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to: JOE KRON
from: BRUCE WILSON
date: 1997-07-04 08:48:00
subject: Re: Modem Speed Setting

On 1 Jul 97 02:52pm, Joe Kron wrote to Doug Wilson:
 JK> At present I *do* have a very old system, 8088, with a 16450 
 JK> UART supporting the modem on the multi-function (COM:) expansion 
 JK> board. I was contemplating a faster modem, the afore mentioned 
 JK> 14.4, to get onto a BBS that excludes my present ancient one.
I've used a 33.6 "V.E." Courier with the motherboard COM port on a
"XT" 8086 "AT&T 6300" after replacing the 8250 chip on the MB with
a 16550AFN, locked port speed at 57.6, 1K download buffer, and with
Telix set to drop CTS during disk writes.
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