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- From: tex@rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk (Brian {Hamilton Kelly})
- Newsgroups: demon.tech.modems,comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Mr. Modem V1428VQH Voice/Fax/Modem - how to use it?
- Date: 28 Mar 96 15:17:53 +0100
- Organization: Royal Military College of Science, Cranfield University
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- Message-ID: <1996Mar28.151753.1@rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk>
- References: <71HDZfAZspVxoAoh@turnpike.com> <iZWzCDATqmWxoABj@turnpike.com>
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- In article <iZWzCDATqmWxoABj@turnpike.com>, Dave English
- <DavidE@turnpike.com> writes:
- > In article <Pine.SUN.3.91.960326074639.18863B@itsop2>, "Daniel (Doni)
- > Rosenzweig" <drosenzw@its.brooklyn.cuny.edu> writes
- >>I don't know about Mr. Modem - but Boca's AT&T controllerless chipset
- >>modem comes with BOTH Windows AND DOS drivers.
- >
- > Yes, I have seen that.
- >
- > The Boca modem apparently comes with both Window and DOS software. I
- > think the Dynalink comes with Windows drivers only.
-
- Do any of them come with OS/2 software? :-)
-
- In private e-mail on this subject, someone said they thought that Mr. Modems
- no longer existed, and that Microcomputer Research didn't exist either. If
- this is the case, can someone confirm it here, because it would then appear
- that *someone* (Askey?) is guilty of a "passing off" offence (to say nothing
- of the possible fictitious BABT approval).
-
- > One of the .inf files for the Boca has a comment referring to Banzai
- > linear addressing, it looks as though Banzai linear addressing would be
- > an alternative to the Boca way. I have been told that the Dynalink
- > needs Banzai software.
- >
- > The Dynalink documentation looks a little confusing on i/o addressing.
- > It appear to refer to 03f8, 0f8 ... as well as blocks of 64 continuous
- > addresses from 0100, 0180 ... There is also a reference to 83f8, 82f8
- > ..., perhaps that is a miss-print.
-
- Yes, I noticed all that about the documentation too.
-
- I also noticed, and this too worried me, that there was no mention of an
- AT&W command in the chapter relating to commands. Not only that, but ATZ0
- and ATZ1 were both described as "Restore factory settings", as was AT&F.
- This led me to believe that it cannot save customer profiles, which makes it
- less than useless for most applications. OTOH, the next chapter, relating
- to the S registers, starts out by saying that those marked with an asterisk
- can be stored in either of two customer profiles with AT&W0/AT&W1, that
- either of these may be restored by ATZ0/ATZ1, and that AT&Y0/AT&Y1 can be
- used to select which profile is restored by ATZ; this is like normal modem
- operation. Is it that the manual is written in Taiwanglish, or did two
- departments have different inputs to the documentation/design process?
-
- I've been speaking to the UK distributor's technical support guy, who has
- agreed to swap it for an external model (without the voice facilities); he
- also told me that he's been talking to their MD, saying that they "must get
- some internal modems that behave normally vis-a-vis COM port addressing,
- because all the problems with these virtual COM ports are making his job
- impossible <g>
-
- --
- Brian {Hamilton Kelly} TeX@rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk
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