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From: kevin@voder.UUCP (The Last Bugfighter)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari8
Subject: XM301+1050=0
Message-ID: <1373@voder.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Jun-86 21:43:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: voder.1373
Posted: Wed Jun 18 21:43:20 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Jun-86 09:33:13 EDT
Reply-To: kevin@voder.UUCP (The Last Bugfighter)
Organization: National Semiconductor, Santa Clara
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   I've owned an Atari XM301 modem for about a month now and it's been working
just fine with my old 810 disk drive, recently I got a brand new 1050 drive
and the XM301 won't work with it!  The problem is in loading the modem soft-
ware.  When you boot the system the drive runs for about 5 seconds then stops
and waits for about 10-15 seconds, then it loads a bit more, then it waits a
bit, and so on...  It took almost 10 minutes to load 1030 EXPRESS! and other
modem programs are just as bad.
   This is a stock Atari 800 with 48k and the revision B OS with a stock XM301
and a stock 1050.  The 1050 otherwise works fine, so I don't suspect it, and
the modem loads fine with my old 810, so I don't suspect the modem but a
combination of the 1050 and the XM301.
  When I told the dealer where I bought the modem from about the problem he
thought I was insane (maybe, but besides the point).  Anyone have any ideas?

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Kevin Thompson   {ucbvax,pyramid,nsc}!voder!kevin

"It's a sort of threat, you see.  I've never been very good at them
  myself but I'm told they can be very effective."