Re: Help with Apple IIc+ and ProTerm on BBS

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <5gpc0n$1n4s@uni.library.ucla.edu>,
 <pubpc1@library.ucla.edu> wrote:

[big snip]

>The modem is shared with a '486 and connected to a rotary box.
>When I absolutely need Netscape, I switch it over to the PC
>but where possible, I stick with the GS.  Text links are just
>much faster and the PC is only running at 25MHz, which makes it
>slow at terminal software and word processing compared to the
>(13.75MHz) GS.

If that's the solution you find optimal, fine. I have modems to spare so I
put one on each box. And naturally the one with the greater need for for 
speed gets the faster modem.

>My point is that even though YOU don't want to use your IIgs to
>its full potential and so don't bother finding out what's making
>your particular GS unable to run at 38400, you should not make it
>seem that the computer can't handle such speeds.  There are many
>people who read this newsgroup who will take such a statement at
>face value.  The GS can, in fact, use a 33600 modem.

If you take my statement at face value, you would see that I didn't try
very hard to make it work, and definitely did not say that it could not 
be done. To infer otherwise would require not paying attention. In general,
how much effort do you put into making something work when you know you'll
never use it and you're just experimenting? I knew I'd never use my magneto
optical on any of my IIgses either, which is good since trying to get it
to work went nowhere at all.

>You could probably get it to work on your system, had you figured
>out the correct INIT string and booted into ProDOS 8 directly,
>without all the memory resident baggage.  It certainly works on
>other GS systems.

Well good, that means that people who want to use a 28800 can do so. Is
there a problem?

>Now that SIS is out, this may all change.  Imagine Spectrum, running
>under The Manager, with the SIS web browser.  Not only could you
>play a CD if you want, you could also play a background synthLAB,
>SoundSmith, or MOD file.

That's great too, for people who want to use it. I simply find Netscape,
Fetch, telnet, etc, much easier. But you'll not get CD audio to come out
the internal speaker in a IIgs, I'll just bet ya.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
shack@frii.com