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- From: cm6700@ccub.wlv.ac.uk (G.Nath)
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- Subject: Re: Why buy BlizIV-SCSI? + Bliz-Hack?
- Date: 20 Mar 1996 13:22:14 -0000
- Organization: University of Wolverhampton, U.K.
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- md94-jmi@hemul.nada.kth.se (Jonas Minnbergh) writes:
-
- >the card (not holding '2' while resetting) ? It's just that I have a "turbo-
- >switch" on my computer case and I would ilke to use it for something.. if
- >someone knows any other hack for the Blizzard, I'd like to hear...
-
- The Blizzard doesn`t have jumpers to disable to the 030, on
- other cards like the old Vipers you could wire up the jumper
- pins to the Turbo switch on a case. Anyway whats wrong with the
- "2" key, Phase V have gone to all that extra headache so you
- would have to go through pulling jumpers or pulling the card
- completely!
-
- >Secondly, I intend to get a Zip-drive and possibly a SCSI-HD but not any more
- >memory. Why buy the blizzard SCSI-add on instead of the PMCIA squirrel, when
- >the squirrel costs halv as much? Any major (noticeable) speedups that makes
- >the bliz-card a better choise? Please answer or E-mail.
-
- I don`t know the price of Squirrel Vs SCSI Module, the only
- thing i can think of is the extra Simm Socket and overall tidier
- integration, it's your cash :)
-
- GVN
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