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Subject: news
From: lrfrederick@ualr.edu
Date: 10 Nov 92 18:16:26 GMT
Organization: University of Arkansas at Little Rock

I recently obtained an old XT compatible.  The motherboard is a Golden Star
Technology Turbo Plus 2.  I can't get it to work correctly with a CGA card
that I picked up cheap.  Neither item came with any instructions so I have no
idea what jumpers do what.  The CGA card has only one identifying mark on it
it says ".\\"  The computer works fine with the monochrome card that came with
it, but when I try to use the CGA card with a CGA monitor, the screen rolls
very quickly and looks like several images are on it.  Does anyone have any
idea what could be wrong.  I've tried every jumper on the card and the
motherboard but none of them help.

lrfrederick@ualr
From: dernis@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: 486DX/2-40Mhz(?)
Date: 10 Nov 92 01:20:25 GMT
Reply-To: dernis@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University

Has anyone heard of a 486DX/2 that runs 20Mhz external, 40Mhz external.
Someone my father has been doing business with a long time claims to have 
them.  It is EISA bus architecture.  I had never heard of it before, but 
he claims that it is much faster than a 486-33.  His prices have always 
been very good, as cheap if not cheaper than mail order companies, and prices 
I have seen tossed around here.  So I bought one.  My father is shipping it 
to me.

Did I make a mistake, is this really non-standard?

And yes I have checked to make sure things are what he says they are.  

Thanks,
Mitch Dernis
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From: choe@stein.u.washington.edu (In-Jerng Choe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,uw.pc.ibm
Subject: Need info on QIC-02 and QIC-36 tape drive
Keywords: tape, QIC-02, QIC-36
Date: 12 Nov 92 07:16:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov12.071626.9030
Organization: University of Washington

I got old tape drives from surplus very cheap.
One of them is QIC-02 with PC interface card.
The other is QIC-36 with Adaptec ACB3530GA QIC36-to-SCSI interface card.
I'd like to use one of them for my PC if possible.
Does anybody know about these drives?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Jay.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: brett@vivaldi.psu.edu (Brett K Lynch)
Subject: IBM 5140 Laptop INFO
Organization: Penn State Center for Academic Computing
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 92 17:41:41 GMT


If anyone has ANY information on were to obtain hardware / accessories for
the IBM 5140 Laptop or the "convertible laptop", we would greatly appreciate
a copy.

Unfortunately, we have already attempted to contact IBM for a list of such
dealers.  The information they provided proved rather useless, since most
of the companies no longer were in business.

Specifically we are looking for a serial\parallel interface, but any
leads will surely be helpful...

Thanx in advance..

-Brett
brett@vivaldi.psu.edu
bkl104@psuvm.psu.edu

 
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From: zeisset@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Stephan Zeisset)
Subject: CD-Rom drive for Windows NT
Originator: zeisset@hphalle6b.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
Organization: TU M"unchen (FRG)
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 13:34:58 GMT


Hi, I am looking for a CD-Rom drive for use with the 
Windows NT preliminary devellopment edition.
I know it includes drivers for certain SCSI cards 
(e.g the Adaptec 1542), but which AT-BUS drives are supported ?
I also heared that Microsoft recommends to use SCSI-drives
for speed's sake but I can't immagine a good reason why   
- given the long access times and low transfer rates of
CD-ROM drives - a drive connected via SCSI should be much 
faster than a AT-Bus drive.

Stephan.
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From: derekk@harlqn.co.uk (Derek Knight)
Subject: Quantum 240S info wanted
Organization: Harlequin Limited, Cambridge, England
Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 11:49:08 GMT

I today took delivery of a new Quantum 240S drive. Can some kind soul
tell me the jumper configurations of it? the disc was delivered
without documentation, and the supplier though cheap is somewhat
clueless.

There are pins marked A0 A1 and A2 (jumpers are on A1 and A2), also
there are pins marked WS, EP (which is jumpered) and SS.

Any help is much appreciated
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,biz.zeos.general
From: faruque@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Abdullah Faruque,334CH,3752,2654247)
Subject: Re: LLF of IDE
Organization: Clarkson University
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 21:11:10 GMT

From article <1dbhkoINNhfb@clover.csv.warwick.ac.uk>, by cstadbt@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr C A Elliott):
> 
stuff deleted
> 
> If anyone has the Seagate low level formatting program, I like to hear from
> them (this is not the same as Disk Manager by Ontrak, which is for RLL and MFM
> drives)
> 
The Seagate Disk manager (ver. 4.5) by Ontrack has an option to do LLF a
Seagate ST157A (which is an IDE type drive). I used it to do LLF a ST157A
and it worked. 

> Charles
> 
> cstadbt@warwick.ac.uk
> 

-Faruque
Email: faruque@sun.soe.clarkson.edu
From: mulvey@blurt.oswego.edu (Allen Mulvey, SUNY, Oswego, NY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Temp sensor with PC interface?
Date: 4 Nov 92 13:31:27 GMT
Organization: SUNY College at Oswego, Oswego, NY

In article <1992Nov2.092127.60298@cc.usu.edu>, slh1y@cc.usu.edu (Jay Cliburn) writes:
> Can anyone recommend an ambient air temperature sensor which interfaces 
> to a PC?  It doesn't need to be very sophisticated or super accurate, I 
> just want to use my computer to monitor the temperature in a room and 
> report when the temperature exceeds limits.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> --
> Jay Cliburn		jay@prometheus.idec.sdl.usu.edu
> 			slh1y@cc.usu.edu

You should be able to rig a thermistor with an adjusting potentiometer 
across a joystick analog input. You would probably have to write your own 
software to monitor it.

			Allen Mulvey
			mulvey@blurt.oswego.edu
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From: schludermann@sscvx1.ssc.gov
Subject: RFI:Phoenix EISA bios memory addressing?
Organization: Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 14:28:58 GMT

  How much ram can the phoenix EISA bios v.1.00.14 from 1991 address?
 64 or 128 meg?

thanxs

Kris


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: Frank2.Simon@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Frank2 'Biber' Simon)
Subject: Re: Monitor screen damaged by Magnet
Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 14:32:17 GMT

Hi,
I only know this problem of our TV: My little brother did the same
experiment like your son, but he took two big magnets of two big
speaker (200 Watt). So the whole flat were been very colourful,
straight lines were been awry. After visiting our dealer we should
do the following: The most TVs has got a automatic to remagnetic itself.
To do so you have to plug out the connector to the 220V (or 110V).
After 1-2Days the problem should be disappeared and so it did..

Maybe the procedure helps you too..

Very much luck

Frank
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From: Clive.Bard@mail.trincoll.edu (Clive Bard) (Clive Bard)
Subject: Monitor/Card Questions
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Organization: Trinity College
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 06:04:24 GMT

How are horizontal scan rates, vertical refresh rates, bandwith, 
resolution, and color depth tied together?

I have a Loop SuperVGA monitor (analog) which seems similar to the
NEC MultiSync 2a, with the following specs:

Horizontal Scan Rates:  31KHz    (which the manual says gives 720x480 max
res)
                        35KHz    (which the manual says gives 
                                  800x600/1024x768 max)
Vertical Refresh Rates: 50, 60, 70, and 87Hz
Maximum Colors:         256
Video Bandwidth:        40MHz
Display Area:           Horizontal: 240 +/- 5mm
                        Vertical:   180 +/- 5mm
Dot Pitch:              .31 or .28mm

And a ZyMos POACH 16-bit VGA card with 256k RAM.

The Question:
     My VGA card manual says that if I want to use the extended VGA modes I

need a MultiSync monitor with horizontal scan rates of 15 to 65KHz, however

it also says a monitor such as the NEC MultiSync 2a will support some of 
these modes.  I can add another 256K RAM to the card to make it 512K.
     Now I would like to be able to do 256 colors at at least 800x600.  Can
I do it with what I have, or do I need a new monitor?  

I would very much appreciate responses via mail.  Thankyou in advance.     
            
_________________________________________________________________________
Clive Bard                                      300 Summit St.
Internet: clive.bard@mail.trincoll.edu          Hartford, CT 06106
Bitnet:   clive.bard%mail@trincc.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: harp@martha.utcc.utk.edu (harp)
Subject: Re: How to buy a CD ROM drive?
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 19:44:44 GMT

In article <1555@yetti.UUCP> frank@cs.yorku.ca (Frank Pikelner) writes:
>
>Well, I think it may be time to purchase a CD ROM drive. I need the experts
>on the net to let me know what I should be looking for, traps and pitfalls, etc.
>
>Some things I have questions on:
>
>Format type: HiSierra/(I forgot the second type) is this a function of the
>             drive or a function of the drivers.
>Block size: Do all drives read at 512k blocks? I know SUN uses 2048k blocks.

I think what you mean here is 512 byte to 2048 byte (.5k to 2k). 

>Access time: I heard MS set a standard of max. 350ms, is this important? I
>             guess I may do multimedia in the future.

Access time is important.  I know that some old drives have seeks nearing
1000ms.  Typically, new drives are between 200 or so and 500ms.

>Transfer rate: it seems most are 1.5 - 1.6Mb

Not even close.  Most hard drives don't achieve 1.5 - 1.6Mb per second.  Cd
drives achieve between 150k/sec and 330k/sec.  Many new drives offer dual
speeds.  They function at the standard audio spinning speed and then double to
300k or so for data.  Good for video to have a faster transfer.

>Buffer size: is this similar to a read ahead cache?

Not a cache really, but a memory chunk that holds the data coming off the cd.
This way, the cd will not have to wait for the cpu to let it read more data.
It can feed the buffer and the cpu can pull it from there.

>OS support: I use DR DOS, OS/2 2.0, Linux, maybe NT when it comes out.
>
>What do you girls/guys recommend?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>-- 
>
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From what I can tell, just about any SCSI cdrom drive you can get your hands on
(being made now, not the older ones) conforms to certain standards that will
allow it to be used on most platforms.  I am not a cd "guru", so I couldn't
quote the standards but I do know that they exist.  I guess for PC's the
problem boils down to the SCSI controller you have.

Sean Harp
University of Tennessee


P.S.  Any further elaborations of this would help both of us.
From: lrxi00@icts01.Kodak.COM (James Nonnemacher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Information on PC Clones
Date: 10 Nov 92 13:43:52 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Eastman Kodak Co

I'm in the process of recommending a PC clone for our corporation. Any information other netters have
on their experiences with clones (Dell, Gateway, Compaq, etc., etc.) would be helpful. I'm interested
in your experiences with the system's reliability, construction, ease of access for repairs/upgrades,
technical support, speed, etc.

I've been following the discussions on Gateway and ATI and they have been useful, just need more on
other systems.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: rjones@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Ronald Jones)
Subject: Re: HP LaserJet 4
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 16:50:37 GMT

In article <mccleod.721021616@du248-13.cc.iastate.edu> mccleod@iastate.edu (PRS Axe) writes:
>
>The above info is all correct,  here at ISU the educational price is $1294 
>w/out PS or Appletalk. I think it's like around $1700 with the above 
>mentioned. :)
>We have a demo in the MPC and it is a beautiful machine :) IMHO of course.
>I used to think that the 300 dpi from laser printers was something else, but
>when I saw the 600 dpi I was flabergasted. heh
>Looks like everyone will be on the chase for hp now.
>I also now have ed. pricing for all the accesories, if you are intrested
>respond here. :)
>-- 

Has anyone been able to compare the HP 4 to the Lexmark (IBM) 10P, which
has 600*600 Postscript? It looks like the street price of the HP will be
cheaper than the 10P but $1700 sounds too good to be true! This is going 
to start a round of price cuts I'm sure.

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From: raymond@kronos.arc.nasa.gov (Eric A. Raymond)
Subject: Re: Cyrix 486DLC, Soundblaster Pro and do_cache.exe
Organization: NASA/ARC Information Sciences Division
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 23:46:23 GMT

ti@bazooka.amb.org (Ti Kan) writes:

>I have been using my 386 system (upgraded to a Cyrix 486DLC CPU chip)
>for a couple of days and have discovered a problem...

>If I run with the do_cache.exe program which enables the 486DLC internal
>cache, the performance improvement is dramatic.  However, enabling
>the cache causes the Soundblaster Pro board to misbehave.  Namely,
>various programs that talk to the SBPro complains about "cannot detect
>DMA channel" or somesuch.

>If I run without running do_cache.exe, then the SBPro works fine.

DMA messes up the consistency on the cache.  That is, the
memory is updated but the cache contains the old value.  I don't think
there is much you can do.

Why don't you just turn off the cache when starting up SBPro and then
on again upon exit with a batch file?

P.S.  Where did you get your chip?  How much was it?  Does it put out
      any more heat than the equivalent Intel chip?  (I want to put it
      in a laptop).
From: bomr@erich.triumf.ca (Rod Nussbaumer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: HP laserjet printing
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Date: 12 Nov 1992 08:11 PST
Organization: TRIUMF: Tri-University Meson Facility
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: erich.triumf.ca
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

In article <do-minh-111192151944@je-college-node.net.yale.edu>, do-minh@suned.cs.yale.edu (Minh Do) writes...
>I would like to dump print files to an HP LaserJet III.  I generate my
>output on  one machine using WinWord running under Windows 3.1. The other
>machine is hooked up to a machine with no Windows.  I would like to print
>to a file, and then take it over to the printer connected machine to dump
>it to print.  What I get usually, is a half a page of mixed up output.
> 
>I tried using "copy file.hp lpt1" and "print file.hp" without success.
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	Try   "copy /b file.hp lpt1:".  This will prevent the copy
	command from translating things like newlines, tabs, control-Z's,
	etc.  Consult your DOS manual for more detail.

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From: arc5@chempc0.york.ac.uk (Alastair Cargill)
Subject: Problems with Conner 3204 Hard Drive
Organization: University of York, UK
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 19:51:43 GMT
X-Posted-From: chempc0.york.ac.uk
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

Hi

I have a 200Mb Conner hard drive which when purchased gave a throughput of 
approximately 1Mb/sec with various benchmarks. Now it only gives approx 650-
700 Kb/sec. The drive has been defragmented and I wouldn't have thought this 
would make a difference anyway (?). There is about 70Mb free on the drive 
and all the seek and track to track are the same. My initial diagnosis is 
that one of the cache chips on the hard drrive mother board has probably 
gone down. Is this a valid guess or would the drive die completly in this 
case.? Any suggestions gratefully accepted as the drive is still under 
guarentee

Cheers

Al
From: bryanw@rahul.net (Bryan Woodworth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: ** WANT INFO ON GENOA 7900 OR TSENG ET4000.. **
Date: 13 Nov 92 03:49:13 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: a2i network

HI, I'd like info on the Genoa 7900 board. It can do 1024x768x256,
800x600x65K (or maybe only 32K?) and 640x480x24bit.  

It uses a TSENG Et4000 hicolor chip along with some other proprietary
hardware. So if you use a TSENG ET4000 I'd also like to hear from you.

Stuff I'm interested in:

o Image clarity in 15bit (32K color.. or is that 65K color) and 24bit
  modes
o Programs you use
o How you think performance is in Windows 3.x
o Any other miscellaneous info

Thanks much.
bryanw@rahul.net (in case the .sig is broken :-)

-- 
Bryan Woodworth <bryanw@rahul.net>
From: Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Jim Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Multiple modems ... 
Distribution: world
Date: 8 Nov 92 20:14:26 EST
Organization: Amiga BitSwap Central Dispatch

In a message dated Sat  7 Nov 92 21:05, Jorgense@plains.nodak.edu (lee A. J
wrote:

 JAJ> Ok ... I have a Wyse 50 terminal hooked up to my phone line, and a
 JAJ> 286 with
 JAJ> an internal modem hooked up to the same line.  Both modems are 2400
 JAJ> baud.
 JAJ> I have them chained right now (my wyse is hooked to the wall and my
 JAJ> pc is hooked
 JAJ> to the other jack on the wyse's modem and a normal phone hooked up
 JAJ> to the
 JAJ> 2nd jack of the pc's modem). 

 JAJ> like:

 JAJ> W
 JAJ> a <----------WYSE <----------PC <----------Phone
 JAJ> l            MODEM         MODEM
 JAJ> l

 JAJ> (poor ascii art:)

 JAJ> Anyway, is there anyway I can use the Wyse to 'look' at the data if
 JAJ> I
 JAJ> connect with the PC to the mainframe, or can I use the PC's modem to
 JAJ> 'look'
 JAJ> at the data If I use my Wyse?

 JAJ> (in other words ... can I use two modems on the same line, on
 JAJ> different
 JAJ> machines, at the same time?)

Most communications are full duplex.  One modem is the "originating" modem
(usually yours), and the other modem is the "answering" modem (the
mainframe). The originating modem modulates one frequency to send, and
demodulates another frequency to receive.  The answering modem uses the
same frequencies, but reverses which one is used to send and which one is
used to receive.

After making a connection to the mainframe with your "primary" modem, you
could try typing "ATO" with your "secondary" modem (assuming your modems
are Hayes command compatible).  So long as the communications are full
duplex and the mainframe echos back everything you type, you should see
both sides of the communication after being sent by the mainframe.

Be careful to transmit *nothing* with the "secondary" modem.  The mainframe
will think it came from your "primary" modem, and your "primary" modem will
think it came from the mainframe.  Make sure your modem and comm program is
set to not respond to an ENQuiry request.

If the link is only half duplex, you will only be able to see one side of
the communication.  "ATO" will get you the mainframe side, and "ATA" will
get you the "primary" modem's side.

-- Via DLG Pro v0.995

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From: edwong@acs.nntp-read.bu.edu (Edward Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Bernoulli drive?
Date: 5 Nov 92 13:40:43 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Boston University Information Technology Boston, MA USA


Hi all,

	I want to know the performance and the reliability of a Bernoulli
drive? (i.e. the access time) Does any of you own one?  I am thinking of
buying a Bernoulli 90PRO.  There is one concern, if I eventually buy one,
then shall I treat it as a backup disk, or a hard disk?
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From: john@drd.com (John.Horeth)
Subject: Re: Is Gateway a publicly held company?  I think I'll short some stock...
Followup-To: john@DRD.com
Organization: DRD Corporation
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 20:32:34 GMT

Sounds like my story with CompuAdd except in this case they shipped the 
system in 10 days, but because I had bought a fairly large system they shipped
it Yellow Freight.  Now no one knows where my system is.

One good thing, the local salesman is trying every trick in the book to get
me a system by the end of the week.

The only reason they could not build the system here locally was the hardrive
and he is the process of trying to get one shipped to him from a store in
Canada.

Although I am upset at the delay, CompuAdd is at least trying to salvage it
as quickly as possible.
  

john@DRD.com             | John M. Horeth, II 
{uunet,rutgers}!drd!john | Horeth Programming Services, Inc. - (918)622-5594
                         | c/o DRD Corporation (918)743-3013
From: ja2f+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jinmo Ahn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Info/advice about COMPUDYNE notebooks?
Date: 12 Nov 92 03:34:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.Uf0ZpD200iV0A1G3Mb
Organization: Senior, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


Compudyne's customer service really stinks.

I would not buy another computer from then again.

Jim
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From: lebeld@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Lebel David)
Subject: ATI Ultra or Diamond SpeedStar 24X?
Organization: Universite de Montreal
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 00:42:49 GMT

	I'm about to buy an ISA 486/33 from a local clown vendor. However,
I do plan to get a videocard from them also, or maybe I could go to
mail-order to buy it. I've around 250$-300$ (maximum) to put on a 
accelerated card (in Canadian bills, so around 225$ to 275$ US). Someone
pointed me to the Diamond SpeedStar 24x as the fastest of its class and
PC Connection sells it for 179$ (pretty good price). However, I heard
that you cannot drive OS/2 in bigger resolutions (like 1024x768x256)
with it. Am I true?  I do plan to use OS/2 alot, along Windows and DOS. So I
want something good in every field.  Is the ATI Ultra smarter choice despite
the fact its slower?

	Is there any other alternatives?
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