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From: alexr@apple.com (Alexander M. Rosenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: U N C L E ! !
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Date: 4 Sep 90 20:30:42 GMT
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References:<90243.155827DLP@psuvm.psu.edu> <3376@syma.sussex.ac.uk>

In article <3376@syma.sussex.ac.uk> paulr@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Paul T 
Russell) writes:
> From article <90243.155827DLP@psuvm.psu.edu>, by DLP@psuvm.psu.edu 
(David L. Passmore):
> > Ok, I give up!
> > 
> > I don't think that this AppleFax modem will ever work. I have tried it 
on
> > a Mac IIcx and a Mac+. I keep getting system error 11-- "Misc hardware 
error."
> > I am beginning to believe that this is true.
> > 
> > Is there ANY assistance out there? Should we just throw these AppleFax
> > modems away in the IBM PC trash? Does anyone else out there experience 
this?
> 
> We bought a number of AppleFax modems about a year ago and they all seem
> to be failing about now. (A couple of them are still working). I gather
> that Apple is no longer making the AppleFax modem (I wonder why ?).
> The nicest alternative FAX modem I saw at Boston MacWorld was the
> FlexFAX but it's expensive at $899.
> 
> I doubt that there's any way of getting these modems fixed, so, yes, I
> think it's time to write them off as a bad loss and start looking for a
> decent alternative - any recommendations from satisfied FAX modem
> users would be appreciated (we would need them to work with BackFAX/
> FaxGate).
> 
> //Paul

I was under the impression that you could get hardware repairs. The 
software is no longer suported. (As I understand it.)

You should also be able to obtain the latest ROMs. (1.1) These ROMs fixed 
an incompatibility with some fax machines that did not meet the Group III 
spec correctly. (Mainly Pitney-Bowes machines.)

I guess that its safe to mention an Easter Egg. Hold in the Pass-thru 
swicth when you turn your AppleFax on. It should beep three times. If you 
follow the third beep with three presses of the button, timed as the beeps 
were, then you will hear, "Peter, Allen, Neil" These are the names of the 
software engineers.

NOTE: I am not speaking for Apple in any official way. These are my own
opinions, and all information contained here may not be accurate in any
way. (Even though I was on the AppleFax test team. :( )
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