure
   with the header:
   PROCEDURE Internal_Koala(which : Integer);
3: Whenever one of the 5 procedures/functions is called in the driver, replace
   with a call to Internal_Koala and the approiate function/procedure number.
4: At the start of the Internal_Koala routine, put a CASE statement of which
   to GOTO to the appropriate part of the assembly code.  

This failed. I'm thinking it's because the assembly code is finding more on
the stack than it expected (from the call to Internal Koala.) I tried prefacing
each GOTO in the CASE statement with : asm POP AX; POP AX; end;  to get
rid of which and one address off the stack. But that didn't work either...

I suspect I've lost just about everyone out there by now....to get to the main
point :
   1) Does anyone out there have a Koala pad driver compatable with TP 6.0?
      Or know of where we can get one? (Koala has lone since gone out of 
      business, and Touch Technology, who acquired the rights, hasn't been
      able to help me)
    2) If you followed the above gibberish, what am I doing wrong? If you 
       kind of understand, let me know and I'll try to explain it a little
       better.

Thanks in advance! Please reply by mail if possible.
- Michael

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted on GW2000's DX2/66 EISA Bus System
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 05:00:22 GMT

tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu writes:

>By chance, almost, I looked closely at GW2000's DX2/66 EISA bus system
>and noticed that for just $800 more than their DX2/66 VESA local bus
>system, you get a 500MB 11ms SCSI hard drive with 32-bit EISA SCSI
>controller. (As oppsed to a 340MB 13ms IDE hard drive with Local Bus
>interface.)
Yes, the SCSI might be faster.  But, the IDE controller on the
gateway is 32-bit and probably a negilible difference in speed vs
the 32-bit EISA scsi controller.

>There are other differences like getting a Tower as standard over
>a desktop, 8 EISA slots rather than just 2 32-bit VESA slots, and
>a 128K external cache rather than a 64K cache. (The minus is you're
>back to a 14" monitor rather than a 15").
To upgrade the VESA model to a 256K cache is $45.  No biggie.  The
15 inch monitor upgrade is about $200 I think.  Also, EISA cards are
more expensive.  What more do you need besides video and hard drive
to be local bus?  Probably ethernet, but you do have one slot open
on the Gateway.

>Now it seems to me, that $800 practically covers the extra expense of
>the SCSI hard drive plus EISA controller alone. I mean, it *looks*
>like this hard drive is really gonna haul ass over the VESA system.
>Is there something I'm missing, or will a 13-ms IDE drive with Local
>Bus IDE interface do almost as well?
According to a hardware engineer I talked to today (not a Gateway
employee, of course, but someone who works with a software
manufacturer), the IDE is going to be very close if not even better.
Of course, you miss the ability to hang other SCSI devices such as
printers, external drives, scanners, etc. off of that fast SCSI
interface that you're buying.

For me, the $1000 price difference doesn't cover the extra 150 MB
and maybe even a video speed decrease.  To quote that engineer: the
difference between an UltraPro VESA Local bus and an Ultra Pro EISA
is probably that the LocalBus model is 2ce as fast on a DX2/66
machine.

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From: nschaper@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Micronics (Gateway) VL-Bus motherboards don't accept regular SIMMs
Date: 21 Dec 92 12:10:35 CST
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

I think all of the Gateway VL-Bus systems use Micronics motherboards.
Anyway, it seems that these motherboards take some strange, non-standard
type of RAM.  Talking to a sales rep at Gateway, I found out that they want
$165 (U.S. dollars) for each additional 4Meg of RAM.  When I commented that
that price seemed high, the salesperson told me that these motherboards
do not accept SIMMs.  She said they take "EISA memory" (whatever that is).

I called back a second time to talk to somebody more knowledgable about
this, but I was unlucky enough to get the same person (and the same story).

Does anybody know what type of memory the Micronics VL-Bus motherboards accept?
This news somewhat blew my plans to get one of these motherboards, since I
was planning to use some of the SIMMs from my old motherboard.  Not only can
I not use my RAM, but I would have to pay $165/4Meg for new memory.

Can anybody explain this?  I'm sure this could affect the decisions of many
others that are considering a Micronics VL-Bus motherboard.

My apologies if this has been discussed before.


Neil Schaper
schaper@boole.tisl.ukans.edu
From: mhemy+@cs.cmu.edu (Michael Hemy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: HELP!...Puzzle #1
Date: 23 Dec 92 21:51:03 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon


I have a 486 DX2/66 with an AMI BIOS.
When I boot it takes about 5 seconds till I get the prompt,
but sometimes it takes 45 seconds!

I found out that it takes more time when I have a diskette in drive A:
(1.2 Mb) with the door open. The boot sequence specified in the CMOS
setup is A: then C:.

So why does it care that I have a diskette in the floppy drive if the
door is open? Does it wait for me to close the door? I would expect it
to ignore the presence of the diskette and continue directly to
booting from C:.

Can it be the fault of the controller? I am using an Orchid IDE-LB
Any ideas/comments/suggestions will be appreciated.

If you do not experience the same phenomenon, please email me too so I
can report it as a problem.

--Michael
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