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From: anderson@csli.Stanford.EDU (Steve Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Serial Port Not Available!
Summary: Serial port fix (PRAM zapper)
Message-ID: <14065@csli.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 13 Jun 90 12:30:20 GMT
References: <1990Jun12.232801.10145@swbatl.sbc.com>
Sender: anderson@csli.Stanford.EDU (Steve Anderson)
Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.
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There have been a couple of postings lately from people whose serial
ports have have been disabled. That happened to me a while ago (effect
of a MIDI device), and a solution was kindly provided by Matthew
Kaufman (matthew@ucscb.ucsc.edu). He also posted it, so I imagine he
has no objection to its being posted again. It's short, and it worked
fine for me. It just resets the PRAM, which certain devices can put
into a pathological state that is otherwise hard to recover from.

Steve Anderson
anderson@sapir.cog.jhu.edu
anderson@cs.jhu.edu
anderson@csli.stanford.edu

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