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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: Where the mac really wins
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 19:43:45 GMT

In article <1ftmu0INN1jk@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> an780@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Travis Grundke) writes:
>
>In a previous article, bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown) says:

> Nice excuse to use. Got anything less objective. I could care less who the
>reviewer was, its got information down there. So in otherwords your 486 is
>the best DTP/graphics workstation? Doesn't do diddly without the best
>software optimized for that platform. Pagemaker, Illustrator, etc. are
>"Optimized' to be used on a Mac...they are merely "ported" to the PC.
   
Any proof? I've heard that the reverse is true these days. They've
ported Excel 4 from Windows to the Mac. Same with WinWord 2. I prefer
to run Pagemaker under Windows on a 486/25 than a Mac IICi. The 486
is even cheaper.


>>1280x1024x256 1024x768x32K 800x600x16.7M 640x480x16.7M
>>
>>all accelerated, all for $350?  
>>
> And find me a good quality PC video card that can for $350- name please.
>There are many 3rd party cards which do ("m not positive however) meet
>those specs in the $350-$1000 range....SuperMac, Radius, Lapis to name a
>few.

Diamond Speedstar 24X. Based on Paradise's accelerator chipset. $155
mailorder, $190 local Mom'n'Pop Clone.





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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: bob1@cos.com (Bob Blackshaw)
Subject: Re: Leaving machine on 24hrs??
Organization: Corporation for Open Systems
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 14:52:41 GMT

In <1992Dec15.062600.8054@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> kotsines@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Tom Kotsines) writes:

>In article <2B2D2A03.23733@news.service.uci.edu> eapu168@orion.oac.uci.edu (Lee Furnival) writes:
>>I am in the process of advising someone in the purchase of a new pc and
>>have a question regarding extending the life of the chips.  We will be
>>getting a clone 486DX-33.  There are 2 cooling fans in a mid-tower case
>>and I am going to install a fan/heatsink on the CPU.  Question:
>>
>Well I'm sure your system will be quite cool with 3 fans on it, but I'm not
>sure if you really need that many.  Unless you plan to have all your card
>slots filled and many drives, your system probably won't get hot.  I have
>a 486/50 with 2 fans in a tower case and the air coming out the back is
>never noticibly hotter than room temp.  Plus you'll be wasting a lot more 
>electricity if you do plan to leave it on 24 hrs/day.

>[/]

And you will be wasting your monitor, even with a screen saver. I have
only ever seen one monitor with a cooling fan (DG 6405), and those
puppies get hot. Also, your hard drive is electro-mechanical and will
wear out its bearings faster (I would hate to tell you how many hard
drives I've had to spin up simply because they were left on 24 hrs/day,
even weekends - then there is a storm Friday night and Monday morning
the drive won't spin :-( ).

I run my system when I'm using it, never leaving it more than about
a half hour idle, and it runs better than any 24 hour system I've
ever had to fix.

Bob.
From: iservice@sw.stratus.com (Ian Service)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Com2: 16550 Vanishes How do I get it bacK?
Date: 11 Dec 92 12:46:19 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: greenock.sw.stratus.com

After I use my COM1 port a 16550 with software that recognises it and
uses the FIFO I sometimes (maybe always) loose the com port afterwards.
MSD fails to see anything and it is not listed after a control-alt-delete
reboot.It only comes back after a power cycle.

I assume its just msd etc. being fooled by the state the chip is left in. Is
there a handy dandy way or utillity to reset it?

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From: SPGJAF@CMSA.Berkeley.Edu (Joseph A. Faracchio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Need help on TEAC 720K dip switches
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 14:44:56 PST
Organization: UC Berkeley (TCPIP)
NNTP-Posting-Host: cmsa.berkeley.edu

In article <1glb33INN872@savoy.cc.williams.edu>
93gke@williams.edu (oldwanda) writes:
 
>There is a mass of DIPs on the back of the TEAC 720k floppy drive.
 
Number I have for teac are:
 
teac america (fd repair) 213 727 7616 susan/patty 7733 Telegraph Road
teac inc montebello ca 90640 (tech sprt788/682) 213 726 0303  x616 repair
 
try the 788 or 682 extensions
They offer an out of warranty flat rate repair fee (last I checked it was
about $30.00 with no questions asked.   It makes it worth buying Teac.
 
good luck ! .. joe.f.
From: aoki@risk.stanford.edu (ikuro aoki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: VLB requires wait-states???
Date: 20 Dec 92 22:02:20 GMT
Organization: Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
NNTP-Posting-Host: risk.stanford.edu
In-reply-to: keiths@cae.wisc.edu's message of 20 Dec 92 13:57:44 CST

Hi all,

  >>What it sounds like he was saying is that all VESA machines 
  >>have memory wait states.

According to what I know, this is not correct.
To ensuer 0 wait state for VESA local bus peripheral devices,
the memory which has an access time less than 60ns/40ns is 
necessary for 33MHz/50MHz*1 VESA bus clock systems with very
tight timing margins.
(*1 50MHz peripheral slots are not reccommended from the VESA)

But, some graphic cards which have a good memory system design
are working with 0 wait states.

I don't have any idea about the Zeos machines, sorry.
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Ikuro Aoki
aoki@risk.Stanford.EDU
From: assist@orion.oac.uci.edu (ASSIST Coordination Site)
Subject: Parity Errors - HELP!!!!
Summary: I need someone to define the difference between Parity Check 1 and 2 er
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Keywords: parity memory help
Date: 16 Dec 92 22:58:51 GMT

Could someone define for me the difference between a Parity Check 1 and a Parity Check 2 error on an old true-blue 6mhz IBM PC-AT.

I can't remember if the difference is in the memory area, or something else.

I don't want to be a pain, but any quick responses would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks much
Eric Taggart
University of California

No silly sigs.

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From: comptec91025@camins.camosun.bc.ca (Ian Hobday)
Subject: WANTED: TI TM2000 Memory
Organization: Camosun College
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 20:30:00 GMT

I have purchased a Texas Instruments TM2000 notebook, and am going to want to
expand its memory from the current 1Mb.  Does anyone know of a cheap source 
for the 1Mb modules?  The cheapest I have seen is $89 in CS...anyone seen 
better or know of some used ones?  I might even buy two if the price is right
(the max memory for this machine is 3Mb). 

Thanks,

Ian.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: gting@fraser.sfu.ca (Gabriel Sii Kuok Ting)
Subject: Re: Is UltraSound any good?
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 08:16:16 GMT

vovut@prism.CS.ORST.EDU writes:

>Hi, all

>Has anyone ever seen/used the UltraSound sound board (by Logitech?) ?
>How does it compare with Sounb Blaster/SB Pro/Thunder Board/Pro Audio?

Check out comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard for a more detailed description of
this fantastic soundcard. Or you can ftp to archive.epas.utoronto.ca
(128.100.160.36) and get a few reviews from the pub/pc/ultrasound directory.

First off, the Gravis UltraSound is made by Advanced Gravis, an affiliate of
Logitech and offers the most bang for the buck in any sound card range. 
There are quite a big number of us UltraSound owners on the net, and 
we will be more than happy to offer you any details about the card.
Basically in its native mode, the GUS(as it is affectionately called) beats
the pants off the SB/SBPro/TB/PAS16 and the like but the SB emulation
software is still being improved.(It still has a few problems with one or two
games that support the SB) 

Software support for the GUS in native mode is still but a few, with only
Star Control 2 and Chuck Yeager's Flight Combat being the only two at the 
time being. (For a card which is about 2 months old, this is quite a lot...)
More will be forthcoming...

>Any recommendations for a good sound board?
Good is pretty subjective nowadays. What do you want it for? Playing the 
current SB games? MIDI? As I said, you can get a lot more info in csip.soundcard.


>Trung
>vovut@prism.cs.orst.edu

Gab.
gting@sfu.ca
From: atheist@Feline.CAD.UCLA.EDU (Jim Small)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: micropolis ide hd
Date: 11 Dec 92 03:48:42 GMT
Organization: U.C.L.A. Computer Aided Design Laboratory

We managed to nuke our cmos and partition table a while back on our
Micropolis 56 mb hde,  i believe it has 977 cylinders and 7 heads 

does anyone remember or know the cmos settings for this drive?

please e-mail a reply
From: ma90alb@brunel.ac.uk (Ashley L Brandwood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: High pitch squeal with Speedstar 24x and NEC 4FG
Date: 18 Dec 92 13:24:50 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

Chien-Chung Chen (joy@quip.eecs.umich.edu) wrote:
: In article <76837@hydra.gatech.EDU> dsrekrg@prism.gatech.EDU (Rob Gibson) writes:
: >I am running a 24x with a 4FG and get an unnerving squeal similar and slightly
: >louder than  a TV set when using the 72 Hz refresh modes. 
: >Thisiis especially noticeable when going to a full-screen DOS session from 
: >Windows and back. 
: >Is that just the way it is with the 4FG?
: >
: >-- 
: >Rob Gibson, WREK 91.1 MHz, 40000 watts - Georgia Tech, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
: >Studio: 404/894-2468  FAX: 404/853-3066  ARPA: dsrekrg@prism.gatech.edu

: It's not likely that a monitor or video card makes the noise because none of
: them have speakers. However, the intermodulation of frequencies inside PC
: may cause PC's sounding devices to make noise. Two possible sources of noise
: are PC's speaker and modem.

: It could be the problem of modem. Disconnect the modem to see if the noise
: still exists. My PC used to sqeal before I replaced the cheap modem with
: a better one.

: -- Chien-Chung Chen

On the contrary, Monitors (and TVs) have been known for a long time to produce a very high pitch squeal.  (due to the electronic inside them).  However, a lot of people are unable to high these squeals because they occur just on the upper 
limit of the human hearing range.
If the noise *IS* from the monitor then tough, I do not know of a way to stop it(I returned my original monitor to the supplier because the squeal was so 
annoying).  It is unlikely that the noise is from the internal bleeper as these require a reasonable current to drive them.  Try the monitor on a different 
machine if you can, as this will prove whether or not it is the monitor.

-Ashley
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From: ifai645@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Paul C. Janzen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Adaptec 1542B Question
Date: 17 Dec 92 01:45:04 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin

In article <1992Dec09.194049.7866@adaptx1.UUCP> neese@adaptx1.UUCP (Roy Neese) writes:
>Do not use this upgrade package if you intend on using another OS other
>than DOS as most of the non-DOS drivers are canned to use the 64 head by
>32 sector translation.


I thought that most Unices (for the 386) popped into protected mode
and ignored the Bios translation after that. So it doesn't really
matter what translation you pick: the driver talks to the SCSI drive
in a fundamentally different manner than BIOS. I know that this is the
case for Linux. The only software that cares about the head/sector
translation is the partitioning software and the boot-from-harddisk
software. 

I don't know about other operating systems, though. 

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From: awb@ed.ac.uk (Alan W Black)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Seagate jumpers for master/slave combination
Date: 14 Dec 92 08:18:30 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Dept of AI, Edinburgh University, UK


I currently have a seagate ST1239a (211M) IDE drive on a generic
pc clone (Reeves) and wish to add an ST3283a (245) IDE drive as
a slave drive on the same controller.  I have the details for
the ST3283a driver about jumper settings for master/slave combination
but no details for the original ST1239a driver.

Can anyone tell me what jumpers I need to set to make a seagate ST1239a
a master drive (with slave attached) ?

many thanks

Alan


Alan W Black                          2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, UK
Centre for Cognitive Science          tel: (+44) -31 650 4627
University of Edinburgh               email: awb@ed.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: goyal@utdallas.edu (MOHIT K GOYAL)
Subject: Novice question about VL-Bus, ISA, & Busmastering.
Organization: Univ. of Texas at Dallas
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 19:40:42 GMT

Hello.

I have a motherboard with 1 VL-Bus slot.

It currently does not have a card in it.

I plan on putting a video card in it...sometime...

Anyways, my question is:

Can a busmastering SCSI controller (Adaptec) and a busmastering VL-Bus card
be used with 0 problems?

Oh yeah, the motherboard is ISA.

I currently have a 16-bit Tseng ET4000 & a 16-bit IDE controller.

I was looking at purchasing an Adaptec or Ultrastor busmastering SCSI-II
controller.

I know that an ISA system will crash if two cards try to "busmaster" at
the same time...I don't know if it will crash if one card is ISA and the
other is VL-Bus.

Thanks.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM
Subject: Re: Question on the Pro Audio Spectrum Plus's SCSI interface *?*
Organization: Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc.
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 17:37:10 GMT

In <BzF78K.21K@cs.uiuc.edu>, Ching Tai writes:

>Hi,     I'm wondering if the SCSI interface on the Pro Audio Spectrum
>Plus is a standard SCSI interface, i.e. can I hang a hard drive, etc.
>off of it?

Yes, it's a standard SCSI interface, and yes, you can hang a hard drive from
it.  However, the transfer rate of the SCSI interface on the PAS cards is
only about 690K (?) per second.  That probably isn't a high enough throughput
for a new SCSI drive.  It does work, but the SCSI interface was probably
intended for CD-ROM devices, most of which have a current transfer rate of
300K/sec or less.

>Has anyone done it?

I'd be curious if they have.  I'm willing to bet that performance would suffer
a hit, but that a large (2 MB or more) disk cache would help.


Tim Irvin
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From: fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu (Faisal Nameer Jawdat)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.intel,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: RISC defined! Was Re: 486SLC chip.... what is it?
Date: 13 Dec 92 10:36:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.Uf_tvJW00WB7Q8SnFj
	<1992Dec13.150243.26083@eng.umd.edu>
Organization: Sophomore, Physics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:
> Then how did Sun move from the Sun 3 to the Sparc?  The Sparc doesn't
> run 680X0 stuff at all.

Through the wonders of unix, wherein the same code was for the most
part still usable, with substantial speed improvement.  It's fairly
hard to do that with hardware dependent operating systems like dos,
windows, os/2 (currently), macos, etc.

> Hmm... Does the 80386 run 4004 or 8008 code?

It doesn't need to, because at the time those chips were made, the
market was not there for upgrading, etc.  If you bought new computers,
they were new, and you started over.  Now people have an investment in
their machines to such an extent that starting over would be
prohibitive.

-- faisal jawdat                  | "Certainly the game is rigged.
email: fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu       | Don't let that stop you;
if mail handler barfs             | if you don't bet, you can't win." 
fj05@andrew.cmu.edu               |        -Lazarus Long
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: rvuori@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Rasmus Vuori)
Subject: Re: AMD rubbish????
Organization: University of Helsinki
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 20:55:30 GMT

Actually I'm running my 486-33 at this moment without the external cache -
and norton sysinfo 6.0 gives me 72 times the speed of an pc/xt, the same it
gives with most other 486-33 with the cache on i've used.

I disabled the external cache because it wasn't working reliably
(propably a fried memory chip) and put in 8 megs of 60 ns SIMMS, using
interleaving the motherboard can access the memory very fast!
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mtichy@fraser.sfu.ca (Martin Tichy)
Subject: Re: Adaptec 1542 Throughput
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 08:13:36 GMT

> How fast have you people out there been able to get TRUE transfer
> rates on the Adaptec 1542 SCSI bus mastering controller?
> 
> I have mine hooked into a 16 bit slot to a Maxtor 7120S and I'm
> getting transfer rates of slightly less than 800KB/sec.

What benchmark are you using?  Coretest 2.8 I think, gives me
2800KB/sec with my Quantum 240S. Maybe it was 1800, can't remember but
it was over 1000 that's for sure.


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: Amiga now kicks PC butt.
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 00:09:11 GMT

In article <1992Nov29.154531.4346@global.hacktic.nl> peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser) writes:
>davei@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Mr D Ingles) writes:
>
>>And how about an explination why it doesn't sell as well as the 486's if
>>it 'kicks the '486 rear all over the place.'
>
>Because it's partly a proprietary system, just like IBM's PS/2s. Open Systems
>are the way to go. Look at what is going to happen with Sparc systems the next
>few years...

The biggest reason, perhaps, is lack of software. What sells computers
isn't fancy video stuff, its office productivity software. Sad but true..


9-)



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: SCSI HD for MAC & PC
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 23:56:30 GMT

In <1992Dec11.200146.6758@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> 12100z@d1.dartmouth.edu (Tom Buskey) writes:

>><AGCKK@ASUACAD.BITNET> writes:
>> Does MAC use the same type of SCSI HD as PC use ?

>I have a Syquest 88MB that I use on a Mac SE/30 and a PC w/ an Adaptec
>1542b.  On the PC I can use a DOS formatted cartridge.  On the mac,
>running Access PC I can use DOS & Mac formatted cartridges.  I have also
>used an EMAC 60T teac tape drive (from the MAC) on the PC with GNU Tar.
> 
>I think early Macs could run drives that supported only a subset of SCSI
>& those drives might not work w/ the PCs.  But any of the newer
>removable drives will certainly work.  And (newer) regular hard drives
>will work if you reformat.

I thought this was the other way around.  Anyway, my girlfriend has a
Mac Classic (I think).  Anyway, I hooked my 44 MB Bernouli up to it
and tried to use the system software on the Mac to format it.  Claimed
that there was no drive out there.  The Bernoulli works fine as a
generic SCSI device on my machine (AHA-1740 SCSI-II controller).

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: kotsines@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Tom Kotsines)
Subject: Re: Win 3.1 drivers for Diamond Stealth in 1024x1280 mode
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 05:55:30 GMT

In article <stellabo.724800521@phage.cshl.org> stellabo@phage.cshl.org (Fred Stellabotte) writes:
>
>The card was shipped with only 5 f drivers ..
>none of the drivers for Win 3.1 will work 
>in the 1024x1280 mode ...
>
Yes I had the same dissapointment... apparently the highest resolution driver
they have for Win 3.1 is 1024x768, and I don't think there's any plans for
a 1280x1024x16 driver, as much as it would do justice to all of our 17" 
monitors.

[/]
From: glazo@aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu (LAZO,GERARD)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: What's the DEAL with IBM ValuePoint?
Keywords: Where's the Value in ValuePoint?
Date: 16 Dec 92 19:28:00 GMT
Organization: University of Oklahoma - University Computing Services
Originator: usenet@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mccormac@ee.usafa.af.mil (Chris McCormack)
Subject: NEC Any Good?
Reply-To: mccormac@pooh.usafa.af.mil
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 22:34:25 GMT

   I'm shopping around to replace an old, creaky XT with a 486 before starting a PhD
program next summer.  Unfortunately, it's very easy to get wrapped up in all the hype
about different systems and what they do and do not have.
   One system that looked pretty good was the NEC PowerMate 433 (486/33MHz) that comes
bundled with a 240 MB drive, 8MB RAM and a NEC 3FGx monitor for $2499 direct from NEC.
Does anyone have any comments about this system, or what I should look at as an
alternative.
   By the way, the main use for this computer will be numerical analysis (Matlab,
possibly Maple), and document preparation.
						Chris McCormack
						mccormac@ee.usafa.af.mil