WARNING: check before your 3-month warranty are up

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Subject: WARNING: check before your 3-month warranty are up
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Date: Fri, 2-Nov-84 06:54:52 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 2 06:54:52 1984
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From: Werner Uhrig
[ I should have thought of posting this earlier, really ... ]

Friends, 2 months ago, I hooked up "Micky" to a modem. First, no problem,
then, intermittently vertical "snow", then one morning Micky was fuzzy and
wouldn't start, screen looked like a blizzard and Micky moaned woefully.

After disconnecting the modem-cable, Micky worked fine. Simply connecting the
cable to the modem-port caused Micky to "freak out", even with no modem
connected to the cable. As I had built the cable myself, I suspected the
cable, disconnected the grounded lead to pin 8 - no help. 2 days later,
Mickey decided to cooperate again with the modem, however, any time a character
came "down the pipe", Micky would generate several horizontal lines of
"snow-storm-regions" on the screen.

Took it in, they replaced the logic board, Mickey worked ever since (with
the same cable and same modem - and I was afraid for a while, that I had
screwed up there ...)

Moral: exercise the modem port a lot before your warranty is up.

PS: why "Mickey" ? use your imagination and you'll get it right. (-:
(long live the Z100 - a computer the few of us can expand onto)
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