RS> Its not too clear what you are actually asking me. If you
RS> are asking if you can just forget about the problem now
RS> on your more modern machines, yes, thats basically true.

PE> That's what I'm asking, and why.

RS> The XT has a fault.

And the fault was?

RS> The XT is likely fixable so it doesnt
RS> do that, but presumably its binned now.

PE> Seen quite a deal of activity actually.  Gets lent
PE> out to chinese people, and gets used to test comms.

RS> I'd bin it myself. It really isnt worth the effort to fix the fault.

No, it doesn't have a broken comms port at the moment, just that it
still sparks if I'm not careful (or switch the machine off), and that
many years ago, the com port was actually broken because of that.
And actually, when I sent it to a repair centre in Artarmon, the
fuckwits wiped my hard disk.  :-(  BFN.  Paul.
@EOT:

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