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Re: ThinkPad 560 questions



At 08:46 AM 12/5/97, Paul Khoury wrote:
>>>3.1.  How about connecting an external modem (regular PC modem) to the
>>>      serial port?  Any problems with this setup?
>>
>>	Haven't done it, but the serial port supports 14550-type buffer chip, so I
>>don't foresee any problem in doing so.
>
>Actually, this doesn't sound like an existant chip.  I think Randy meant a
16550,

	Yup.  That's it.  :-)

	It was quite an issue on the 750's, as their external serial port
supported only a 16450-type UART chip, and that just wasn't fast enough for
any decent, fast (then 14.4K) modem.


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Randal J. Whittle		whittle@usc.edu	(213) 740-7775
Director, Electronic Commerce Program
Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California