Re: Modem questions

From: Willi Kusche (willik_at_verizon.net)
Date: 2002-05-29 21:14:59

Hi, y'all!

On 29-May-02, William Levak wrote:

->I have a Commodore 1670 modem with 4 dip switches next to the telephone
->connector.  My manual mentions only 3 switches.  Does anyone know what the
->fourth switch is for (if anything)?


->While testing modem, I found that they would not work, or work very poorly
->on one C64, but work very well on another C64.  As far as I can tell,
->there is nothing wrong with either C64.  Is there some problem with some
->C64's and modem?

    At some point in time, the table of constants used by the RS-232 support
logic was changed in the ROMs.  So it's likely that the C64 that doesn't work
well with the modem has old ROMs.

Willi

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