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From: chk@SSP.ETRI.RE.KR (Chang Hyeoungkyu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: T1 interface for PC/Workstation (Looking for Product)
Date: 8 Sep 92 01:49:12 GMT
X-Unparsable-Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 10:46:32 KDT

Dear netters,

I want product information that can interface T1 line with
PC or Unix Workstation. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Best Regards,
Chang Hyeoungkyu.

PS)	Why do I need this ?
	I want to connect "Computer" to "Switch".
	The computer would do voice synthesis, voice
	recognition, and optionally image processing.
	Yes, it is IP!

-- 
Name:	Chang Hyeoungkyu
Phone:	+82-42-860-5337
Fax:	+82-42-860-6832
E-mail:	chk@ssp.etri.re.kr or chk@cosmos.kaist.ac.kr
Mail:	Chang Hyeoungkyu
	Switching Services Section, TDX Division
	ETRI, Daeduk Science Town, P.O. Box 8
	Daejeon, 305-350, Republic of Korea
Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:23992 comp.os.msdos.apps:4705 comp.os.ms-windows.apps:2682
From: stare@lonexb.rl.af.mil (Edward M. Starczewski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Gateway's Software Options?
Date: 11 Sep 92 13:18:52 GMT
Organization: RL

In article <1992Sep9.124046.12491@devildog.att.com> jdalin@devildog.att.com (Jimmy Dalin) writes:
>
>The software is entirely equivalent, although the disks and manuals they
>supply have "Gateway" labels and covers.  Gateway has arranged for site
>licenses of the software, and is allowed to freely distribute this software
>to their customers.  But Gateway is the registered owner of the software,not
>you.  This has two effects: first, you will not get upgrade notices from the
>vendor.  Gateway told me that they would send me upgrade offers, possibly at
>a lower price than the original software vendor.  (This remains to be seen.)
>Second, although you can legally sell this software to someone else (by
>removing the software from your machine and giving the buyer the original
>disks and manuals), you cannot guarantee the buyer that they will receive
>upgrade notices.
>
>--
>Jim Dalin            "No Salga Afuera"
>AT&T                    N.Y.C.T.A.
>ATTMail id: !jdalin
>Compuserve: 72260,1573

This is not entirely true of all the software options offered by gateway.
For instance, I got the programmers option, which game with microsoft
disks and manuals for visual basic, quick c and the help compiler.  Also
included was the registration card which I promptly filled out and sent
to microsoft.

-- 
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Rome Laboratory           Com: 315-330-4431
E-mail: stare@lonex.rl.af.mil
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: hv@uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama)
Subject: Micropolis 1325 ?
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 08:43:03 GMT

	I happen to get one old hard disk that is labeled
	Micropolis 1325 (ST506). I wonder what is this ST506?
	According to the great hard disk parameter catalog
	(theref42.zip) this disk is normal MFM (ST412). But
	when I try to format it using plain MFM controller
	I can't get anything out of it. Or is it broken...

	-harri-
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///// University of Vaasa, P.O.Box 700, 65101 VAASA, Finland 
///// Telephone:+358 61 3248364  fax:+358 61 3248465
///// Anonymous ftp site moderator at garbo.uwasa.fi (128.214.87.1)
From: mrr1@Ra.MsState.Edu (mark r rauschkolb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Hard drive won't work with WD controller
Date: 14 Sep 92 16:07:23 GMT
Reply-To: mrr1@Ra.MsState.Edu
Organization: Mississippi State University


     I have a Miniscribe 8438 RLL drive and a WD1006V-SR2 controller.
The hard disk works fine with an ACB2370 controller, and other disks
work fine with the WD controller.  

     I have the WD low level utility and have the suggested numbers for
the Drive.  It Low Level formats OK, but then will not boot (boot from
drive A, nothing will admit the drive exists, or gets a drive not ready 
error)
  
Any Suggestions?

Mark
mrr1@ra.msstate.edu
From: Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Jim Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Help w/ graphics card (2nd request)
Distribution: world
Date: 9 Sep 92 08:25:38 EST
Organization: Amiga BitSwap Central Dispatch

I just sold my EGA card & manual so I don't have the switch settings
anymore.
It was an Epson card, but used the Paradise chip set.  The switch settings
depend on the type of monitor you will be using (mono or RGB).  HOWEVER, if
the card is autoswitching like mine was, try turning switch 5 ON to enable
the card to detect the type of installed monitor.  I ** think ** the
factory switches were 1- ON, 2- OFF, 3- OFF, 4- ON, 5- ON.  I don't believe
there was a 6th switch on my board.  If you do have a parallel port, the
6th switch may be for LPT1/LPT2 selection.

-- Via DLG Pro v0.995

Jim Johnson-
*** Remember, they're only tools - Not a way of life! ***
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: gilem@aix.rpi.edu (Michael R. Gile)
Subject: Re: Who makes VESA local bus motherboards?
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 14:49:33 GMT

In article <Bu2soo.LKH@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jas37876@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (John A. Slagel) writes:
>richk@grebyn.com (Richard Krehbiel) writes:
>
>>...and, from whom could I purchase one?  Would an EISA bus be cheaper?
>
>>Another related question:
>
>>A comparison benchmark I saw recently (sorry, I don't recall where) of
>>local bus video has an interesting statistic.  It showed that all the
>>local bus video cards (well, the ones they tested) only provide a 16
>>bit memory interface.  This was apparent from the benchmarks; moving
>>DWORDs was no faster than moving WORDs.  I can understand why this
>>would be, since all the local bus video cards use the same 16 bit
>>chips (S3, ET4000) as are used in ISA bus cards.
>
>>So, does anyone know if there are any VGA cards for local bus with a
>>*real* 32 bit data path?
>
>    The VESA standard for local bus isn't expected till later this year.
>    So, for now, nobady makes one. 
>    I think the reason they dont use 32-bit access is because all the
>    software written now doesn't, so it would mess things up.
>
>-- 
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
> John A. Slagel     "My old man used to tell me, before he left this
> j-slagel1@uiuc.edu  shitty world, never chase buses or women- you
>                     always get left behind." -The Marlboro Man

The VESA local bus standard was voted on in July, and the decision was
made to accept it.  Currently there are only a few vendors which make
such motherboards.  Micronics (who chaired the VESA commitee, and
sell motherboards to Gateway), Zeos, and another company who's name 
escapes me at the moment.  The latter motherboards are sold in machines
by Cornell computer and are a combination of VESA and EISA, the best of 
both worlds, I think.  As far as I know, there are no VGA card with 
32bit path that are made fast enough for local bus.  Now that there is
some kind of standard though, they are sure to be coming soon.  Therefore,
I think that it would be wise to choose VESA now, if you need to buy a
computer.

mike

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: Modem difficulty--can't hang up!!!
X-To: J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOC
Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 22:55:00 GMT

From J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM
>I've got a Nuvotel 14,400IFX fax/modem with a problem.  Whenever I am unexpect-
>edly disconnected, my modem doesn't hang up.  Not only that, it *doesn't*
>hang up unless I turn the power off!  Requesting a disconnection/hang-up in
>my comm software doesn't work.  This modem is using a Rockwell chipset.  Has
>any of you net.gurus experienced this or a similar problem?  What should I do
>about this?  I hate having to turn off the machine to reset the modem.

    Try feeding it ATS10=#. The # can be from 1-255, and the larger the
number, the longer it will take for it to realize that it's been given the
boot!

    As always, hope this helps.


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    .sig's are fun,                     \ andrewm@zooid.guild.org
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From: se08+@andrew.cmu.edu (Seth Adam Eliot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: HELP: IBM token ring on Gateway 2000
Date: 7 Sep 92 17:31:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.cef09me00Voz0HiktO
Organization: Doctoral student, Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

I recently purchased a Gateway 2000 486 DX2 50 MHz machine.

Now I'd like to install my old 'IBM Token-Ring Network PC Adapter II'
card in it, but I can't seem to find any settings that work.

The card has the following adjustable settings:

						set by		default
Location of card's ROM in memory		DIP		CC000
Interrupt Level				DIP		2
Size of Shared RAM				DIP		16 K
Shared RAM location			soft		D8000 (I think)

So I believe that IRQ 7 is OK (it's LPT1, and I've disconnected my
printer from it).  But everything else is a mystery.  I just can't get
the card to initialize.

Gateway provides no memory maps for finding unused RAM (if that's the
problem) so I'm in the dark.

Any and all help would be appreciated.

-Seth

P.S. does Gateway have an internet address for this kind of stuff?
From: Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Jim Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: What does AST Six Pack do?
Date: 8 Sep 92 03:35:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: abcd.Jim_Johnson.089s
Distribution: world
Organization: Amiga BitSwap Central Dispatch

The AST Six-Pack has:
clock/calendar
fill basic memory up to 640K (on motherboards socketed for less than 640K)
add expanded memory
use expanded memory for a ram disk and/or a print spooler

-- Via DLG Pro v0.995

Jim Johnson-
*** Remember, they're only tools - Not a way of life! ***
From: tracyb@bnr.ca (Tracy Blomquist)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Phillips 17" Monitors?
Date: 11 Sep 92 12:33:33 GMT
Organization: Bell Northern Research
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

I just read an ad in th Sept 29 PC Mag (Page 94) about
a new line of Phillips monitors (from 14" to 21").  Has
anyone seen the 17" version or heard any reviews on it?

They're advertising something called FastRefresh which "...
redraws the on-screen image up to 160 times per second..."
(based on video card capabilities of course).

Any comments?

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From: grtorlba@sumax.seattleu.edu (George Torralba)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: What's the difference: SoundBlaster vs. Pro vs. Pro-Basic?
Date: 15 Sep 92 15:50:31 GMT
Organization: Seattle University, Seattle WA

As I understand it, the only difference is that the Pro Basic package
does not have the midi interface, which I think is just a piece of cable. 
Also, it does not have the midi software (makes sense) that comes bundled
with the full Pro package.  Basically though, it's the same board.

George
From: tching@target.water.ca.gov (Tracy Ching <SysAdmin>)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: (SUN-) RGB-Monitor at VGA Card ?
Date: 7 Sep 92 16:15:41 GMT
Organization: California State University, Sacramento

In article <18c2fsINN2te@werple.apana.org.au> sjp@werple.apana.org.au (Steven Pemberton) writes:
>gdragner@geppetto.encore.com (George Dragner) writes:
>: tko.vtt.fi (Michael Hasemann) writes:
>: >has anybody experience connecting a RGB+combined SYNC-Monitor
>: >(SUN-Monitor) to a VGA Card ?
>Please, if anyone knows how to wire a 15 pin VGA to such a monitor, could
>you post/email the details?

	It depends on what type/brand Sun monitor you have.  I know of
two from Hitachi that Sun uses.  HM-3619 and HM-4619 were common.  They
both have seperate or combined sync on green.  The video card for the 
HM-4619 must be able to drive about 100MHz.  The HM-4619-**A-* is a 
1280 x 1024 w/ H 61-65KHz and V 55-65Hz non multi-sync.  The
HM-4619-*-*C-* is 1024 x 768 w/ H 48-52KHz and V 55-65Hz.  The sync 
signals are External (HV mixed sync) or composite on green.  You
will have to look at your video card to make sure which one it is.
Above, Mike says RGB+combined sync.  This means all he has to do is
grab the "red" output from his card and stick it into "red" on his
monitor using a BNC connector with ground connected.  The pinouts
of a 15 pin should be in the video card user's manual.  Also, the
rest of the signals should be tied using BNC connectors.  So, the
key to the situation is to make sure your video card can drive the 
monitor before going out and buying a cable (or making your own).
There are very few cards out there that will drive the 4619.  They
are in the 1000's $$ range.  There is one card I know of that will
drive it and cost $290.  It runs a stretched 75MHz Tseng at 120MHz.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: thompson@atlas.socsci.umn.edu (T. Scott Thompson)
Subject: Re: Gateway's Software Options?
Reply-To: thompson@atlas.socsci.umn.edu
Organization: Economics Department, University of Minnesota
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 17:21:34 GMT

jdalin@devildog.att.com (Jimmy Dalin) writes:

>vendor.  Gateway told me that they would send me upgrade offers, possibly at
>a lower price than the original software vendor.  (This remains to be seen.)

Gateway sent me upgrade offers on MS-DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1 soon
after they got the rights to do so.  Their prices were as good or
better than the upgrade ads I saw from Microsoft.  Their intent seems
to be good, and their follow-through was great on MS-DOS 5.0 (I didn't
take advantage of the Windows upgrade.)  Gateway has given me _far_
better customer service than I got when I owned Northgate or Zeos
systems, and the hardware has been very reliable.
--
T. Scott Thompson              email:  thompson@atlas.socsci.umn.edu
Department of Economics        phone:  (612) 625-0119
University of Minnesota        fax:    (612) 624-0209
Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:24278 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:12657
From: jmt@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Jon M. Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Help with memory on old XT
Keywords: I have a little problam.  Recently, my parents picked up an old XT
Date: 14 Sep 92 03:00:12 GMT
Reply-To: jmt@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US (Jon M. Taylor)
Organization: Sacramento Public Access Unix, Sacramento, Ca.

from work for free, but it only had 256K on the motherboard and no
expansion (read: USELESS).  We got an 8-bit memory expansion card with 3
banks, filled 2 banks with 256k drams and one with 64Ks, and... it did not
do anything.  I tried switching out some banks on the motherboard and
setting the start address of the card down farther.  nada.  Finally, I
removed the 256s from the card and exchanged 2 banks of 64s on the
motherboard for the 256s.  nothing happened (this is wierd - how can thew
system treat 256s like 64s?
     Anyway, I'm fresh out of ideas.  My parents want to get a 286
motherboard, but I thought I'd ask the net first and see if there was any
way I could get this to work.  In case it's important, the system is an
original IBM XT, the motherboard says "64-256k system board" on the side,
and there are 4 banks of ram chips on the motherboard, each with 9 chips.
 
Replies by email are preferred, as I do not read this group.
 
-- 
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"'Cause what the world needs now, is another folk singer, like I need a
hole in my head." - _Teen Angst_, Cracker
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: iroderic@alfred.carleton.ca (Ian Roderick)
Subject: Re: Bypass AMI bios passwd protect needed
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 17:14:57 GMT

In <1992Aug27.115612.2944@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au> u2116318@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au writes:

>anyone knwow how can i bypass the 
>passwd protect of ami bios without
>unplug the battery or hard drive?

>because some one changed the cmos
>config and passwd in one of the machines
>so we can't use telnet with that machine.

>thanks in advance

A similar thing happened to me where someone was mucking around with
the setup and installed a password and then couldn't remember it!

I did what the manual for my motherboard told me but before you
consider doing this I would strongly recommend you 1) check your own
manual and 2) wait for other responses.

Taken directly from the manual:

If user forgets the password, you should turn off the power, short the
JP16 by putting metal across pin 1 & 2 and then move away.  When you
turn on the power again [with the metal REMOVED], no password is
requested, but a message of "CMOS battery state low" is shown on the
screen.  User can ignore the message.

After getting the battery message the first time, on the subsequent
boot up my system gave no further such messages.  The battery was no
longer being shorted so all was returned to normal.

This is not a particulary dangerous procedure (for yourself or the
computer) but from experience, I have learned that any such tinkerings
should be done slowly and with caution.

Ian
From: jegm@cody.esd.sgi.com (Jim Morris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: CMS JUMBO TAPE DRIVES & CPBACKUP - BAD COMBO???
Date: 8 Sep 92 16:43:26 GMT
Reply-To: jegm@esd.sgi.com
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

I've been using cpbackup for windows 7.2 with the Jumbo 120. It works fine,
except you do have to reformat the tape (in QIC format) with CPBACKUP. The
JUmbo formatted tapes usually don't work with CPBACKUP. My guess is that
the bad block table is different or something.
-- 
Jim Morris, Email: jegm@esd.sgi.com  Voice: (415) 390-5136
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: jld@datascope.com (Jay L. Davis)
Subject: Re: NE2000 programming information needed
Organization: Datascope Corp.
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 22:12:41 GMT

In article <1992Sep3.201055.26877@pool.info.sunyit.edu> ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson) writes:
>In article <1992Sep1.223645.3165@datascope.com> jld@datascope.com (Jay L. Davis) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug29.073441.13494@pool.info.sunyit.edu> ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson) writes:
>>>I need to write a driver for an NE2000 Ethernet card and need some
>>>printed information.  Looking through a lot of source code hasn't quite
>>>done the trick.  Please send responses via email, since I'm working
>>>against a deadline.
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance,
>>>-- 
>>>Jim H.
>>
>>Take a look at the chip set on the board (I think it is a National
>>Semiconductor but I don't remember for sure) and get the information
>>direct from that company.
>>
>>---Jay Davis
>
>Does anyone know the address of National Semiconductor, so I can get
>programming information for their DS8390 Ethernet chip?  Also, does
>this information cost anything?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>-- 
>Jim H.
>*
>* James L. Henrickson
>* ujlh@sunyit.edu        "Some day I might have a real .signature!"

National Semiconductor Corp.
2900 Semiconductor Drive
P.O. Box 58090
Santa Clara, Ca. 95052-8090
(408)721-5000

Sales Offices:

Fairport NY: (716)223-7700
Melville NY: (516)351-1000
Wappinger Falls NY: (914)298-0680
Paramus NJ: (201)599-0955

Sometimes the companies charge for these books when you get them direct
but you can usually get them for free from a local distributer. Give them
a call and ask.

---Jay Davis
From: byu@remus.rutgers.edu (Bob Yu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: HELP: INTEL
Date: 11 Sep 92 17:15:46 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


Hi,

	I got a very old Intel SDK-2920.  I think it's some kind of
microprocessor programer or sort...   Does anybody (I really don't
think) know about this thing? :)

	If not, can anybody give me a number for Intel or Intel BBS or
something.  

	I like to see what it does before taking out the parts for
other projects :).

Thanks in advance.

Bob.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: heyes@dadev.cebaf.gov (Graham Heyes)
Subject: PC video to "video" video???
Organization: Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility
Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 16:22:34 GMT

This is probably a stupid question but I'll try it on you.

I want to duplicate the screen output of a PC on a normal
television. (To get a big picture for use in a large hall).

		I have a sony with a coaxial input marked 
"video", does anyone know how to make a simple circuit to
mix the sync and picture signals output from a PC into 
a composite video signal which the television would eat.
I remember seeing something in a magazine a long time ago
but can't remember the details. All I need is a simple 
black and white picture so at a guess I would mix the OR
of the three colour signals with the horizontal and vertical
syncs but I seem to remember that the picture signal is 
pulses made up of positive pulses while the syncs are
negative. i.e. not your standard TTL, and I can't remember
the voltage levels required.

	Any ideas diagrams etc welcome. Please reply by 
E-mail since I do not normally have anything to do with the
PC world, someone suggested this as a last ditch attempt.

	Many thanks,
		Graham Heyes.
From: exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (exuptr@exu.ericsson.se)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: BIOS?
Date: 13 Sep 92 23:42:33 GMT
Organization: Ericsson Network Systems, Inc.

In article <18u2kgINNnen@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> as232@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael Lerner) writes:


>I have seen a few posts in this group where the poster refers to levels of
>BIOS.  "AMI" or "Phoenix".  What is the main difference between the
>different available levels?  And, what is the state of the art BIOS?  What
>is the minimum level one should accept in a PC?  Sorry if these questions
>sound naive...

>Mike
>-- 

Always use AMI BIOS.  ;-)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: rainer@spot.Colorado.EDU (Rainer Malzbender)
Subject: High Refresh Rates (was Re: Ultra Graphics Pro Release Date ???????)
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 18:40:53 GMT

Tracy Blomquist writes:
>
>BTW.  I phoned Philips Tech support about their new monitors.  They
>have a 17" (16" viewable) flat-screen, .26 dp, 1280x1024 up to 100Hz!
>Yes, 100Hz!  They call the high-refresh technology FastRefresh.

This is no big deal. Monitors that sync at 120 Hz have been around
for quite some time. One of the primary uses of such monitors is to support
stereo viewing, which usually works by doubling the vertical sync rate and
sending alternating frames to each eye separately. For such an application
100 Hz would probably result in too much flicker (50Hz frame rate). For normal
viewing these high sync rates would be pretty meaningless since no graphics
card in existence supports them, AFAIK.  Also, some people may be confusing a
100 Mhz *bandwidth* (as opposed to 100 Hz sync rate), which definitely does
have advantages in terms of a sharper picture (all else being equal).

-- 
Rainer Malzbender
Post-doc, Physics
U. of Colorado, Boulder (303)492-1366           rainer@boulder.colorado.edu