waashk/20ng huggingface dataset:
I'm looking for a complete hw/sw solution: I need an ISA/VLB scsi controller (e.g Ultrastor 34F) plus a tape drive (500Mb or less like Archive) plus a Windows program that will work on these.  My intended system will have 32Mb RAM so plain ISA controllers will no longer do. But I also hear that the SCSI world is not very organized.  So does anybody have a tape backup setup like what I'm looking for ? Please describe it.  Thanks. e-mail please.
I have just a few quick questions.  Does anyone here have a 486 DLC system? (a Cyrix 486 DX)  Any problems with it?   Second, how much should a Cyric 486DLC-33 motherboard (with no RAM) run me?   3rd...Should a total amatuer (like myslef) be able to perform a motherboard swap without the aid of a technician, or is it beyond hope? 4th...I hear that some (if not all) hard drives may require reformatting if you switch them to another computer (or motherboard as the case may be).  Is there any truth to this?
hello,  for 2 months I've unsuccessfully attempted to get either a 3rd or 4th serial port working on my system.  various systems diagnostics (e.g., MSD, Norton) tell me it's there, but anything I hook up to it can't use it  I have two serial ports on the motherboard  if I set my internal FAX/modem for com4 the utility programs report a COM3  I've checked to make sure all the IRQs and addresses are correctly (as listed in most manuals) set  am I missing something very basic?  where should I go from here?  any help, even a point in the right direction, would be most appreciated.
In article <1993Apr17.201300.19312@sernews.raleigh.ibm.com> europa@tomcat.raleigh.ibm.com (Welch Bryan) writes: >My fiance has a pc-junior and wants to upgrade to a full 386.  Does anyone >know if we could use the monitor it came with on a new machine?  I heard >it's MCGA or EGA, but not sure which.  Also, does it use cards, so we can  >use the drive controller, floppy, etc?  The only things you'll be able to salvage from the junior are the floppy drives and monitor.  The floppies are 360k, and the monitor is CGA, but you will need an adaptor cable to use it.  The junior does not use standard cards.  Unless  you're really strapped for cash, you should just junk the thing and buy new  stuff.  Dan
In article <C51Cv1.MLL@cup.hp.com>, staggers@cup.hp.com (Ken Staggers) writes: |> HUAYONG YANG (yang@titan.ucs.umass.edu) wrote: |> : Most, if not all, credit card companies offer to double the warranty up |> : to one year, namely, if you make a purchase by a credit card, you get |> : additional warranty up to one year. Does it apply to the purchase of |> : computers? I wonder if anyone out there has used it. Is there any catch? |> : Thanks in advance. |>  |> I am just about to post the results of my big computer purchase.  One |> of the key points was the ability to use my American Express card.  I  |> read the fine print between double warranty policies of Amex and Citibank |> VISA.  Sure, both will allow you double warranty on computers, but Citibank |> has a maximum claim of $250.00.  Could you imagine trying to get your |> monitor or mother board fixed for $250.00?  Amex has NO limit on claims. |>  |> Remember, if you use Amex, you must either send a copy of the warranty info |> to them in 30 days from purchase, or you must call them to pre-register and |> then send them the paperwork within 90 days of purchase (my pre-register |> pak arrived today).  Citibank VISA requires no pre-registration. |>  |> --Ken |>   I just talked to a rep for my AT&T mastercard regarding this:  There is no maximum claim, and you only have to notify them of the warranty when the  item needs repair.  If it can't be repaired, you get the amount you paid for it. Curiously though, the AT&T Gold mastercard has a limit of $1000 on claims. Definitely not upgrading to that card...:)  -Bryan
For those of you who might be familiar with Insight Distribution      Network, Inc. and their Multimedia Kits:  I'm seriously considering buying the Insight Talon TA-2000 MM Kit, which is bundled with the CD-ROM drive with 265-280ms access time, 300Kb dtr, multispin, multi-session Photo CD capability, etc., and with the PAS-16 sound card, etc.... (if you are familiar with Insight, you know the kit I mean).  I believe the drive is either a Texel (265ms) or an NEC (280ms), but it is not clear to me which one is actually a part of the bundle (at least two of their sales people couldn't give me a straight answer as to which one; ah, yes, one of the drawbacks of OEM!).  Other questions:  - Excuse my ignorance, but is "Texel" a reputable maker in the CD-ROM   market?  Or do you think NEC is the better drive?  - Bottom line:  Is this kit worth the money?  (Currently, $449 for the   TA-1000, and $699 for the TA-2000)  Alternatively, I was thinking that the TA-2000 might be overkill for my uses (however, I *do* want full multimedia capabilities, Photo CD stuff, educational programs for my kids, etc.), and considered the lower-end TA-1000 kit and using the difference (around $250.00) to get something else useful, like a tape back-up drive unit.  Basically, I would just like to hear from those who have actually USED these kits, and whatever pros/cons you might advise, preferably directly to the email address below.  Thanks,  Koji
folks,  I have a Panasonic kx-1124 (just inherited with no documentation) which is  giving me a problem that i cant resolve.   The paper out light refuses to go out . It starts to blink when ever i turn the power on which 2 beeps. It does allow be to go on line with green light lit, simultanously the red paper out light also remains lit -but is does not blink.   Please do not give any references to manuals , as i dont have any.  Thanking you all very much in advance.  Sincerely
Article #60579 (60704 is last): From: r0h7630@tamuts.tamu.edu (Rithea Hong) >Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Perfect MAG MX15F Monitors? Date: Sat Apr 17 07:13:05 1993  A friend of mine got a Mag of the above model and it had some distrotion, so he sent it back.  Unfortunately, the replacement also was distorted.  I would bet it's a common problem.  The best advice I've heard when buying monnitors is to actually look at the specific one you will buy (as opposed to model) since monitor manufacturing even from "Big Names" still tends to produce alot of monitors with visible defects.                                 Rithea Hong                        (r0h7630@tamuts.tamu.edu) End of File, Press RETURN to quit  Just to name two at the top of my list of crap monitor makers are, SONY & MAGNAVOX...Sam
I have a Colorado Memory Systems Jumbo 250 tape backup unit in my Gateway 486/33V Tower system. I have found the supplied backup capability to be  fairly unreliable. In approx 3 cases out of 10, I have had the backup fail at one point or another, often hanging in the middle of writing the tape. Seek errors, drive communication errors seem to be most common. I use the DOS backup software from Colorado Memory Systems. Should I return the drive, get some better backup software, reformat the tapes (am using CMS tapes)? Any hints would be appreciated - this stuff is to time-consuming to do over and over again until it cooperates...
kdq@quest.UUCP (Kevin D. Quitt) writes:  >I have a system with a SCSI drive.  I want to get a QIC-150 tape unit to >attach to it, and then run software that will read (and maybe even write) >UNIX TAR tapes.  (Or at least just read a stream and dump it to file - I'll >take it from there).  >Why is this impossible?  It isn't.  ;-)  Use tar on the Un*x box and gtak110.zip on the DOS box. Needs ASPI driver.   Ralf
jamesc@netcom.com (James Chuang) writes:   >When you leave your radio on at night, it may not be doing anything useful. >But computers can do something useful even when YOU are not in front of it. >Just because MS-DOS and WINDOZE does not know how to schedule tasks does >not mean that all computers hould be shut down every night.  >I bet starting up NT every morning means a good coffee break....   >jamesc   >--  >========================================= >If someone asks if you are a God, you say... YES!  In addition to startup time, I leave things running because my PC doubles as  a fax machine.   However, this is off the original subject. I didn't get the replies on BIOS,  CMOS, and DOS clock/date logic. All I know is that I've been running this way  for many months and it is only recently, the last month, that I have noticed  the intermittent clock problem. As I stated, it is not always the date that  doesn't roll forward, sometimes I notice that the clock is several minutes  behind where it ought to be.   When unattended, the following are generally running minimized in Win 3.1:  Clock, WinFax Pro 3.0, Print Manager, MS-Word 1.1, File Manager, Program  Manager  A random screen saver is generally running too.
Since the losers that sold me the hard disk for my computer are so generous, I need the info to set this drive from master to slave. Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Please reply via e-mail.  Incidentally, avoid purchasing a computer from ACS in Endicott, NY.
Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My computer from Gateway is freezing up on me. Gateway tech support couldn't help me. They want more specifics on when it freezes up.  I DID!  Anyway, here it is.  If the keyboard is left idle in Dos for more than 15 minutes, I can type on the command line, but as  soon as I hit a carraige return, the computer locks up.  This will happen almost every time, whether I've just booted up, reset, or finished using a dos program.  Everything works fine if I don't let it sit.  Windows is a different story.  If I let the machine sit while in windows for 15 minutes or more, it does not freeze up.  However,  I do get frequent application errors that kick me out of an application unexpectedly, losing my work. I just don't know if this is a hardware or software problem.  Any help in diagnosis or things to try, would be greatly appreciated.    P.S.  I do not run any TSRs (except smartdrive) and QAplus diagnostics  says everything is good.   System is:  486SX-33             15" Crystalscan Gateway Monitor             VLB-ATI ultra pro (using mach32 driver build 55)             Winchester 170MB HD             Microsoft mouse Thanks,
...hm, I've found the DTK customer support BBS - anyone know if Magitronic run one too?  (Hands up all those that have possibly useful cards made by either manufacturer and no docs or drivers! <g>)                Please Email me directly if you happen to have a number.
Hi again!      Okay, am getting an old AT type together as well. Anyone have a 16 bit MFM HDC they'd like to sell? WD is preferred, but Adaptec and DTK are fine too......for that matter, almost anything so long as it works!
On Mon, 19 Apr 1993 03:45:17 GMT Wayne Smith (wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca) wrote: | In article <RICHK.93Apr15075248@gozer.grebyn.com> richk@grebyn.com (Richard Krehbiel) writes:  | >So, when you've got multi-tasking, you want to increase performance by | >increasing the amount of overlapping you do. | > | >One way is with DMA or bus mastering.  Either of these make it | >possible for I/O devices to move their data into and out of memory | >without interrupting the CPU.  The alternative is for the CPU to move | >the data.  There are several SCSI interface cards that allow DMA and | >bus mastering. |  ^^^^^^^^^^^^ | How do you do bus-mastering on the ISA bus?  As an earlier post noted - through DMA.  | >IDE, however, is defined by the standard AT interface | >created for the IBM PC AT, which requires the CPU to move all the data | >bytes, with no DMA.  | If we're talking ISA (AT) bus here, then you can only have 1 DMA channel | active at any one time, presumably transferring data from a single device. | So even though you can have at least 7 devices on a SCSI bus, explain how | all 7 of those devices can to DMA transfers through a single SCSI card | to the ISA-AT bus at the same time.  Any one time means IMHO a single byte xfer. If I have four sources of DMA requests ready, the DMA would service the one after the other. If the bandwidth for the four together is lower than the ISA/DMA bandwidth, this will work.  Note that the bus mastering here is the priority mechanism in the DMA controller.  -- Penio Penev  x7423 (212)327-7423 (w) Internet: penev@venezia.rockefeller.edu
'lo all,    I am writting a program that checks a computer for its configuration. It's going to be run everytime a computer boots up to our campus network.  (Actually, it already is running, it's just not getting all the info I want it to yet...)  Anyway, I want to check for a mouse.  I already check for a mouse driver (using the code in Microsoft's Mouse book).  But there is no guarantee that the driver is loaded when my program runs, or that they ever load the driver.    Since I am interested in what hardware is attached to the machine, how do I detect is a mouse is attached?  I know it can be done because the mouse driver can do it.    Thanks in advance,  Andy
In article <1qlbrlINN7rk@dns1.NMSU.Edu>, bgrubb@dante.nmsu.edu (GRUBB) says:  >In PC Magazine April 27, 1993:29 "Although SCSI is twice as fasst as ESDI, >20% faster than IDE, and support up to 7 devices its acceptance ...has >long been stalled by incompatability problems and installation headaches."  I love it when magazine writers make stupid statements like that re: performance. Where do they get those numbers? I'll list the actual performance ranges, which should convince anyone that such a statement is absurd:
What is address interliving? and memmory modules  interliving? Thanks in advance for the info. Robert.
Which would YOU choose, and why?  Like lots of people, I'd really like to increase my data transfer rate from the hard drive.  Right now I have a 15ms 210Mb IDE drive (Seagate 1239A), and a standard IDE controller card on my ISA 486-50.  I'm currently thinking about adding another HD, in the 300Mb to 500Mb range. And I'm thinking hard about buying a SCSI drive (SCSI for the future benefit). I believe I'm getting something like 890Kb/sec transfer right now (according to NU).  How would this number compare if I bought the state-of-the-art SCSI card for my ISA PC, and the state-of-the-art SCSI hard drive (the best system I could hope for)?  Obviously money factors into this choice as well as any other, but what would YOU want to use on your ISA system? And how much would it cost?  Along those lines, what kind of transfer rate could I see with my IDE HD's if I were to buy the top-of-the-line IDE caching controller for my 200Mb, 15ms HD? And how much would it cost?  Thanks for any comments.
Hay all:      Has anyone out there heard of any performance stats on the fabled p24t.  I was wondering what it's performance compared to the 486/66 and/or pentium would be.  Any info would be helpful.  Later BoB --  Robert Novitskey | rrn@po.cwru.edu | (216)754-2134 | CWRU Cleve. Ohio ---------------------------------------------------------------------- COMPUTER ENGINEER AND C PROGRAMMER |  NOW SEEKING SUMMER JOBS
In article <C5wKx1.Frv@news.iastate.edu> schauf@iastate.edu (Brian J Schaufenbuel) writes: >What tube does the Viewsonic 17 use?  Does is support 1600x1280?  I've been >looking a a Philips 1762DT which uses a Sony Trinitron tube, has digital >controls, supports up to 1280x1024NI, and has .25mm dot pitch - It can be >found for under $1000.  The original poster, John Navitsky, said that he might use the monitor on a SparcStation LX. The LX is able to generate a picture at 1280*1024 at 76 Hz. Not officially, but I tried to set this resolution and refresh rate and the LX came up with a non-syncing screen. Our tube obviously couldn't handle this speed. At 67 Hz, it worked perfectly.  When buying a third party monitor that's going to be used on a SparcStation LX, you might consider a monitor that's fast enough to do 1280*1024 at 76Hz. I don't know for sure whether the LX supports this (Sun certainly won't tell you) so you'll have to check.
I know of two people who have horrer stories about the DOS 6.0.  That's 100% of the people I know with DOS 6.0. Both have had to reformat their disks and start over.  One had drive D compress and work fine, only to compress C: to have the thing choke, spit out an unintelligable warning, and then hang.  All that was left on either drive was autoexec.bat and config.sys.  Calls to Microsoft only met with busy signals.  After reformatting the drive, I'm not sure if he had the guts to reinstall 6.0 or stay with a known entity.  The other may have been a marginal drive, however, his upgrade failed, he had to format a floppy disk at 6.0, format the drive, and then reinstall.  I make now claims since I was not driving at the time, however, be careful and make sure you back important things up.
In article <1993Apr20.074447.26955@zip.eecs.umich.edu>, grover@emunix.emich.edu (Grover Thomas) writes... >Just poke out the little pins in the connector, and then replace them in >the correct slots.  Is this reverisible?  You can unpoke as easy as you poke?
I am considering adding to my 386 system equipped with a 130meg Maxtor  HD, a second Maxtor 245 Meg HD.  I assume this will not be a problem.  However, I remember reading somewhere that to do this, you needed to  reformat your original drive ?  Is this true ?  If so why ?  My drive is  full and I really don't like the idea of to re-installing everything  from floppy!!      Please E-mail me, or post to the group           --Mike  ------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Tancsa             INTERNET:#1  mdtancsa@watarts.uwaterloo.ca Waterloo, Ontario                #2  mike.tancsa@canrem.com        CANADA                                                             __________________________________________________________________  ---  þ RoseReader 2.10á P004555 Entered at [CRS]
On my 486DX33 with the Stealth 24 VLB I get 11.4 WinMarks with ver. 3.11
In article <1993Apr23.035543.25060@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> koberg@spot.Colorado.EDU (Allen Koberg) writes:  >  With Stacker, any changes to your config.sys >or autoexec.bat meant rebooting twice so it could update those.  	This is not necessary. All you have to do is modify the config.sys on d:\  { or the real boot up partition/disk }. Then, you can manually copy it to c:\ or allow stacker to do it on boot up.   	Likewise with the autoexec.bat.   ---  Private note to Jennifer Fakult.          "This post may contain one or more of the following:          sarcasm, cycnicism, irony, or humor. Please be aware           of this possibility and do not allow yourself to be           confused and/or thrown for a loop. If in doubt, assume          all of the above.
In article <1qd5bcINNmep@golem.wcc.govt.nz> hamilton@golem.wcc.govt.nz (Michael Hamilton) writes:     Do you really need to switch to a DX2/66 instead of a DX50?  As I    understand it, DX50's can have local bus devices (on the mother-board?)    but not local bus slots.  And according to what I been told, many    systems go beyond the VESA local bus standard in order to provide DX50    systems with a local bus slot capability.  I have definitly seen a    mother board with 2 local bus slots which claimed to be able to    support any CPU, including the DX2/66 and DX50.  Can someone throw    some more informed light on this issue?  You will need to check with peripheral makers to see if their boards will work at 50 MHz.  Some will with some motherboards.
In article <1993Apr19.144814.17736@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> mancus@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (Keith Mancus) writes: >  I am unable to get my Gateway 486DX2/66 to run Windows >in 1280x1024.  I ordered a 2M ATI Ultra Pro, and I'm pretty >sure the 2M is really there because I *can* select >1024x768x65536.   But no matter what I do with the Flex program >in the ATI's program group, 1280x1024 remains ghosted out. >I have Windows 3.1, build 59 of the drivers, DOS 5.0.  The >drivers were installed by Gateway, not by me, so perhaps there's >a file missing from the hard drive.  It runs 1024x768 just fine. >  I did go into the Desktop window and select 1280x1024.  Sometimes >it refuses (ghosted out), other time it accepts it, but when I hit >OK and re-enter Desktop, it's back to 1024x768.  At no time does >it unghost 1280x1024 in the main Flex window.  Help!  Maybe you need to go into \mach32\install and set a refresh rate for 1280x1024.  You might need to use custom monitor option.  Dan
In article <1993Apr6.121757.19852@inesc.pt> jma@ingrina () writes:  [STUFF DELETED]  >-PCI (Intel) bus: >  -Its not completely defined (YET). >  -Some people think of it as a long term solution. >  -Larger fanout. >  -Not so cheap (complex chipset).         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  A friend who owns a company that builds clones shared with me the fact that the PCI chipset is NOT expensive -- how about $12?  Many money-hungry-clone makers, no doubt, will attempt to price the boards high only because it's new technology.  Lance Hartmann (lance%hartmann.austin.ibm.com@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com)                Yes, that IS a '%' (percent sign) in my network address.
poe@wharton.upenn.edu writes:  >A friend of mine called me on the phone and told me he was wathcing CNN >and saw a report that the ruling prohibiting AMD from selling their i486 >clones has been thrown out, making it legal for AMD to ship in the US. >Can anyone out there verify this?  >Thanks in advance >Phil
In article <1993Apr15.133138.17369@cc.umontreal.ca>, gregof@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Grego Filippo) writes: > Hi fellow netters, >  > I have a question for you... I am gonna buy a 486DX2-66 MHz > with VESA Local-Bus. IS the speed benefit that great ?  > Would it be wise to spend on a local-bus system (HD controller  > and graphic card) for normal use ( I mean I won't use it for a > server !!) ? >  > Also, I read an article from someone ( sorry, I can't remember your > name ) and he said that even though you have a local-bus hard-disk > controller, your performances won't be that much greater because > of the disk's throughtput !!!  > So what is the use of having a fast bus if the peripherals can't  > cope with it ???  Something to bear in mind is what the V in VLB stands for!  V for Video - the origional intention of the bus was to speed up the bus so that large memory to memory transfers would be faster. This is espically useful in transfering data from main memory to video memory.  Since there are usually 3 VLB slots card makers have been making  cards to fit in the other two.   How about an VLB ethernet card? Move the data into the card at 130 odd MB/s and then wait for it to tickle onto the net at just over 1Mb/s.  [ Do do however free the local bus for other cards ]  Some times you need fast busses and sometimes you don't!  >  > Thank you ... >  > gregof@jsp.umontreal.ca >  >   Guy