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From: derosa@motcid.UUCP (John DeRosa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Serial Port Jammed
Message-ID: <6177@crystal.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 91 20:15:34 GMT
References: <5393@mindlink.UUCP>
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Div., Arlington Heights, IL
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Rick_McCormack@mindlink.UUCP (Rick McCormack) writes:

>| I have a macintosh that claims that its modem port is in use 'by
>| another application' whenever I try to access the port, via a terminal
>| emulator.  I have tried rebooting the mac, turning off appleshare and
>| zapping the pram, all to no avail.

I also had a serial port that was jammed but in a different manner.  I
finally found that it was caused by a noisey power supply.
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