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- From: mpa@iig.com.au (Mark P Allen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: GpFax Drunk "where is the modem"
- Date: 8 Apr 1996 10:48:15 GMT
- Message-ID: <1003.6672T837T2421@iig.com.au>
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- On 07-Apr-96 02:50:08, Richard J. Dane wrote:
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- RJD>: Drat. One thing you may check (when you're ready to open up your Amiga)
- RJD>: is the CIA that is related to the serial port (U350?). The simplest was
- RJD>: is to swap your CIA chips and see what behaviour changes (problems
- RJD>: should be removed from the serial port, and maybe seen in parallel
- RJD>: and/or SCSI ports instead).
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- RJD> It always gives me the shivers to touch chips because of possible
- RJD> electrostatics. (eventhough I studied AC, DC theory and electronics
- RJD> repair in the Military.)
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- :^) I never had such training, but havce been inand out of my machines
- hundreds of times, swapping ROMs, chips, cards etc. I always ground
- myself on the bare metal chassis of my A3000T as I remove chips and handle
- cards and drives etc, and have never had a problem.
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- Regards,
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- Mark
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