Re: Exploding COM ports!

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From: John Davies
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 00:00

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In article <824247007.20830@mystiko.demon.co.uk>
           andy@mystiko.demon.co.uk  writes:

} I few months ago I bought a modem to get 'online'.  I bought a
} Motorola 28.8 External modem, and also bought a new IO card with 16550
} UARTS so I could take full advantage of the speed of the modem.

 Try reading Motorola's webpage.  It's somewhere on there that the
 early 28.8s had a problem with sending a surge of power back to 
 the serial port if you switched the modem off before the PC.
 As Motorola have recognised this problem you may be lucky and 
 get them to compensate you for your losses?

 I leave my Motorola 28.8 permanently switched on and power down the PC 
 and then switch the lot off at the wall - but I think I bought mine after
 the fix anyway (I hope).

-- 
JOhn  ____/\
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From: John Davies <John@jwd42.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Exploding COM ports!
Date: 1996/02/14
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