On May 3, 2012, at 2:25 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
    [1] Although not always. The serial port in my HP9817
was defective when
 I got the machine and I found that not only were the buffers damaged, so
 was the 8250 serial chipe (yes, an 8250 in a 68K machine. Odd...). I am
 not sure what had happened to the machine. 
 Odd indeed.  Lots of 68K machines used 8350s, but that's a very
 different chip. 
 
 What's an 8350? Do you mean Z8530 (the serial chip used in older Macs),
 ro is this some other device I've not come across? 
 
*sigh* Yes, that's what I meant.  Brain fart resulting in transposition.
- Dave