Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uwvax!ai!neves From: neves@ai.cs.wisc.edu (David M. Neves) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Obsolete //c ? Message-ID: <8710@spool.cs.wisc.edu> Date: 5 Oct 89 18:32:02 GMT References: <8910042034.aa03315@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Sender: news@spool.cs.wisc.edu Reply-To: neves@ai.cs.wisc.edu (David M. Neves) Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 23 In article <8910042034.aa03315@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) writes: >On Tue, 3 Oct 89 18:32:11 GMT you said: ... >>He had purchased a 1200 baud modem, only to discover that his ... >>the UCSD campus, because of an outdated motherboard! > >VERY outdated!! Once-upon-a-time Apple dealers replaced those motherboards >for nothing (as long as you furnished proof that you owned a non-Apple brand >1200 baud modem). I seem to remember the 1200 baud problem occured only in the 1st year of production of //c's and was only a problem with 8 bit transfers (such as would occur in XMODEM) and not with regular ASCII (7 bit) terminal emulation. If your son has a relatively new //c the motherboard is not the problem. If he has an old motherboard he can still do ASCII sends and receives of files (and perhaps even Kermit). As was stated before I believe that Apple will replace the motherboard if it is an old one trying to communicate at 1200 baud. ;David Neves, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison ;Usenet: {rutgers,ucbvax}!uwvax!neves ;Arpanet: neves@cs.wisc.edu