Re: [NTLK] Did I fry my Newton Modem?

From: Laurent Daudelin (laurent.daudelin_at_verizon.net)
Date: Thu Oct 17 2002 - 00:04:08 EDT

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on 16/10/02 23:46, Mark Janello at mjanello_at_newted.com wrote:

> I tried to download my mail from work the other day, and now my modem won't
> work. I have since sheepishly remembered that some office phone systems
> are not pleased to be connected to modems and therefore kill them. It's a
> large university office phone system (dial 9 to get out, 4-digit
> extensions, etc.), though I don't know any more than that.
>
> Anyway, now it can't detect a dial tone, even at home. I've reinstalled
> SimpleMail, restarted, tried the modem in the other slot. Nada.
>
> Ideas? Sell me a new modem?

You probably connected your modem to a digital jack and I'm afraid it is
dead. You can probably find cheap PCMCIA modems on eBay, or from some other
vendors on the Internet.

-Laurent.

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