--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 260 OS/2 HARDWARE Ref: F4A00002 Date: 04/02/98 From: DEREK STEEL Time: 02:16am \/To: PETER GARNER (Read 3 times) Subj: Motherboards and os/2 Nude Greetings Peter, 31 Mar 98 12:56, Peter Garner wrote to Lynn Nash: JM>> from my calculations, a pentium II based processor would have to JM>> have about twice the clock rate to out gun a pentium pro if all JM>> else remains the same. PG> What is the deal with the Pentium II vs. Pentium Pro? I thought that PG> the 333 Mhz Pentium II would run 32 bit code (like OS/2) as well as a PG> Pentium Pro? I have just purchased a 333 Mhz Pentium II, would I have PG> been better off with a Pentium Pro? What is the highest clock rate on PG> a Pentium Pro? The best speed of Pentium Pro is still 200mhz Derek --- GoldED/2 2.50+ 6695OS3 * Origin: The Nude Dude BBS (1:153/7021) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 260 OS/2 HARDWARE Ref: F4A00003 Date: 04/04/98 From: QUENTIN STEPHENS Time: 06:25pm \/To: MIKE RUSKAI (Read 3 times) Subj: redirecting LPT1 On Tuesday Mike Ruskai said MR> I don't know if I asked this here before or not... MR> MR> I would like to redirect LPT1 to a network printer. Is this MR> possible? net use lpt1: \\machinename\name-youve-shared-the-printer-as 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. --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: DoNoR/2,Woking UK (44-1483-717905) (2:440/4) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 260 OS/2 HARDWARE Ref: F4A00004 Date: 04/04/98 From: CHRIS MARTIN Time: 10:58pm \/To: AUGUST ABOLINS (Read 3 times) Subj: Mustek HT-800 anyone? Flailing away at August! While reading the mail, wispering this: AA> I would like to probe my fellow OS/2 users if anyone among you has the Must ek AA> HT-800 handheld greyscale scanner. AA> I lost the installed software several years ago due an hdd problem, and I'v e AA> misplaced the original diskettes in the process of moving to another ty. AA> I would appreciate it if anyone can help and send me a copy of the software AA> and drivers. Can do better than that! I have one of those critters here, not used any more, will sell it, with ALL original disks, boxes, etc for $25.00 plus UPS (or FedEx if you prefer). Contact me via the origin line address in netmail, or to martinsc@juno.com via email. Chris Martin The MARS Station BBS ... An Authorized MAX GRAPHICS Software Distribution Site.. Freq MAXFILES * WCE 2.1G1/2419 * A juggler is a schizophrenic playing catch. --- ViaMAIL!/WC4 v1.30 * Origin: From an Echo heard on MARS. Call to be transported. (1:219/308) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 260 OS/2 HARDWARE Ref: F4A00005 Date: 04/04/98 From: CLIFF HETHERINGTON Time: 09:40pm \/To: MIKE RUSKAI (Read 3 times) Subj: new motherboard Quoted From: Mike Ruskai To: Cliff Hetherington Date: 31-Mar-98 Hello Mike, 31-Mar-98 23:00:10, Mike Ruskai wrote to Cliff Hetherington Subject: new motherboard CH>> seperate, if on the same card.. will it still cache ALL the CH>> memory in the system or do we have a 64meg and 20% hit in CH>> performance problem there as well? MR> I'm pretty sure that it caches all memory, which is at least MR> 768MB, since some motherboards based on the LX support that much. Well I guess someone will eventually fit 768megs and we'll all hear either a resounding scream about a slowdown or one of pleasure:-)) MR> I've only got 64MB installed right now, though, so I can't vouch MR> from experience. I aint even got that much here, but the way softwares going the min workable amount is going ever upwards.. heaven help us if the ram prices ever go back to what the were originally:-( MR> off the die, but on the same card as the CPU in the big module, MR> with a direct bus between them. Humm no info on how its tagged then? or wouldnt tag ram apply in those sercumstances? Cheers, Cliff Written offline at 21:40 Hrs --- Terminate 5.00/Pro*at Read FREE2000. Support FidoNet * Origin: T1, London. UK. (2:254/60.10) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 260 OS/2 HARDWARE Ref: F4A00006 Date: 04/03/98 From: GREGORY URBAN Time: 08:03am \/To: JOE LERCH (Read 3 times) Subj: Warp & Toshiba LCD Greetings Joe, JL>I am dealing with the same company, and my battery does not >hold it's charge as it should, but it's not as bad as yours. JL>My laptop is also missing the plastic cover for the PCMCIA >slot, but getting through to Data-Path looked like >it would be more costly with all the long distance phone >calls on 'hold"than the cover was worth. Ahh, another satisfied Data-Path customer! You know, after I placed the order it was not shipped until THIRTY-TWO days after my VISA was charged, and then it was only after I threatened to challenge the charge and cancel the order. It arrived Fed-Ex overnight. What a way to do business. I gave up on trying to get them to make good on the battery. A search on the Internet yeilded a PA2413U NiMH battery, new condition, for $95.99. Average price on these batteries is around $160. The web address is www.4batteries.com and their phone number is 800-442-2288. I have no connection with D&D Laptop Batteries other than the fact that I've ordered from them. Also, the price _included_ shipping as it was advertised on their web page. Just FWIW. >like registering it again., so I am running a basic >Warp 3 installation with only tcpip installed for >dialup access. I'm using a basic Warp 3 Connect (Blue) installation with TCP/IP from the IAK. I purchased and installed Gwinn's SIO drivers so that I can use VMODEM to telnet into a BBS down in Upper Darby. At home I have the "regional calling" long distance plan but that doesn't help when I'm mobile . Tonight I was monkeying around with installing the drivers for my SyQuest EZFlyer parallel drive but it isn't working out well, cannot get the 4500C to recognize the disks. JL>I do like the way the laptop shuts down the screen and >hardrive if you let it sit for a while or close the cover, >so I guess I would be happy with the auto-resume, but if it >gives OS/2 a problem, I will do without it. Since I don't do image editing or other graphics related stuff on the road I can get by with the 16 color VGA drivers. I'd rather make use of the resume feature. If you do decide to play with that the driver can be found at www.toshiba.com/tais/csd/support/files/allfiles.htm JL>I would like to find a cheap PCMCIA network card that >had a BNC (coax) type connector so I could occasionally Good idea. A friend may have one, he tried to sell me a PCMCIA network adaptor a while ago but I declined as I have no need. >me. Of course a good, cheap, 28.8 modem I've been searching for a deal on one too. In "Computer Shopper" magazine there is an outfit called NWCD (800-655-NWCD) and they list a closeout on a Megahertz 28.8 PCMCIA modem for $49. They've also got a Xircom 10bT ethernet card for $69, doesn't say in the advert if it supports BNC. >would be nicer than the current 14.4, or maybe a good >cdrom... but I really don't want to invest a lot of I nearly ordered a Panasonic KXL-D740RB 4x CD-ROM (PCMCIA, factory refurb) for $99 from NWCD. This is Warp supported too. I decided that the money could be better used elsewhere and I generated the install disks for Warp 3 Connect (Blue) from the CD-ROM and installed on the laptop with the disks. Later, Greg * 1st 2.00 ~ No matter where you go, there you are. --- QScan/PCB v1.19b / 01-0671 * Origin: AirPower Telnet://airpower.dyn.ml.org 610-259-2193 (1:273/408) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 260 OS/2 HARDWARE Ref: F4A00007 Date: 04/04/98 From: STEWART BUCKINGHAM Time: 09:09am \/To: JONATHAN DE BOYNE POLLARD (Read 3 times) Subj: 75MHz Motherboards Hi Jonathan, -> And why is that, electrically speaking ? hummmm...pip... buzz... click... (and then a burning smell followed by a sense of smoke a few seconds later) Rgds, Stewart --- PCBoard (R) v15.4 (OS/2) 10 Beta * Origin: The Chili Channel * Manila, Philippines * Fidonet (6:751/222) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 260 OS/2 HARDWARE Ref: F4B00000 Date: 04/02/98 From: THORBJOERN RAVN ANDERSEN Time: 07:36pm \/To: BARRY BOGART (Read 3 times) Subj: Mem Hello Barry, Wednesday April 01 1998, Barry Bogart wrote to All: BB> If Os/2 runs out of memory, will the system Halt? It will warn you first so you have an opportunity to free space on the drive holding the swap file. BTW: This is one of the warnings to take very seriously :-) Regards, Thorbjoern --- * Origin: ravn@dit.ou.dk (2:237/11.64) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 260 OS/2 HARDWARE Ref: F4B00001 Date: 04/05/98 From: THORBJOERN RAVN ANDERSEN Time: 04:35am \/To: JAMES MCKENZIE (Read 3 times) Subj: stb 4 port serial card Hello James, Friday April 03 1998, James Mckenzie wrote to Ian Singer: JM> Latest release version is SIO160D and there is a second beta out on JM> version 2.00. Very interesting, since incrementing the major version number usually implies brand new facilities. Do you - per chance - have any ideas what these might be? Regards, Thorbjoern --- * Origin: ravn@dit.ou.dk (2:237/11.64) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 260 OS/2 HARDWARE Ref: F4B00002 Date: 04/05/98 From: GREG COBB Time: 11:51am \/To: BARRY BOGART (Read 3 times) Subj: Mem Hi Barry! Wednesday April 01 1998, Barry Bogart babbled to All: -> If Os/2 runs out of memory, will the system Halt? Not that I know of. If you run out of disk space it'll let you know that you don't have enough room to write INI files. --- No Tearline-Ed v.01 * Origin: Picture This... Southaven, MS (1:123/434) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 260 OS/2 HARDWARE Ref: F4B00003 Date: 04/04/98 From: STEPHEN HAFFLY Time: 12:52pm \/To: AUGUST ABOLINS (Read 3 times) Subj: Mustek HT-800 anyone? On (03 Apr 98) August Abolins wrote to all... Hi August, AA> I would like to probe my fellow OS/2 users if anyone among you has the AA> Mustek HT-800 handheld greyscale scanner. My Father in Law recently sent me a Reveal hand scanner, which I believe was made by Mustek. The drivers list an 800DPI grayscale scanner as one of the install options. AA> I lost the installed software several years ago due an hdd problem, AA> and I've misplaced the original diskettes in the process of moving to AA> another city. AA> I would appreciate it if anyone can help and send me a copy of the AA> software and drivers. AA> I had contacted Mustek about 2 years ago (upon discovering the hdd AA> problem and the missing diskettes) and they were unable to point me to AA> a source for the necessary software. Do you have an e-mail address, and can you accept large files as e-mail attachments? If so, that would be the simplest way. TTYL, Stephen Team OS/2, Team GEOS OS/2 & New Deal Office 98 - A great combination. ... MSDOS&PCDOS&CP/M&WINDOWSI'LLFIDDLEWITHOS/2WOULDN'TYOU? --- PPoint 2.05 * Origin: Thunder Mountains Point (1:309/63.4)