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3 total messages Started by Nick Shore Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:45

#534

Author: Nick Shore
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:45

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Can anybody help me to get Ghostscript to show the fonts when previewing 
a  postscript file generated with the standard RO3 postscript printer driver.

All I get is can't find font and can't find default font.

Nick.








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Nick Shore                                  British Telecom Laboratories,
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                                            Ipswich, IP5 7RE, UK.

310 or 3020 help?

#551

Author: sdaveyj
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 06:03

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Hi everyone,

I have a friend here who really wants to dump his 386 33Mhz PC with SVGA
120Mb and all that for an Archimedes. Yippee!

However, money is the usual problem. We can see two possible avenues,
for which I need all your advices.

1.- A 3020.

    Adv:  HD floppie, Risc Os 3 etc etc
          Can drive a SVGA monitor

    Dis:  Will he ever be able to put an ARM3 in it

2.- A severely upgraded 310
    (ARM3, SVGA job, IDE HD etc)

    Adv:  ARM3, Nice box, 4Mb Ram,

    Dis:  It's old. Low density floppies.

Questions:

    What are your oppinions?

    Can you fit IDE or SCSI harddiscs in a 310 without a backplane?

    Any luck with VGA monitors on a 310 with or without the watford
    SVGA thingy.

    How can I tell if this 310 will need a carrier board for RO3 
    ( it's about 3 years old)

    I would also appreciate advice about which companies are quickest 
    and most efficient at mailordering Drives, Arm3, Memory etc
    (I believe IFEL are good for Mem)

    All other suggestions greatly appreciated.


Total cost no more than about $2500 or 1000 pounds.

      Thank you all,


             John Davey   (and my mate Rob)

Re: 310 or 3020 help?

#588

Author: R Voisey
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 13:07

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In article <1992Nov19.150322.1@cc.curtin.edu.au> sdaveyj@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:
>    Can you fit IDE or SCSI harddiscs in a 310 without a backplane?

You can fit SCSI harddisks using an EcoSCSI board (plugs  into the
econet socket) BUT it has drawbacks:

     1.  It's 8 bit and NOT fast
     2.  You have to boot the filing system etc from a floppy
     3.  It ties up your  econet port

>Total cost no more than about $2500 or 1000 pounds.

You should be able to get something MUCH better than a 310 for
a grand (I only got 1300 for my A5000).  Settle for nothing less
than a 400/1 with 2-4Megs of RAM, 50-120Mb hard disk, ARM-3 and
colour  monitor (possibly cheap multisync).  Second  hand Archs
are NOT worth  much these days.

Having said that, you might have a problem finding  a system
like that because it's not  worth selling them for that price.
Peeps seem to start out  asking ridiculous money in the BAU
classifieds,  get no response  after a few months, then just
hang onto them.

Bob

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  Robert J. Voisey  :  r_voisey@csd.uwe.ac.uk
         -- Probug Software Developments --
162 Staplehill Rd, Fishponds, Bristol, Avon, England

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