Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!iuvax!silver!beldavsa
From: beldavsa@silver.bacs.indiana.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Ok to unplug modem?
Message-ID: <36400016@silver>
Date: 6 Nov 88 23:27:00 GMT
Organization: Indiana University CSCI, Bloomington
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Nf-From: silver.bacs.indiana.edu!beldavsa    Nov  6 18:27:00 1988


I have been using a very old 1200 baud Racal Vadic modem with my Amiga (when
it works), and I have found that the power supply heats up quite a bit
if left on for very long periods of time - this tends to screw the modem
up as well.  Unfortunatly, there is no "on/off" switch, so the only
way to turn the damn thing off is to unplug it.  Anyway, I have a freind
that fried his Amiga by unpluging the serial port from the Amiga that was
attached to his modem.  I am wandering if the same effect can occur from
simply unplugging the modem from the power strip.  I would rather not
turn my Amiga off each time I want to use my modem (so that I can plug
it in with the power off).  So: is it safe to unplug the modem from the
power strip, while its STILL attached to the Amiga (1000) through the serial
port, AND while the Amiga is still on?  Is it safe to plug the modem in
at these circumstances as well?

Thanks!

(Sorry if this sounds like a stupid question, but in the matters of computer
hardware, I'm not exactly the most "enlightened".