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system: You are Bob Bainbridge, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Don Woodall about "Mouse on com3 problems?".

They wrote:
DW>       It is my understanding that in OS/2, the mouse HAS to be on
DW> COM 1.  Also, as has already been mentioned,  OS/2 loads the mouse
DW> driver before it loads the com ports.  The mouse and com ports use
DW> separate drivers.

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assistant: I ran a serial mouse on Com2 for a couple years before replacing with a PS/2
mouse. Warp 3.0 and 4.0 both detected it automatically. My modem is on Com1.
Bob Bainbridge <Team OS/2>
bob_bainbridge@prodigy.com bbainbridge@vnet.ibm.com
system: You are Don Johnson, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Don Woodall about "Re: Mouse on com3 problems?".

They wrote:
DW>       It is my understanding that in OS/2, the mouse HAS to be on COM
DW> 1.

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assistant: <* Don Woodall scribed these words to Trevor Davis *>
<* regarding "Mouse on com3 problems?" on Sat 18 Apr 1998  1:25a *>
Nope, been running my mouse on Com 4 since I installed OS/2.
DEVICE=C:\OS2\BOOT\MOUSE.SYS SERIAL=COM4
                                  Don Johnson
                              knights@mindless.com
system: You are Paul West, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Andrew Grillet about "Re: P-Pro/Mobo".

They wrote:
AG> It seems Pentium pro is a good buy for OS/2.
AG> Do they fit in the same mobo as P-II or MMX?
AG> Should I buy a dual processor board? Do I have to pay extra for SMP
AG> with warp4? (If so, I'd rather buy RAM).

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assistant: In a message to All <04-16-98 21:47> Andrew Grillet wrote:
IMHO I would MUCH rather have a PPRO than a P-II.  It's just a much better
chip.  It lacks MMX support, but who cares.
No.  The PPRO is a Socket-8 chip, the P-II is a SLOT-1.  You need a PPRO
specific motherboard.
SMP is currently not available for Warp 4.  For SMP with Warp you need Warp
Server Advanced, which uses the WARP-3 kernal.
Paul West - paulw@premier1.net
http://www.premier1.net/~paulw
Team OS/2  -  Bovine RC5 Team Warped
... Welcome to hell -- here's your copy of Windows!
system: You are Quentin Stephens, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Roy J. Tellason about "big drive potential prob".

They wrote:
RT> RT> I know this went around in here a while back,  but I forget what
RT> RT> the answer was...
RT> RT>
RT> RT> Is the use of a 6.4G drive going to cause me a problem?  What sort
RT> RT> of a problem, if so?
RT>
RT>  QS> EIDE or SCSI? If the former, you may need an updated .ADD
RT>  QS> file.
RT>
RT> The former.  Which file?  What date will do it?

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assistant: On Friday Roy J. Tellason said
Get the latest IBM1S506.ADD file from IBM/Hobbes/usual sources.
qts
Moderator FidoNet OSDebate
Home: qts@nildram.co.uk, qts@donor2.demon.co.uk.
UseNet users please use address in sig, from address is invalid.
system: You are Mike Ruskai, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Ari Kemppainen about "Bus Master problem".

They wrote:
AK> can't get bus master dma working with OS/2. HW:
AK> Asus VX97
AK> Seagate 33240A
AK> OS/2 (v4 with fp5) stops loading itself after os2dasd.dmd with a
AK> message which says that it can't operate hard disk or floppy.
AK> In linux the dma tranfer works fine, so what's the matter?

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assistant: Some senseless babbling from Ari Kemppainen to All
on 18 Apr 98  10:38:06 about Bus Master problem...
Do you have the latest bus master drivers?
The latest ones I know of are from January this year.  You can get them at
ftp://24.3.130.120/g/ren/dls/os2driv/idedasd.exe
Mike Ruskai SA/AG #1106
thanny@home.com
... And if she weighs as much as a duck?
system: You are Richie Molinelli, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to James Mckenzie about "Re: Cannon c2500".

They wrote:
JM>Hello Richie!
JM>
JM>17 Apr 98 16:54, Richie Molinelli wrote to Andrew Grillet:
JM>
JM> RM> Thanks.  I got a reply from Canon by e-mail that said we don't
JM>have  RM> any OS/2 software.  Well, I pulled the CANONOS2.EXE file
JM>off their  RM> website just to try it. ( guess they didn't check the
JM>web site ).  RM> While there I checked out the FAQes.  There was a
JM>question on NT and  RM> they told the person to select the 4000 or
JM>4100 as the driver and use  RM> the fax as stand alone.  That works
JM>here also. So at least I have a  RM> BJ4xxx color inkjet printer and
JM>a stand alone plain paper fax and  RM> copier.  Would be nice to get
JM>the scanner going under OS/2, but I  RM> figure at the price I paid
JM>for this thing, I'm already ahead of the  RM> game.  :)
JM>
JM>How did you get their printer driver to work?  I installed it to use
JM>with my BJC-620 and OS/2 complains to no end that it is not a valid
JM>printer driver. I'm running Warp4 with FP6 installed (maybe that is
JM>my problem...)
JM>James

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assistant: I'm running Warp 3 here.  I unarchived it to it's own directory, opened
my printer icon ( right click ), clicked on settings, right clicked on
an existing printer, selected install, selected other OS/2 printer
driver and changed the path to the directory where I installed the
driver and selected refresh.  I then selected the printer to install.  I
then made that printer the default printer, set the settings to my
liking and it worked right from there.
system: You are James Byrnes, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Install help".

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assistant: I had to buy my daughter a new hard drive and ended up with a 2 GB
Seagate.  Now Warp's Fdisk will not let me set a partition
"installable".
She has a home brew machine with a AMD 133mz cpu, AMI bios date
10/10/94 with 32MB ram.  The bios supports Auto IDE detection and LBA,
both of which were enabled.
I tried the following hard drive partitioning scheme:
c:    win95          fat    149mb
d:    win apps     fat    350mb
e:    os/2           hpfs   250mb
f:    os/s apps    hpfs   remaining space.
When trying to install os/2 Fdisk will only allow me to set C: as
installable,  on all other partitions that option is grayed out.
I assume I am up against the 1024 cyl limit, but thought the above
partitioning scheme would be ok.  I would appreciate any help you could
give me in installing os/2 on this drive.
Regards,  Jim
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 X KWQ/2 1.2i X I'm WARPed by choice
system: You are Will Honea, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Don Woodall about "Mouse on com3 problems?".

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assistant: Don Woodall wrote to Will Honea on 04-20-1998
With multiple ports using IRQ3, it had to have been SIO.  COMM.SYS
complains real loud at that.  I tried to get COMM.SYS to allow me to
assign an i/o port as com1 when the mouse already had the default com1
and never could get it to work.  Registered SIO and never looked back.
PMLM was worth the registration price and Vmodem has been a bonus :-}
Will Honea <whonea@codenet.net>
system: You are Lynn Nash, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Richie Molinelli about "Twain driver".

They wrote:
RM>Anyone know where I can pick up a Twain Driver for OS/2?

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assistant: It depends on what you want to do with it, and what programs that you
wish to run. There is a close association between TWAIN and the
application that uses it. There is TWAIN for OS/2 from solution
technologies which works with several programs and scanners and there
are inexpensive programs like Copyshop/2 or Applause which include their
own TWAIN drivers for OS/2 and winOS/2.  You should check Indelible Blue
or J3 on the WEB for further information.
 *****************
                            TWAIN for OS/2* - README.TWN
system: You are Richie Molinelli, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Jonathan De Boyne Poll about "Re: Cases for atx motherbo".

They wrote:
JD> WH>                      All it takes is changing out one
JD>motherboard in  WH> one of those pissant mini - or even mid -
JD>'towers' to reaffirm my  WH> resolve.
JD>
JD>Ever been inside a "slimline" desktop case where you have to take
JD>out all of the cards before you can access the disc cables?  It
JD>makes pushing in a loose
JD>cable, a trivial operation in a tower case, into a major expedition.

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assistant: And all the newer mini and mid tower AT cases I have seen ( which
probably isn't a whole h*ll of a lot compared to what's out there ),
have removable mounting plates(?) to mount the motherboard to so it's as
easy as 1-2-3 to replace/install a motherboard.  Just remove 1 or 2
screws, slide the plate out, mount the board, slide it back in and
replace the locking screws.  When there are cards installed ( on a
replacement ), you remove them to get them out of the way ( and you'd
have to remove them anyway ).  Even in the $20USA on up cases.  :)
Most times I convince the user of an older computer who is having a new
motherboard, cpu and memory upgrade to go for the new case.  Makes life
a heck of a lot easier.  ( I've even "donated" a new $20USA case when
it's been to my benefit )
system: You are Alan Lo, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "os/2 hardware installation (thanks)".

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assistant: Well I would just like to thanks all those who responded.  I haven't
taken any of your advice yet, but I'm sure with such feed back one of the
solutions should work (probably all of them).  So thanks guys!
     Alan
... "Bother" said Pooh as he heard the trip wire click
system: You are Trevor Davis, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Mouse on com3 problems?".

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assistant: Hi All,
I am running OS/2 2.1 and have a modem on Com1 and Com2 and a mouse on
Com3. I am running SIO and have the following SIO commands in config.sys
DEVICE=C:\SIO\SIO.SYS  (COM1:38400,3F8,4,-,F) (COM2:38400,2F8,3,-,F)
(COM4:38400
,2E8,9,-,F)
DEVICE=C:\SIO\VSIO.SYS
DEVICE=C:\SIO\VX00.SYS
also mouse commands....
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VMOUSE.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\POINTDD.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MOUSE.SYS SERIAL=COM3
well the problem is when the power goes off ,no UPS :-(
and the machine fires up when it comes back on, when trying to load the
SIO drivers it says com1 is in use, this then locks up the system with an
error
message about the com port violation.
If I warm boot the next time it can be ok, sometimes not but after a few
warm boots it works ok.
I'll probably end up using the PS/2 mouse port but I'd like to know why it
boots up this way and a way to reserve com3 for the mouse.
Thanks
___
 |revor Davis - SysOp
system: You are Jonathan Michaels, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Lee Aroner about "drink coaster conspiracy.".

They wrote:
JM>>>> i have my old nt v3.51 cd's, will they make good frisbies
JM>>>> ?
JM>>> do i hear a better than $USD200 offer ?
JM>>> its only to cover shipping costs, you know.
JM>> really, go ask your local fedex depot what 35 air kilograms
JM>> (priority,
>> security) will cost to ship from the qantas airfreight depot
>> in sydeny then add some $USD50 for the courier fees from my
>> door to the qantas terminal.
JM>> excuse me, but, i didn't say it was/would be cheaper than
JM>> you could pick it up
>> locally at a barns and noble.
JM>> o well looks like i'll keep them as drink coasters, or a
JM>> reminder  for things
>> long past and times not all that bad.
JM>> sorry for being short, its the wrong time of week, and i may
JM>> have missread your
>> responce.

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assistant: sorry all this bounced by netmail
for this not intresed in this contuing saga plese skip to next.
Hello LEE!
Saturday April 11 1998 09:19, LEE ARONER wrote to JONATHAN MICHAELS:
 LA >>>> NT on the same box just runs like a dog.
 LA >>>  Nah. Some lemming will pay for them.
 LA >>>  If you don't want em, send em to me...
 LA >>   Uh, yeah, shipping costs, sure.
 LA >> No thanks, already got more copies than we need around
 LA >> here.
 LA >    Hey, no problem. What about via just plain regular mail?
thats still about $AUD50 or so .. its not a small package, and it would go
seamail and take some 3 months to get thier.
 LA >  I know of a church group that could use em, and I would pay you for
 LA > the postage?
church group .. ouch, that hurt .. after the savaging i got from a couple i
want noting to do with church groups .. particualarly fundamentalists.
thats ok brother god will reward you in heaven .. meanwhile i starve trying
o
make ends meet after they pay me fees with the 'goodness of thier hearts'
 LA >                                          LRA
 LA >  -- SPEED 2.00 #2720: type DEL *.* for higher access
 LA > -+- Platinum Xpress/Win/Wildcat5! v2.0
 LA >  + Origin: Memory Alpha - (253) 859-6200 (1:343/311)
Jonathan
... i do what i can, with what i have, are you able to say the same ?
system: You are Richie Molinelli, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Andrew Grillet about "Re: Cannon c2500".

They wrote:
AG> RM> Does anyone know where I can get the TWAIN driver for the
AG>Cannon  RM> C2500  MultiPass Printer/Scanner/Fax/Copier?  Also, is
AG>there a printer  RM> driver  available for it?  Thanks in advance.
AG>
AG>I would like the same for a C20.
AG>
AG>
AG>Incidentally Cannon said the C20 is compatible with the BJC4200.
AG>
AG>I am currently using the standard BJC4000 driver. It works fine
AG>except you have to put the C20 in DOS mode. Sometimes it forgets its
AG>in DOS mode if the PC is powered down for long periods! To recover,
AG>you have to put the printer out of DOS mode and back in!
AG>
AG>Cannon telephone help appear unable to support Win 3.1, never mind
AG>OS/2, but their BBS does actually mention OS/2. Not much use though.

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assistant: Thanks.  I got a reply from Canon by e-mail that said we don't have any
OS/2 software.  Well, I pulled the CANONOS2.EXE file off their website
just to try it. ( guess they didn't check the web site ).  While there
I checked out the FAQes.  There was a question on NT and they told the
person to select the 4000 or 4100 as the driver and use the fax as stand
alone.  That works here also.  So at least I have a BJ4xxx color inkjet
printer and a stand alone plain paper fax and copier.  Would be nice to
get the scanner going under OS/2, but I figure at the price I paid for
this thing, I'm already ahead of the game.  :)
system: You are Andrew Grillet, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Paul West about "P-Pro/Mobo".

They wrote:
-=> On 19 Apr 98  16:01:02 Paul West said to Andrew Grillet <=-
PW> In a message to All <04-16-98 21:47> Andrew Grillet wrote:
PW> IMHO I would MUCH rather have a PPRO than a P-II.  It's just a much
PW> better  chip.  It lacks MMX support, but who cares.
PW> The PPRO is a Socket-8 chip, the P-II is a SLOT-1.  You need a
PW> PPRO  specific motherboard.
AG> Should I buy a dual processor board? Do I have to pay extra for SMP
AG> with warp4? (If so, I'd rather buy RAM).
PW> SMP is currently not available for Warp 4.  For SMP with Warp you need
PW> Warp  Server Advanced, which uses the WARP-3 kernal.

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assistant: Hi Paul,
Certainly not me. I do not use games. I do not have a sound card, and
if I wanted 'Video-in-a-window' I'd watch TV.
Any specific ones to choose?
I have Warp4 but have never been able to use it. I have tried it on each
of the 3 machines I have here, and each one has a different problem. Warp
3 runs fine on all of them. (Connect on 2) I also have Lan Server.
Andrew
... A KGB keyboard has no <ESC> key.
system: You are Andrew Grillet, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Mark Lewis about "P-Pro/Mobo".

They wrote:
-=> On 22 Apr 98  18:25:58 mark lewis said to Nicky Morrow <=-
>> It seems Pentium pro is a good buy for OS/2.
>> Do they fit in the same mobo as P-II or MMX?
NM> No.  Pentium Pro chips fit only on socket 8 mobos.
ml> FWIW: there are special Socket8->SLOT1 adapters available... i don't
ml> know where but i have heard about them and even read about them on one
ml> or two of the trade rags...

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assistant: Hi Mark,
Probably as cheap as SIMM savers too :-)
And you really need the extra capacitance on your bus lines.
Ideal for a 4.77 MHz PC, but I would not expect it to work well at
Pentium speeds.
Andrew
... MONEY TALKS... and I want to say hello to yours.
system: You are Peyton Bay, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "which scsi card?".

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assistant: I'm putting together a new system and wonder if anybody has experience
and/or information as to the relative merits of the following
inexpensive (less than $100) scsi cards which are, I believe, all
designed around the  Symbios xxx875 chip. :
 Diamond Fireport 40
 Asus SC875
 Tekram DC39x (I'm not sure about the number for this one)
Are they pretty much the same, in which case it comes down to price,
or are there qualitative differences? Opinions please. TIA
Peyton
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system: You are Carl Arnett, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Test".

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assistant: Test
 "Sarge"     E-Mail. Carl Arnett@201.gratisnet.com
... ON GUARD BBS, 918-291-2849. FidoNet 1:170/201, Featuring Tradewars
system: You are Mike Roark, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to James Byrnes about "Install help".

They wrote:
MR>> E Logical OS/2  HPFS
MR>> F Logical OS/2 apps HPFS
JB> That's what it looks like, sorry I wasn't more explicit in my original
JB> message.  Thanks for your input.  I thought it would work also.  She
JB> brought the machine home again so later today I will try out some of
JB> the ideas people were kind enough to give me.

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assistant: Hello James!
Saturday April 25 1998 12:54, James Byrnes wrote to Mike Roark:
If even part of the suggestions from the folks in this area help, you will
have it working. I've been playing with mine, and I think that right now, I
can boot to 4 operating systems. Plus a maintence partition of OS/2.. Just in
case I mangle my primary OS/2 install, I can re-boot, go to the maintence
partition and keep the system running. Then I can fix what I broke.. ;-)
Have a good day!!
Mike
Internet bcomber@cave.fido.de
system: You are James Mckenzie, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Peyton Bay about "which scsi card?".

They wrote:
PB> I'm putting together a new system and wonder if anybody has experience
PB> and/or information as to the relative merits of the following
PB> inexpensive (less than $100) scsi cards which are, I believe, all
PB> designed around the  Symbios xxx875 chip. :
PB>  Diamond Fireport 40
PB>  Asus SC875
PB>  Tekram DC39x (I'm not sure about the number for this one)

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assistant: Hello Peyton!
27 Apr 98 16:56, Peyton Bay wrote to all:
The TekRam 390U/F/W has current drivers (I'm using a 390F/U card here).
Works great under OS/2 and Windows95...
James
... Windows 95 Error:017 Keyboard locked.  Try anything you can think of.
system: You are Don Woodall, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Peyton Bay about "which scsi card?".

They wrote:
PB>I'm putting together a new system and wonder if anybody has
PB>experience and/or information as to the relative merits of the
PB>following inexpensive (less than $100) scsi cards which are, I
PB>believe, all designed around the  Symbios xxx875 chip. :
PB>
PB> Diamond Fireport 40
PB> Asus SC875
PB> Tekram DC39x (I'm not sure about the number for this one)
PB>
PB>Are they pretty much the same, in which case it comes down to
PB>price, or are there qualitative differences? Opinions please.
PB>TIA
PB>

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assistant: In a message dated 04-27-98, Peyton Bay said to all:
Peyton
     I have two ASUS "PCI-SC875"'s.  I also had a no name PCI SCSI
card which used the NCR 53C810 chip.  When I called Symbios Tech
Support about the 810 card, he told me that the two best brands of
NCR/Symbios chipset cards to get are ASUS and DTC.  He claimed
that they are the only two companies "humble enough" [my words] to
accept Symbios engineering help in the design of their products.
     Based on that, I would recommend the ASUS "PCI-SC875."  I
forget what the model number of the DTC card is, but if it is
layed out as the pictures appears to suggest, it is a bad layout
design with the 50 pin and 68 pin connectors on top of one
another, only at right angles to each other.
Don Woodall
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 * MR/2 * I'm an OS/2 developer...I don't NEED a life!