From: msampo@aol.com   
      
   In article ,   
    Ryan Frederick  wrote:   
      
   > On 6/24/10 10:21 PM, Jonah Falcon wrote:   
   > > Mike: You might wanna be careful, hi everybody, welcome to the Satellite   
   > > of Love! You're just in time to see ol' Crow here log onto the   
   > > Information Superhighway! Why don't you tell us about your system there,   
   > > Crow?   
   > > Crow: Oh, you know. It's just a multimedia package, nothing special. A   
   > > 90 mHz. Pentium with 32 megs of RAM and a quadruple speed NEC CD-ROM,   
   > > Soundblaster 16 multi-CD sound card, I threw that in... And a Courier   
   > > v.24 38 Kbaud modem.   
   > > Servo: And you think that'll make you happy, huh?   
   > > Crow: Yeah! Accessing SLIP server... Entering my IP address... Okay...   
   > > Crow@biteme.com... Hahaha... And... ENTER!   
   > > Servo: Huh? "Server timed out, try again"?   
   > > Crow: Oh. I can read, thank you! Must've typed the wrong parameters...   
   > > Mike: But soon, you will be merging onto the Information...   
   > > Crow: That's right, Mike! I'll be pulling out into the Information   
   > > Superhighway... and... uh... traffic... well, uh...   
   > > Mike: Looks like it locked up, huh?   
   > > Servo: "Looking for UART at FX1050"? What does that mean?   
   > > Crow: I DON'T KNOW!!! I must've configured my com ports incorrectly. You   
   > > know, I'll just assign my modem to a different com port and get back   
   > > into my SLIP server and... uh...   
   > > Servo: Woah!   
   > > Mike: Locked up tight!   
   > > Servo: "Looking for UART at FX1050."   
   > > Crow: I CAN READ!!! Don't you think I can read?!   
   > > Servo: Gee, sorry!   
   > > Crow: Alright! Okay... I'll try this... LET ME ON THE INFORMATION   
   > > SUPERHIGHWAY YOU STUPID LITTLE...   
   > > Servo: Still looking for UART at FX1050.   
   > > Crow: LET ME ON THE INFORMATION SUPER HIGHWAY!!! I WANT ON THE   
   > > INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY!!!   
   > > Mike: We'll be right back! Careful with that! Calm down! Calm down!   
   >   
   > IIRC the specs on Crow's machine were pretty sweet for that time.  In   
   > the least they were much better than mine back then.  I didn't have the   
   > capability to get on the Internets with my box, all I could do was dial   
   > in to the Unix box downtown housing the library's card catalog.   
      
   As for Crow's technical problem, when we did this episode for the   
   episode guide, "PeterK" wrote:   
   "UART stands for universal asynchronous receiver ­ transmitter, which is   
   a chip that manages communications between the computer and peripheral   
   devices like modems, printers and so forth. Hardware, in other words. In   
   the old days it was set by DIP switches, where you had to set 8 or more   
   little switches up or down."   
      
   Don3K followed up with:   
   "Yeah, the long and short of Crow¹s issue was simply that his software   
   was not configured for his hardware, or his hardware was conflicting   
   with other hardware. Maybe his ISA Serial I/O card was not jumpered   
   correctly. Also a possibility ­ his program was set for the incorrect   
   IRQ or COM port configuration. So either the serial controller was dead,   
   bad, conflicting, or could not be found on the port and interrupt which   
   the software was using."   
      
   Sampo (then it got REAL technical)   
      
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