Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Obsolete //c ? Message-ID: <8910071353.aa04204@ADM.BRL.MIL> Date: 7 Oct 89 18:43:23 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: School of Business - U. of Connecticut Lines: 28 On Thu, 5 Oct 89 18:32:02 GMT you said: >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. Your memory is faulty. I have seen the problem up close and personal. It's a timing problem and it doesn't matter if the incoming characters are a file transfer packet or an ordinary line of text to be displayed on the screen. If that's the problem, it effects everything. Also, from first person observation, some of those early motherboards were in store inventories for some time AFTER Apple started making the newer motherboards. The original board works with an Apple Personal Modem, so LOTS were sold and did not come back because the user hadn't discovered the problem existed. A colleague of mine discovered the flaw two years after the fact when her Apple brand modem died and she replaced it with an Avatex (which cost less than the repair estimate for the Apple modem). Murph Sewall Vaporware? ---> [Gary Larson returns 1/1/90] Prof. of Marketing Sewall@UConnVM.BITNET Business School sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu [INTERNET] U of Connecticut {psuvax1 or mcvax }!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL [UUCP] (203) 486-5246 [FAX] (203) 486-2489 [PHONE] 41 49N 72 15W [ICBM] The opposite of artificial intelligence is genuine stupidity! -+- I don't speak for my employer, though I frequently wish that I could (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited)