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From: ART100@psuvm.psu.edu (Andy Tefft)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: How are //c serial port settings saved?
Message-ID: <90211.235901ART100@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 31 Jul 90 03:59:01 GMT
Organization: Penn State University
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It was suggested to me that reconfiguring my serial ports
might help with the problems I've been having, since apparently
the settings get lost after a few years or due to some random
events. I'd always thought that the serial port configuration
was lost when the power was shut off. Anyway I did as suggested
and the only change I made was to change the modem from 300 baud
(I'd never changed that since I got the //c, but have been using
1200 and 2400 baud modems anyway) and it apparently did the trick
(pending some heavy-use tests).

So anyway, are the settings stored permanently somehow? If so,
how could they be erased? Excessive heat, brief power loss,
voltage fluctuation on the serial lines?