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- From: jonz@edsi.plexus.COM (Jon Ziepke)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: modem schematics
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.144542.9807@edsi.plexus.COM>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 14:45:42 GMT
- Article-I.D.: edsi.1992Aug19.144542.9807
- References: <85917@netnews.upenn.edu> <5-4mmdk.wolfgang@netcom.com> <1992Aug12.190633.13440@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Aug14.231114.10144@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
- Organization: Enterprise Data Systems Incorporated, Appleton WI
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- leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson) writes:
-
- >aduell@nyx.cs.du.edu (Tony Duell) writes:
-
- >>Now for a pet flame about a Modem Manufacturer and a question
- >>I have a Dowty Quattro 2400 bps modem. I, too wanted the schematic. When I
- >>phoned up Dowty, they said 'People who buy our products are not capable of
- >>repairing them' . I have been doing electronics for 20 years, digital for
- >>15 years. I am capable of repairing all the rest of my computer hardware
- >>(including a DEC PDP11/45 with over 2000 IC's). Why is the modem so
- >>difficult? Why do Dowty insult their customers like that?. Anyway, does
-
- >Dowty *had* to tell you that. Per FCC regs, *you* cannot repair their
- >modem. Only one of the manufacturers authorized service techs can.
-
- >The same goes for *anything* that connects to a phone line. Also,
- >if *you* repair it and due to a goof it causes a problem with the
- >phone system, the phone company can go after *you*. I doubt you'd
- >cause any problems, but the law is intended to prevent Joe Hacker
- >from attaching a homebuilt device to the phone system.
-
- >This is not any different from the situation wit radio transmitters.
- >If you aren't licensed or at least a manufacters service tech, you
- >*cannot* legally work on it.
-
- I operate a national reapair center for all the products that my company
- manufactures, and I get calls all the time for people that want
- schematics, and have fount that it is a rare breed that can actually
- make use of them, it fact I have sent out over 250 set of the scematics
- and only 4 people have been able to actually use them to my knoledge,
- now I don't send them to anyone unless I have spoken to them on the
- phone and they have proved that the are technically inclined. I even
- have to bozos that have modified there products and then when somethng
- goes wrong they send the modified boards to me for repair, obviously I
- send them straight back. I have another guy they said he has fixed the
- schematics and wants to sell us the corrections, I was not even aware
- that we had a problem.
- Maybe you are one that can use the drawings, but there are two many
- jokers who can not and they are just a waste of time, money and have
- ruined it for the rest.
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