Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 07:31:15 -500
From: Tom Rutherford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: silencing the modem?
On Sunday the 13th of February 2000 at 2.12pm, Nettamer List
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
NL>Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 10:15:26 0 From: John Gregory
NL><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: silencing the modem?
NL>Hi Tom
Hi, John
NL>On 12/02/00 Nettamer List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
NL>TR>>>Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 07:27:32 -500 From: Tom Rutherford
NL>TR>>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: silencing the modem?
NL>JG>Have you got a source I can refer to so I can find out
NL>JG>some more on this finite life &W feature?
NL>TRTR> ...but I
NL>make TR>it a TR>practice *never* to put &W in a modem init.
NL>string, TR>and I always advise others to use &W only when
NL>needed. TR>YMMV, and all that stuff.
NL>JG>Thanks for the background. I've now fallen in line <g>
NL>TR>Your modem will love you. :-) Are you the one with the
NL>Windows TR>setup that did that for you? :-) I think the
NL>manufacturer TR>wanted to sell you another modem, eventually.
NL>It's a Hayes Optima 288 VFC+Fax and it must be quite rugged as
NL>I spent the first week after I bought it second hand failing
NL>to get it to work until I substituted 9v AC for the 9V DC I'd
NL>been using <g>
Well, if it's a Hayes, you couldn't buy one new if you wanted it. Maybe
in a still shrink-wrapped box from a warehouse somewhere, the way I
bought my Courier, but not exactly new. At any rate, yes, most modems
require AC. I can't remember what the details are, but the AC is used
for some kind of timebase, I do believe. It's been that way since the
old Commodore VIC-20 days. They always piped 9vac to the user port,
specifically for modems that plugged in there.
-- 73 DE Tom Rutherford, N8EUJ, Burton, MI
I am Murphy of Borg. Anything that can be assimilated will be.
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