Re: CD-ROM for gs

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

labelas@hotmail.com (Labelas Enoreth) wrote:

>supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
>
>> "trippinLizard" <hobbit102@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >Also i have a teleport/bronze modem that i can't even find info for at the
>> >Global Village website (i.e. how fast, special software...). will any term
>> >program access the modem? if anyone has info either post it here or email
me
>> >at ninespace@yahoo.com. thanks in advance...!
>> 
>> As long as it is a standard Hayes Compatible modem with an RS-232
>> serial port, IIGS terminal software will access it.  There's also a IIGS
>> web browser, IIGS TCP/IP, IIGS telnet, and IIGS ftp.  The IIGS' modem
>> port supports speeds up to 56k for use with modems.
>
>Two questions here, I asked them before but cannot remember if they were
>fully answered...the GV TelePort series modems from 2400 to 33.6 were
>(with a few exceptions, yes) powered by plugging them into the ADB port.
>Will this work correctly on a IIgs? Also, I never went ahead and tried

If it is just sucking power from the ADB port, it'll work with the IIGS.  Such
modems also have a serial cable to do the actual transfer.  The Supra
Express Mac modems, for example, are like this.  Power from ADB.  Data
via serial.  The Supra Express works great with the IIGS.

If it is using the ADB port for data transfer, it won't work with the IIGS
since
no drivers exist for the modem.

>using one (a Teleport hooked up to a mac) without the drivers
>(Global...something or other) at that point in time, but I've been told
>that certain GV TP modems utilized the computer's processor for some of
>the load of data transfer and compression (like the GeoPort TA, I
>suppose)...so I suspect that the higher rate GVs wouldn't work...however,
>the Bronze is only 2400 so I guess there wouldn't be a problem, barring
>the ADB issue. But I guess it doesn't need any sort of identification or
>recognition for that, just the dumb sucking of power.

Well, if it needs a driver, that's a bad sign.

The modems you are referring to that use the computer's CPU are
basically shells for software modems.  If I recall, some Macs, like the
A/V models, had software modems built into firmware.  You just
need one of these port boxes to use them.  The port that the boxes
dangled off was called GeoPort, hence the name.

I don't think such modems are popular anymore.