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- From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
- Subject: Re: PS/2 VGA, among other things!
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 21:12:21 GMT
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- In <1ej5hcINNbuq@mercury.kingston.ac.uk> cs_d637@ceres (Paul Neve) writes:
-
- >I have a PS/2 70 which I purchased second hand.
-
- >A few questions I'd like to ask...
-
- >1. It only appears to be running at 16MHz. I thought the 70s were at least
- > DX-25s. Is there something wrong with mine?
-
- Yes, the first PS/2 Model 70's ran a 16 Mhz 386DX chip. I believe the
- model number is 8570-E61 or 8570-U61.
-
- >2. If I hold down a key (any key!) and move the mouse it goes mental and
- > the mouse moves and clicks by itself. This continues until I quit whatever
- > program I'm in.
-
- Hmm, that's interesting. My PS/2 Mod 70 has a similar problem, but I
- never noticed if it was only when I held down a key.
- We have a logitech PS/2 mouse, and I thought that might be the problem.
-
- The program that most notably shows the problem is DOSSHELL under MS-DOS5,
- again I figured this was Microsoft's way of getting back at Logitech for
- making mice.
-
- It could be a problem with the PS/2 Mod 70 design.
-
- >3. The VGA seems to be incredibly SLLOOWWWWWW! A friend of mine has a 286 and
- > most games run FASTER on it! Wing Commander 2, especially, when I have it
- > running with the expanded memory features. Any way I can speed it up?
- > (Replacing the video RAM with faster memory chips, perhaps?)
-
- Yep, it's an 8 bit VGA card for ya. It's incredibly slow.
- I don't know, you might be able to get a video card to go into one of the
- slots that would replace it.
-
- >If anyone out there can help me I'd be enternally grateful...
-
- Well, not sure about the mouse. But everything else is typical of the
- PS/2 Model 70.
-
- I also have a 386SX/16 clone, it's faster in nearly ever instance.
-
- I'm convinced that the PS/2 Model 70 was designed by business suit people,
- and not engineers.
-
- --
- sheldon@iastate.edu Steve Sheldon
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