HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: orville%weyrich@tnet.com (Orville R. Weyrich)
Subject: Re: Fax/Modem/Voice on one line.
Reply-To: tnet.com!weyrich!orville
Organization: Weyrich Computer Consulting
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 03:55:59 GMT

In article <8AUG199212020682@vms.huji.ac.il> gilf@vms.huji.ac.il (GIL FREUND) writes:
>I have an Everex Fax/Modem installed in my computer, and only one phone line.
>Is there any way for the modem to switch between Voice (answering machine),
>Fax and Modem. I have seen some standalone Fax machines who can do this
>trick.

Yes -- sort of.

I have a small box that I paid about $100 for that will answer the phone,
listen for a FAX machine signal, and generate a "pseudo ring" on an output
port [1]. The output port [1] is attached to a modem in auto-answer mode.
The modem is currently set to answer on about the 4th ring [simulated
ring, actually]. If prior to the modem picking up, the box detects a
FAX machine signal, it will generate a simulated ring on a second output
port [2], to which a FAX machine is attached. If either the modem
or FAX machine answers, the other is blocked out.

The problem is that some folks have trouble dialing in to my modem because
it doesn't answer right away, and their communications software times out.
[If they knew how to configure their software/modem they could work around 
the problem].

Another problem is that some [older] FAXes aren't smart enough to signal
that they have a FAX to transmit, so some FAX machines get connected to
my modem rather than my FAX.

My box also has a third port that can be accessed by pressing a touch-
tone while the box is waiting for the modem to pick up or to hear a
FAX signal, but I haven't used this feature.

I also think that my box is able to detect reverse-modem signaling and
distinguish between an incoming modem and FAX that way, and if neither
signal is heard, then transfer the call to a voice phone/answering 
machine. I haven't tried this option, but based on my experience
with some FAX calls not being properly categorized, I suspect that
I might get a lot of messages from FAX machines on my answering machine.


PC Magazine did a review of these automatic switches a while back (1-2
years).

I don't know what the current state of the art is.

If anyone knows of a product that can detect incoming modem, FAX,
and also provide voice-mail for OS/2 2.0 I would greatly appreciate 
hearing about it. 

orville

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From: MLONG@isucard.card.iastate.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Re: PS/2 60 hard disk information. Help!
Date: 19 Aug 92 22:52:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: isucard.16848ED44.MLONG
Organization: CARD

In article <1992Aug19.070021.24824@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>                      
sci240s@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Wey Jing HO) writes:                            
                                                                                
>I have a System 60 with a dead hard disk. A replacement from IBM will          
>set me back for about A$3000. It is only a 40MB hard disk. The information     
>or confirmation I need is, I was told it is an ESDI hard disk. Can I just      
>go out and buy an ESDI hard disk of popular makes and replace the dead         
>hard disk? (This will certainly be much cheaper than getting from IBM          
>direct.)                                                                       
>                                                                               
>Thank for any tips.                                                            
>--                                                                             
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  
>>Wey Jing Ho    Tel: 61-3-573-2567   E-mail : sci240s@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au<  
>>Physics Dept., Monash University ( Caulfield Campus ), Melbourne, AUSTRALIA<  
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  
>                                                                               
The fixed disk in a 60-041 is a ST-506 drive, not an ESDI drive.                
Mike Long                                                                       
Iowa State University                                                           
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: brt@cse.unl.edu (Bruce Thiebauth)
Subject: Re: Are SEAGATE drives any good ?
Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 02:31:58 GMT

fevrier@sunburn.ec.usf.edu. (Ian Fevrier (EE)) writes:



>Recently I had a local computer dealer  try to convince me that Seagate
>drives are not worth the metal they're built with.

>To this date I would have sworn on a Seagate so I'd like to know if I
>have just been lucky. 

>Any data to substantiate this dealers claim ?

I have had two st-1096N fail one after the other.  Both from the same
problem.  One lasted three months, the other a whole 15 months.  I have sworn to never buy or recommend another Seagate as long as I have to use computers.  The out of cost repair of the 84 MB drive will run about $170.  If your lucky, keepknocking on wood, backup ALOT and pray.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown)
Subject: Re: 24X scrolling performance
Keywords: Diamond, Speedstar, 24 bit color
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 06:02:04 GMT

mc@wam.umd.edu (Morgan Tay Chiu) writes:

>In article <1992Aug15.170259.7233@infonode.ingr.com> bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown) writes:
>>
>>Here are the benchmarks somebody wanted for text scrolling on
>>the diamond 24X.
>>
>>
>>Board           24X     Tseng4K     ATI Vantage    Stealth
>>Computer        386/33  386/33      486/33         486/33
>>Driver                  Winspeed
>>
>>Scroll System Font         
>>[1024x768x256]  12677   6513         24084         46933
>>[1024x768x16]   32032
>>[800x600x16]    61233                              79833
>>
>>Image Text System Font         
>>[1024x768x256]   7183    7147        19711         47457
>>[1024x768x16]    21300
>>[800x600x16]     40766                               
>>
>>As you can see, the 24X does not scroll or do text as well as the
>>Stealth, however, in the 16 color modes, it does almost as well.
>>It does everything else (in both 256 and 16 color modes) except diagonal 
>>lines as well or better.  Diamond is claiming that overall, the 
>>24X is faster on Winbench.
>>
>>------------
>>Bailey Brown                               "Above all else, confusion reigns."
>>Intergraph Corporation                                  
>>bbrown@casca.b11.ingr.com                              Procol Harum


>But in the benchmark, 24X was installed in a 386-33 while Stealth was installed
>in a 486-33.  You have to realize that a 486-33 is a much faster computer than
>a 386-33.  I believe the 486-33 has aided the Stealth a great deal.

>MC

You are right.  Just to give you an idea of how much, here are some more
numbers (numbers are different fom above because those use Diamond
drivers on 486/33 while these use generic S3 drivers on 486/50):

Scroll System Font

    Stealth (486/50)    Stealth (486/50slowed to 16 Mhz)

    48883               37070

Image Text System Font

    49354               30476

BTW, these numbers are in characters/second.

If you have a 24X and you want something to brag about, try this
(1024x768x16 on 386/33):

Hatch Patterns	98469495	pixels/sec


------------
Bailey Brown                               "Above all else, confusion reigns."
Intergraph Corporation                                  
bbrown@casca.b11.ingr.com                              Procol Harum
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mblum@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Cerebus)
Subject: Re: Is Diamond Stealth Video Card worth + $180
Organization: Brandeis University
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 14:24:17 GMT

dbasinge@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Mike Basinger) writes:

>Is a Diamond Stealth Video Card worth an extra $180 dollars over an
>Trident SVGA card with 1meg of Ram, especially if I have 8 megs of ram
>on my machine.

YES!!!!!  I just replaced my Trident 8900 with 1MB with a Diamond
Stealth VRAM, and the differences in speed and clarity are just
incredible.  Even the text screen redraws are faster!  Windows runs so
much faster, it's wonderful.  I consider the money well spent.

P.S. I have 8MB on my computer, too, not that it really matters in
this case.

-- Matt
Matt "Matt" Blum  		mblum@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu

The city, 1:00am. People in their rooms, asleep, lonely, depressed.
One of them gets the urge to pet a small, furry animal.  That's where
I come in.  My name's Friday.  I carry a badger.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown)
Subject: Re: Graphics Accelerators and OS 2.0
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 17:06:02 GMT

Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:

>The ET4000 has Svga drivers for OS/2. The S3 folks haven't bothered to write
>any. Trident has the best set of SVGA drivers. ALL of the above work fine with
>normal VGA.
> 

But I don't work fine with normal vga.  It's not just the resolution,
it's that damned 60hz refresh that kills me.  Gotta have my 72hz.

------------
Bailey Brown                               "Above all else, confusion reigns."
Intergraph Corporation                                  
bbrown@casca.b11.ingr.com                              Procol Harum
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.arch
From: tmcreek@eos.ncsu.edu (TOBIN MATTHEW CREEK)
Subject: 486DX light in a 486SX tunnel.
Originator: tmcreek@c00477-224wi.eos.ncsu.edu
Reply-To: tmcreek@eos.ncsu.edu (TOBIN MATTHEW CREEK)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 23:21:05 GMT


In article <1992Aug19.155448.18248@ilinx.wimsey.bc.ca>, brian@ilinx.wimsey.bc.ca (Brian J. Murrell") writes:
>
>ks3l+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kenton Shaver) writes:
>
>>Could anyone clear this up for me?
>>I read it in some magazine, but my ECE
>>friend is credulous.  Will my 487sx
>>just shut the 486sx down and take over?
>
>That's what I heard.  IMHO the 486sx is a *big scam*.
>
>To get your 486sx you buy a chip which is a functional 486dx with the 
>co-pro disabled (yes more work than a regular 486dx - yet cheaper!).
>At some point in the future you need the co-pro, so you buy a 487sx, which
>is just the regular 486dx with a 487sx stamp on it, which shuts down the
>486sx crippled chip and takes over the machine running it like the 486dx
>it should have been!!
>
>The above is all rumour I've heard from many sources, and read in a trade
>rag.  It is not the gospel!!
>
>brian
>-- 
>Brian J. Murrell                                        brian@ilinx.wimsey.bc.ca
>InterLinx Support Services, Inc.                        uunet!van-bc!ilinx!brian
>North Vancouver, B.C.
>        Platform and Brand Independent UNIX Support - R3.2 - R4 - BSD
>

Yes, the 486SX is a HUGE scam.  But there is a way around.  

Microlab is selling a 486SX-25 that they call an SX/DX board.  You can swap the
SX chip for a DX, change exactly 3 jumpers and a 4-pin chip-looking oscillator
and go clear up to a DX2-66.  

I have one of these boards.  I have heard bad things about Microlab before, but
I had always had good chats with them on the phone.  So I decided to try them
anyway.  This board is EXCELLENT.  It has a 512K AMI BIOS with a full setup
built in.  It supports 2 oscillators via 2 sockets for same and a jumper, in
addition to a turbo switch.  It is 2/3 baby size, ideal for any installation.
The chipset is ETEQ, and it works with everything I have tried.  There are
8 sockets for SIMMS (1M or 4M, 3 or 9 chip).  Docs are thorough.  

At $299, it gets **** with me.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: byron@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu (Byron Chun)
Subject: Help! IDE, Adaptec, & 486 combo...
Organization: California State University, Sacramento
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 18:40:36 GMT

I want to know if any has any experience with Adaptec 1542B
and IDE adaptors on the same system.  Can it be done?  I have
two perfectly good IDE drives which I would like to use in the
following configuration:

486/50 (EISA or ISA?)
Connor CP30170  (170 MB IDE)
Seagate ST1102  (89 MB IDE)

Adaptec 1542B (bus mastering SCSI-2)
Sony CD
Hard disks?  brands and models which will work?

Does this work?  Do I have to have EISA or will ISA work?  How
about the COREL SCSI?  AMI Fast Drive?

Thanks to all of you.
-- 
byron@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu           =====================================
                                  | My employer will allow me to have |
"It's not in my job description,  | an opinion.  They just won't back |
 but I'll do it anyway."          | me if things go sour.             |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.intel
From: cpurkis@gomez.intel.com (Clif Purkiser)
Subject: Re: Help - Cyrix processors, anyone know for sure?
Organization: Software Technology, Intel Corp, Santa Clara, CA
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 21:06:07 GMT

My understanding is that the performance gain from the Cyrix
chip is due largely from the cache.  Most i386 motherboard
have an external cache. I think you would have cache coherency
problems between the internal cache and external cache, because
the cache controller on the i386 motherboard wouldn't be aware
of the internal cache. 

Cyrix performance claims are generally based on modified i386 processor 
motherboard. So without enabling the cache I doubt you'd see a big
performance boost.


Clif Purkiser
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
From: sci240s@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Wey Jing HO)
Subject: PS/2 60 hard disk information. Help!
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 07:00:21 GMT

I have a System 60 with a dead hard disk. A replacement from IBM will
set me back for about A$3000. It is only a 40MB hard disk. The information
or confirmation I need is, I was told it is an ESDI hard disk. Can I just
go out and buy an ESDI hard disk of popular makes and replace the dead
hard disk? (This will certainly be much cheaper than getting from IBM
direct.)

Thank for any tips.
-- 
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Wey Jing Ho    Tel: 61-3-573-2567   E-mail : sci240s@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au<
>Physics Dept., Monash University ( Caulfield Campus ), Melbourne, AUSTRALIA<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: thomasc@ms.uky.edu (Thomas Campbell)
Subject: Ibm Pc-Jr (yeah, i know i know but, bare with me)
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 21:13:58 GMT
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences

Hiya gang, 

   I need to know if anyone out there knows where I can get a hold
of an Ibm Pc-Jr modem card.  If anyone has one they want to sell or
knows of somewhere in the world where they still sell them any/all
information would be appreciated.  (Send E-mail to the below address)


Alex

thomasc@s.ms.uky.edu
From: lio@ornl.gov (MILLION D L)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Need some good PC diagnostics
Date: 20 Aug 92 17:28:58 GMT
Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory

I'm having one of those maddeningly intermittent problems with my
Zeos 486/33 wherein the machine hangs completely at what seems like
random moments.  Everything stops and nothing but the RESET button
can recover.  It's happened in Windows 3.0, in Windows 3.1, and in 
plain ol' DOS as well.

I suspect some sort of hard-to-locate hardware problem.  I would like
to find some good diagnostic software for PC's that can really wring
the system out and possibly locate a bad memory chip or whatever.
Unfortunately, I am not real familiar with what's available in this line.
I've had someone suggest CHECKIT.  I've also read about something called
AMI Diag in PC Magazine (which is $150!!).

Can anyone out there recommend anything?  Surely by now someone has 
written some decent diagnostics for PC clones.  I'm willing to consider
PD, shareware, or commercial.  What I *don't* want is an "exerciser"
or "burnin" program that just runs until something breaks, but doesn't
really tell you what's wrong.

Thanks.

Dan Million               Internet:  milliondl@ornl.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: steveq@swifty.dap.CSIRO.AU (Stephen Quigg)
Subject: Re: Can I use IRQ2??
Organization: CSIRO, Division of Applied Physics, Sydney
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 23:26:18 GMT

In article <16s32oINNant@agate.berkeley.edu> forest@soda.berkeley.edu (Forest Edward Wilkinson) writes:
>In article <1992Aug18.203129.22330@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
>
>>If you are using an ISA card to drive your CD (likely), you can use
>>IRQ2.  This will be automagically remapped to IRQ9 on an AT-bus
>>machine (IRQ2 is the Cascade interrupt).
>
>What's the cascade interrupt?  (How is it different from the others, and
>why is it there?)
>
>
>-- 
>Forest Edward Wilkinson
>forest@soda.berkeley.edu

	The 8259 in it's simplest configuration can handle 8 interrupts. It
can also be strapped to act as a master, handling up to 8 other 8259's for a
total of 64 interrupts. In the AT there is one master and one slave, giving
a total capacity of 15 interrupts. interrupts 0,1,3-7 operate as per the PC
directly through the master. Interrupts 8-15 are handled by the slave THROUGH
IRQ2 on the master. What happens is that the master is set up to allow the 
slave onto the bus when it (the master) gets an IRQ2. ie IRQ2 does not exist
as far as the main processor is concerned.
	What happens (normally) is that an IRQ9 vectors through the address
1c4-1c7 (interrupt number 71H), and the (BIOS) vectors through address 28-2b
(interrupt number 0Ah), which is reserved for IRQ2. Now why this double shuffle
I don't know. Maybe IRQ2 was used in the PC and this is all done for 
compatability. It's all a bit confusing. perhaps someone can elaborate. If I've
messed up or confused the issue, please say so (small flames please!).

Steve.
From: johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Does a 487sx shut down the 486sx??
Date: 20 Aug 92 03:17:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: iecc.9208192317.AA21043
Organization: I.E.C.C.

In article <IeYSMJK00Voz8Vf8ZN@andrew.cmu.edu> you write:
>Will my 487sx just shut the 486sx down and take over?

Yup.  The 487SX is merely a chip designed to separate money from suckers.
Well-designed motherboards, such as the ones from Dell, have a single socket
that can accept a 486DX, 486SX, or 487SX.  If you get a 486SX and later
decide that you need floating point, you merely pop it out and replace it
with either a 486DX or 487SX.  The two chips are functionally identical
except for an extra pin on the 487SX, but the 486DX is considerably cheaper.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us, {spdcc|ima|world}!iecc!johnl
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From: amk@icf.hrb.com (Andrew M. Kissel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Using Imagewriter with IBM?
Date: 13 Aug 92 21:31:23 GMT
Article-I.D.: icf.1992Aug13.163123.19446
Organization: HRB Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Aug11.131509.18713@mic.ucla.edu>, brims@bnkl01.astro.ucla.edu (George Brims) writes:
> In article <1992Aug3.163830.19417@icf.hrb.com> amk@icf.hrb.com (Andrew M. Kissel) writes:
>>In article <1992Jul28.055826.15876@seas.gwu.edu>, lai@seas.gwu.edu (William Y. Lai) writes:
>>The Apple Imagewriter command set is the same as the C-Itoh 8510. I just
>>hooked one up to my system at home recently. I'm also running Windows 3.1, 
>>and it works just fine!!!
>>
>>Andy
> The Apple Imagewriter and Imagewriter II are both C.Itoh printers internally,
> Apple just put on their own shell (and possibly changed the ROMs on the II).
> The same printers also sell as the DEC LA50 and LA75 respectively. The latter
>  emulates the IBM Prowriter, so the Apple one might do so too.
> 
> George Brims

The only drawback with using the "C-Itoh 8510" driver is that the only DPI 
resolution available is 92x72.  The Apple Imagewriter-I/LA50 is capable
of doing 144x72.

Is there anyone recommendations as to another "compatable" printer driver that
handles the printer capable 144x72 dpi???

Andy
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
Subject: Re: Wanted: opinions of 1024x768 at 60Hz
Reply-To: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 00:12:16 GMT


In a previous article, forest@soda.berkeley.edu (Forest Edward Wilkinson) says:

>
>I'm planning on buying a monitor this week, and I can get
>one that does 1024x768 at 60 Hz (rather than 70 or 72 Hz)
>for about $100 less.
>Would anyone who uses this configuration please send me
>mail with your opinions?  I'd like to know how noticable
>the flicker is, how solid thin lines appear, etc.  Basically,
>is 1024x768 at 60 Hz easy on the eyes?
>
>Thanks.


Well, basically, 60 hz sucks.  It flickers, especially under florescent
lights or when viewed out of the corner of my eye.  The picture just 
does not look as solid as interlaced modes or 70hz.

If you are just going to be displaying pictures, an interlaced mode
will look better.  If you are going to use os/2 or something else that 
uses lots of narrow horizontal lines, 60hz is better that interlaced,
because the horizontal lines will dance. 

But I find 60 hz painful to look at for long periods of time.
70hz is many times easier on the eyes.

Other factors are also involved such as the persistance of the phosphor.(sp)
A long persistance will not flicker, but will leave trails on moving
objects.  I find 60 htz bad on short or medium short persistance.
Most 14" monitors are medium-short persistance.
From: wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: For $325, what's better than a Viewsonic 6?
Date: 13 Aug 92 00:17:02 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: The John P. Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario

And while on the subject of video...
What is the least expensive card that will: 
Drive a monitor @ 60Hz (minimum) @ 1024 X 768 X 256 non-interlaced

and...

640 X 480 X 32K colors, or 800 X 600 X 32K colors
and / or
1280 X 1024 X anything (interlaced or not)

We're ignoring the ram-dac stuff here, and speed is not important...
From: Alan_Boisclair@mindlink.bc.ca (Alan Boisclair)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: What's awful about PC Tools 7.1?
Date: 19 Aug 92 09:06:41 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

Dear Danny,
I don't mind PCTOOLS 7.1; works fine!  But 7.0 crashed by HardDrive FIVE times
due to incompatabilities with DOS 5.0... It then took Central Point 4 months to
get me the Upgrade!! I was NOT IMPRESSED!!

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware