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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 1987
Filed:
Aug. 20, 1985
Stephen J Durham, Cupertino, CA (US);
Cermetek Microelectronics, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A device having a universal receiver transmitter, a modem, and a mode selector switch. The mode selector switch is used to switch the serial data side of the universal receiver transmitter between the modem and the host terminal whereby the universal modem receiver transmitter can be substituted into a host terminal where a universal receiver transmitter had been located, and the universal modem receiver transmitter can perform the function of the universal receiver transmitter or can perform as a universal receiver transmitter and modem, facilitating data format conversion between formats appropriate to the host terminals parallel data bus and a format appropriate for telephone line data transmission.