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- From: bjheyboer@space.honeywell.com (Brian Heyboer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A-3000 CIA's fried but working?
- Date: 7 Feb 1996 17:11:45 GMT
- Organization: Honeywell Space Systems
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- In article <4esstd$gha@newsbf02.news.aol.com> rich924@aol.com (Rich 924)
- writes:
-
- >I was plugging in a serial cable on the back of my A-3000 and I saw a
- >spark and the power supply went off! I switched power off and restarted
- >the machine, and I can dial up BBS no problem, print in color no problem.
- >But the A-3000 used to be able to read serial IO at TTL levels from my
- >mircocontroller boards, and now it does not. Are the A-3000 CIA's socketed
- >or surface mount? Where can I get new ones if they are socketed?
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- The CIA that controls the serial port is connected via a 1488 RS-232 driver and
- 1489 RS-232 receiver. I would suspect those before the CIA.
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