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From: hv@uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama LAKE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Serial Port Not Available!
Message-ID: <1990Jun20.094316.25882@uwasa.fi>
Date: 20 Jun 90 09:43:16 GMT
References: <1990Jun12.232801.10145@swbatl.sbc.com> <14065@csli.Stanford.EDU> <1990Jun13.164932.5665@swbatl.sbc.com>
Organization: University of Vaasa
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In article <1990Jun13.164932.5665@swbatl.sbc.com> george@swbatl.UUCP (George D. Nincehelser) writes:
>In article <14065@csli.Stanford.EDU> anderson@csli.Stanford.EDU (Steve Anderson) writes:
>>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.
>IT WORKS!    
>It solved my problem.  Thanks much for the help!
>P.S.  Someone should send this to sumex-aim.stanford.edu.  Very handy.

It helped me too. Thanks. 
BTW, it is also archived at funic.funet.fi (128.214.6.100)
You can find it in pub/mac/appl and it is called spconfig_reset.bin

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