Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nuchat!buster!brain!root
From: root@brain.UUCP (Chuck Shotton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: MAC II serial port problems
Message-ID: <210@brain.UUCP>
Date: 11 Feb 90 00:27:57 GMT
References: <23884@ipl.jpl.nasa.gov>
Organization: BIAP Systems
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tcg060@ipl.jpl.nasa.gov (Tom Greer) writes:

>HELP!
>For the fourth time in my Mac II's life, the modem port has died.  The 
>first two times, it "healed" itself.  Once, right in front of the Mac 
>repair person.  The next time, my Mac was taken away for a week and then
>returned with the comment that nothing was wrong... except for my hard disk
>which crashed when the repair folks dropped it.  

>Has anyone seen this?  Know a simple fix?

Every time this has happened to me, UNPLUGGING the Mac II after zapping PRAM and
shutting down has worked. Let the thing sit for about 10 minutes unplugged, and
then power it up. Works for me.