Re: Need Apple 2e info + SSC man/info

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In article <38110d01.0@ecn.ab.ca>,  <dalef@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
>I'd like to either get the modem working or the SSC working to connect to
>a local Apple user group here in Edmonton, Canada.

I'd get an external modem and run it off of the SSC.  It'll only be good up
to 19.2 kbps, though.  There are supposed to be mods/upgrades available that
allow it to go faster, but I've never used 'em (upgraded my IIe to a IIGS a
few years back, and its serial ports are good for up to 57.6 kbps
out-of-the-box).  The Micromodem IIe is only good for 300 bps, which was
aggravatingly slow 10 years ago and hasn't gotten any better since.  Getting
it to work might be good for sh*ts and grins, but little else.

>Also can anyone tell me about the Hayes Micromodem IIe.  Is it a 300 baud
>modem only?  I'm missing the cable connector from the card to a RJ45 jack
>I believe.  There are some pins near the back end of the card but no cable
>and hence no connector to the wall outlet.

The modem's Part 68 interface (the electronics needed to connect to a phone
line while staying within FCC regulations) is in an external box that plugs
into a 9-pin connector on the card that goes into the computer.  If you
only have the card, then you only have half of the modem.  Duplicating its
function would be non-trivial; it's more than just connecting the phone line
to two of the pins on the card.

>Does the Micromodem IIe have a built in telecommunications program or a
>terminal emulation?

I haven't tried mine yet; it came with a II+ and I haven't done much of
anything with it (the computer itself took a bit of work to get it running
right).  The only modem I've run across that had built-in comm software was
Applied Engineering's DataLink 2400 (the DataLink 1200 might've had on-board
software as well, but the 2400 is what I used back in the day).

>I don;t have any software for either the Super Serial Card or the modem.
>Does anyone know if a freeware/shareware program exists and where to get
>it?

Nearly any Apple II comm program will support the SSC; some free examples
are Kermit and (I think) Talk Is Cheap.  (TIC used to be commercial, but I
think it was reclassified a while back.)  TIC doesn't support the
Micromodem, but Kermit might (it lists the "Micromodem II Modem Card" as an
option).

The Treasure Chest Project website (http://www.treasurechestproject.org)
doesn't have any of its IIe/IIc titles relisted yet, so I was unable to
verify if TIC is available.  The last version of Kermit released for the II
is available at these URLs:

ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/a/app387.1
ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/a/app387.2

These are text files which you can EXEC under either DOS 3.3 or ProDOS to
build the binaries to run Kermit.  The trick, of course, will be to get them
to your computer.  If push comes to shove, though, you could just print out
the files and type them in yourself.  (What, you never typed in programs
from Nibble? :-) )

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