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- Date: Sunday, 1 April 1984 17:27-MST
- From: hplabs!tektronix!teklds!hercules!glennw at Ucb-Vax.ARPA
- To: info-micro at Brl-Aos.ARPA
- Re: USR S-100 modem
-
- Message to net.micro from MEAD@USC-ECLB.ARPA:
-
- >Well, I finally got fed up with its dumb power-up off-hook mode. I
- >keep forgetting to run the modem program to clear things. So, avid
- >warranty voider that I am, I made a mod to the pcb so that it comes
- >up on-hook, yet retains program control of off-hook. Just requires
- >two little wires, and a cut diode lead. Seems to be working fine.
- >Oh, it will also require changing the sense of the DTR bit, to normal!
- >I will give details to interested parties....so much for logic in design,
- >must be a Detroit car engineer.
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-
- We (Widener Consulting) have been distributing USR modems over a year.
- We encountered the DTR problem with our first S100's, and now ship
- all of them with the mod for normal DTR operation. The mod is
-
- 1. Remove D17 (disables separate relay control)
- 2. Cut the trace from U3 pin 32 to ground (3/8" above U7-1 on back side).
- 3. Connect the DTR~ pin (U22-24) to U3-32 (pin 32 is modem disable).
- Run a wire from the U22 side of D17 to the cut trace by U7.
-
- Simple, but USR hasn't done it, even though I told them to a long time
- ago. Warranty is no problem (if you get it through us, since USR knows
- that we are doing the mod).
-
- Glenn Widener
- Widener Consulting
- 2835 NE Brogden
- Hillsboro, OR 97124
- 503-648-0363
-