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Private Mailboxes:

Private mailboxes allow you to leave voice mail in someone's private mailbox. To do this you have

to know the number of their mailbox. There are 1000 private mailboxes, so everyone in your club

can have their own. Each private mailbox can hold up to five messages at a time. You can retrieve

or delete the mail in your own mailbox without affecting anyone else's mailbox.

Interfacing:

The DVR can be ordered with or without an optional rack mount cabinet. There is not enough

room to mount it inside of the RLC-3 cabinet. Instead, there is a small interface board that plugs

into the RLC-3 motherboard's "DVR Connection", near the power plug. This interface board

should be installed with the chips and connector towards the edge of the RLC-3 motherboard (and

the blank side of the interface circuit board toward the radio cards). A short ribbon cable connects

this interface board to a DB-25 female connector that is mounted to a rectangular metal panel.

This panel should be placed inside the cabinet behind the top horizontal rectangular cutout in the

back of the cabinet. Four screws put into the corners of the panel from outside the cabinet hold it

in place.

A DB-25 male-male cable (included) plugs into this connector and into the DVR. The only other

required connection to the DVR is power (12 volts, center positive, plug included). Optional

connections include a backup power plug that can be connected to a battery pack or another power

supply (make sure ground is common between the supplies) to preserve the messages stored in the

DVR if the main power goes out. The remaining connector can be connected to a computer or

serial terminal (more about that later). Note that this serial port is separate from the serial port on

the controller.

Memory Installation and Testing:

The DVR supports four different memory configurations, all using 70ns or faster standard 30 pin

simms. Either 8 or 9 bit wide simms can be used; the parity bit is ignored. You may be able to

find 8 bit wide simms cheaper (they are used in Macs). Each configuration requires a different set

of EPROMS in the DVR:

Two one megabyte simms (2 megabytes total)

Four one megabyte simms (4 megabytes total)

Two four megabyte simms (8 megabytes total)

Four four megabyte simms (16 megabytes total)

If only two simms are installed, they must be in the RAM #1 sockets. Note that all of the simms

must be the same size. All of the memory is tested each time the DVR is powered up. If you want

to see the results of the memory test, connect a computer or serial terminal to the DVR (it need not

be connected to the RLC-3 at this time) and power up the DVR. You should see a printout on the

serial screen noting how much memory is expected (based on which version of the EPROMS you

have) and then how the memory test is progressing. If the DVR does not run at all, check the

power and the serial connection. The DVR will attempt to run even if errors are detected during

the memory test. If the memory test indicates that there are many errors, you may have the wrong