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From: palmer@unc.UUCP (Thomas C. Palmer)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Apple 1200 modem problem?
Message-ID: <646@unc.unc.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 24-Nov-85 11:22:31 EST
Article-I.D.: unc.646
Posted: Sun Nov 24 11:22:31 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 26-Nov-85 20:16:18 EST
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Organization: CS Dept, U. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill
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I use an Apple 1200 modem for communications between my Mac and
our department's machines.  From the first I experienced rare
instances of what I assumed was phone line noise - random scramblings
of characters lasting a second or two.  No problem; exercise that ^L
key.  Recently however it has become much worse.  It is particularly
distressing when using the uw multi-window terminal emulator.  It seems
that the random characters sometimes match uw escape sequences with wild
results: windows appear and disappear or my Mac locks up (no menu access,
keyboard response) and needs to be rebooted.  The problem is independent
of Mac terminal program.

Questions:

 - Does anyone else experience frequent noise?

 - Could this be a modem hardware problem or just really noisy phone
   lines?

 - Regarding uw: Has anyone else had trouble with it over phone lines?
   I don't have the RAM serial driver and I wasn't running uwtool.
   When uw is running smoothly it's a dream.  The adm31 emulation is
   light years ahead of vt100 for UNIX emacs.  I don't want to give
   it up!

					Thanks,
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-Tom            Thomas C. Palmer
palmer@unc      decvax!mcnc!unc!palmer