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- From: nick@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: New powerbooks/duos (powerbook tuner)
- Message-ID: <NICK.92Aug26113844@vaila.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 10:38:44 GMT
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- In-reply-to: fuchs@strauss.crhc.uiuc.edu's message of 25 Aug 92 14:59:58 GMT
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- In article <l9kineINNh9@strauss.crhc.uiuc.edu> fuchs@strauss.crhc.uiuc.edu (W. Kent Fuchs) writes:
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- From personal experience, I was experiencing LOTS of errors
- in transferring files at 38400 BAUD in a direct connection between
- my Sun workstation and a PB 170 using the external modem port.
-
- Dropping in the Powerbook turner obtained from rascal.ics.utexas.edu
- /misc/mac/support-of-products/Apple/PowerBookTuner_1.0a2_hqx
- ELIMINATED all the errors. Removing the tuner causes the file
- transfer errors to reappear.
-
- Hmm. Perhaps it patches the driver(s) in the CTB to use the PollProc
- hack to capture lost data. Are you using the CTB? The Tuner certainly
- doesn't fix MIDI.
-
- Nick.
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- Nick Rothwell, LFCS, Edinburgh | "Say, how many contemporary dancers are
- nick@dcs.ed.ac.uk | there in this bar?"
- CASSIEL Contemporary Music/Dance | "Dunno; count the Dr. Martens and
- cassiel@cix.compulink.co.uk | divide by two..."
-