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Atari 1030 Documentation

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The Atari 1030 documentation below is the owner's guide for the Atari 1030 Direct-Connect Modem.

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The owner's guide is Atari, Inc.'s user manual for the modem and its built-in ModemLink program, part number C061798 Rev. A, © 1983. The hosted scan has 25 pages, cover and warranty page included.

Contents

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Section Page
What ModemLink can do for you 3
Hooking up your Atari 1030 Direct-Connect Modem 4
Starting up with ModemLink 6
Choosing between pulse and tone dialing 7
Dialing from the keyboard 7
Manual dialing with the telephone 8
Switching from originate to answer 9
HELP when you're on line 10
Questions & answers 14
Helpful definitions 16
ASCII character codes 18

After the ASCII tables come the FCC Part 68 instructions for connecting to the telephone network, the radio interference notice and Penril DataComm's limited 30-day warranty, which names Penril as the manufacturer of the modem.

What this guide does not contain

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  • A technical specification beyond the Bell 103, 300 bit/s, full-duplex FSK description in the questions and answers and definitions. The power adaptor rating is not given.
  • Any schematic, parts list or service procedure.
  • The T: device handler's escape-sequence commands. These are documented in Russ Wetmore's article in Antic vol. 4 no. 4 (August 1985), cited on the Atari 1030 page.

Pages that cite this guide

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  • Atari 1030: specifications, connections, ModemLink, setting up, the fault table and the warranty

Download: Atari 1030 Modem Owner's Guide.pdf