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Great 24-pin Printer
Message #52770
FOR SALE OKIDATA 24-PIN HIGH-SPEED PRINTER, MODEL ML-390 – High-Speed 270 cps Draft, 90 cps Letter Quality – Built Like a Tank Gear-Drive printhead…no belts! – Excellent Character Quality – 360 x 360 dpi Graphics Fabulous graphics resolution…you'd be hard-pressed to tell the output from a laser, unless there were…
A500 Expansion
Message #52769
FOR SALE AMIGA 500 EXPANSION SYSTEM – SUBSYSTEM 500 – Goes Underneath Amiga – Only 1.5" High – Accepts A2000/Zorro II cards – Includes Extra 3.5" Floppy Mounts on front, right under CPU. Easy Access! – Has Expansion Bus Passthrough – Uses its own Heavy-Duty Power Supply (Included) Doesn't bog-down…
Ah..so it's not necessarily curtains for Access! then… good! I don't mind if it becomes commercial, it would just be a pity if one of the most user-friendly and attractive term programs for the Amiga would fade away. Best wishes- talk to you again. Phil
Paul, the Sept/Oct time frame (the conservative in me feels more comfortable saying "the first part of October" 🙂 is for an _external_ version. We decided to concentrate our efforts on getting out the external because up until recently we were only able to sell into the MS-DOS/Intel market since…
Ah…hope you didn't get knocked _too_ hard in that school then! Sorry that Access! looks doomed…at least from what you infer in your response. I haven't been following the sig that much lately, I have a feeling those threads probably scrolled off. Ah well. As for the modem, yes- it…
Yep… Speedmodem Champ: 300/1200/2400/9600 with MNP5- $149. Although, I have to admit, that's an internal IBM-PC card. The external version, just starting to ship next week, will be $179. I'm excited about being able to put these into the Amiga marketplace. Already, we have most of the biggest BBS's in…
You're welcome, Rick. No question about it, the USR stuff is good equipment. Of course, the way *I* look at it, the potential user base of $149 9600 baud users is _many_ times that of $600 modem owners- 'specially since that amounts to half of the whole home computer investment…
Help W/Buying 9600 Modem
Message #32280
Hi Paul. Yes, it is true that CompuCom has announced an affordable V.32bis modem. I am with CompuCom Corporation, and would be glad to answer any questions here. For the moment, let me clarify your original post. The V.32bis product will have a direct-from-CompuCom price of $539, and will be…
As I recall, I didn't change any SCSI address numbers, so they should still be correct. As for the terminator, I was using another drive to terminate the bus originally, but she doesn't have the drive. I bought a 'passthrough' SCSI terminator on sale (it's the one with one female…
I believe I tried to prep the 'Res2:' partition, which is the first SCSI drive. Is there any special requirement for the startup sequence? I saw someone else mention around these parts something about putting binddrivers first in the s-s after setpatch. Do I have to mount res2: before PREPing…
#A2090 woes
Message #17282
I'm having problems PREPing my Conner CP-340 using the A2090 controller. I did this a long time ago, after much hand-wringing over what the specs REALLY were on this Apple-customized version. Now, I can't get it to prep even though I know what the correct mountlist is. The drive activity…
Okay…you gottie.
Thanks for the note re: the LXT-100. It appears that I may end up with something like a Quantum anyway- since I didn't realize that apparently the Maxtor is somewhat slower. Thanks though. + Phil +
The termination is provided in the Konica drive. I know, (or at least *think* I know) because adding the Konica to the SCSI bus was obviously what I needed to eliminate the *severe* problems that the Conner CP-340 was having. After having done that, haven't had a *whit* of a…
Well, luckily, I haven't experienced the crashes at all in the last week or so. I think pushing all the chips in did the trick. It's been running beautifully. Thanks for the tip though! + Phil +
I have an ICD Advantage 2000 now. Although, it appears that the crashes have become a thing of the past, at least for now. + Phil +
Aha! Just the person I'd like to talk to. I had little doubt that the Maxtor was a good drive, my only question was whether it would cause any problems with the Advantage 2000, being that I had heard it was incompatible with another Amiga HD controller. Do you know…
That would be a crying shame- and potentially the downfall of the Amiga if it were true. Already lots of other platforms have leapfrogged us in terms of display resolution/quantization. I was under the impression that the A2410 U. of Lowell card was the de-facto A3000UX standard for graphics- isn't…
#Maxtor LXT-100 SCSI
Message #9915
Hello there, SCSI gurus. Perhaps you can offer me your opinions. I ran across a place advertising a real attractive price on a Maxtor LXT-100S 3.5" hard drive ($379). Was wondering what the general consensus out there was on that drive. I know Maxtor has an excellent reputation, but somewhere…
Thanks Nick for your interest. Things seem to have stabilized moreor-less after I reseated all the chips the second time. I still don't understand why I can't turn it on and have something running for a length of time without something crashing though. For testing purposes, I had a couple…
Awwwww…c'mon now! + Phil +
Truly an interesting experience. Thought maybe you isolated the 8-up because that was the common piece between us, but it looks like you narrowed it down to that far before I came along. One of the things I paid a lot of attention to, in my selection of A2000, was…
Aha..figured I might have had an old version. Thanks for the tip. + Phil +
#A2000 crashes!
Message #9067
Been having problems with my recently purchased (used) A2000. On two separate occasions, the computer crashed randomly. I would come back to it to find the video output completely black (including the composite video output) and the computer not doing what it was doing (to the best I could determine,…
Yep, sounds like good news, but not being very astute about the programming/business side of things, I have no idea what type of time frame to actual product that it represents. + Phil +
FWIW, over on USENET Commodore had a post recently (+/- 3-5 weeks ago) where they advertised positions for programmers with "device independent graphics" experience. Perhaps you can ask one of the more astute Usenetters, i.e. Larry Phillips about that post… + Phil +
Thanks for the reply. I heard/read about that NEC. The footprint is the big selling feature on the TI. I was looking at some printouts the other day, and it almost seemed like the output that I had done on a HP IIP was slightly sharper than the TI. Do…
Steve: That's the printer I'm very interested in. Perhaps you can answer some questions? Everyone has basically given it rave reviews, but a while back I talked to someone at a store that specializes in printers, and she claimed it was very susceptible to print problems in high (or un-optimum)…
When I snapshot the disk icons, and reboot, they don't appear in the places I would expect. I find that sometimes if I move another icon away, after I boot, and then try removing and reinserting a floppy disk, (at least this works sometimes with the first floppy disk I…
Well- Unfortunately, I have…that's the problem. It doesn't work the way you would expect. Eventually I'll get to the bottom of this. + Phil +
Now, which position are you referring to editing? Can't I just "Snapshot" the icons, and they will go back to their place? Or are you saying that certain disk icons are not "snapshotable"? + Phil +
Hmm, well , interesting nonetheless. I still wish I had some idea how to make my icons appear in the right place though. + Phil +
That IS strange. Can't imagine how they squeeze the names of hundreds of files into that little thing tho.. 'course, I STILL can't get my icons to go where they're supposed to. Sigh. + Phil +
Hmm- that's interesting. I'll try it. I don't think they are overlapping, since when you pick up and move an icon it seems to me that you can see when it overlaps if it "blocks out" another icon if you move it too close. On the other hand, there's "no…
I think you misunderstood me Betty. I meant the ".info" file, as opposed to the "[file].info" file. I was under the impression that the "[file] info" file contained information about where the icon locates itself, if it's a disk icon, or if it's a file icon, what the filename is,…
Hmm! You would think this kind of thing would have come up before… is there no solution? Jeez, hate to reposition the dang things every time I boot up.. + Phil +
Hmm…sounds interesting- but aren't the ".info" (by themselves) files just to define the window that opens up from a disk icon? When I snapshot a disk icon, the only file that gets updated is the "disk.info" file itself. What stumps me is, these icons seem to have the information about…
Well- I tried selecting everything using extended selection…doesn't work. Funny thing is, it seems to save where I WANT them to go..because sometimes if I remove both floppies, the first one I put back in goes where I snapshotted it, where it wouldn't before. But usually the second one seems…
#WorkBench Icons
Message #102992
OK folks, here's an inane but frustrating problem: How the heck do I make the drive icons appear where I want them on bootup?? I like to put my floppy disk, ram disk and hard disk partition icons in a certain place on the Workbench when I bootup the Amiga,…
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#WordSync Problems
Message #99095
Yes- I know about the autoboot and SCSI I.D. jumpers. The autoboot is off (I have a 1.2 rom), and the SCSI I.D. on one drive is set to 0, and on the other drive is set to 1. As it is, the software goes through and tries to recognize…
Very interesting. It's curious to me why a different type of SCSI drive would institute read/write errors with certain controllers. I can understand the absence of support for diskchange issues, but read/write errors seem to be a unexpected side-effect from a removable-media drive. + Phil +
Thanks for the info Clark.. that explains why I never seem to see the drives or the floppies around. I'm sure the 44MB cartridge drives don't help their popularity either…although I hear they aren't perfectly reliable either. + Phil +
OK…well that's good the 2091 doesn't require an OFS partition. Seemed rather kludgy to me.. + Phil +
OK- Thanks Don. I'll do some further checking into the 2091. + Phil +
Ok, fair enough. How would you say the 2091 compares to the 2090 (non"A" type)? Particularly in terms of speed, under best/worst conditions, compatibility with accelerators, and documentation/setup. Does the 2091 still require that silly OFS partition? Are the docs still pathetic? + Phil +
Once again, thanks for the info Steve. Now, if I can get a handle on which one of the cards handles accelerator cards with the least amount of contention, I'll have most of the info I need to make a decision. + Phil +
Thanks for the info Clark. I didn't realize that the SCSI driver board was actually one SCSI "device". As for Konica 10.7MB disk support, I don't know what has to be different, other than diskchange issues. At this point, I seem to have intermittent trouble with read/write errors on the…
By the way, I'm also considering an upgrade of my HD driver board sometime in the future. I want autoboot, no DMA contention, better setup software and documentation, elimination of the need for OFS partitions if possible, and support of SCSI devices other than standard hard disks. The ones that…
Ok, I'll see if the hddisk driver is any newer than the one I have. As I recall, the last update was something like early last year. + Phil +
Thanks for the info Clark. Is it possible that the A2090 just _won't work_ with the Konica? I'd like to get this thing working for the moment anyway, even though I plan on upgrading my HD driver board before long. How many SCSI devices does the WordSync support? How about…
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