Re: new apple user help.

[Erick Wagner <wagnere@netcom.com>]

sysop@acclink.com (David Graham) wrote:
>I collect older computers. I just got my FIRST apple two. It is a IIc, 
>where can I get a cable to use a modem? What is a decent, comm program 
>for it, and what is the fastest modem I can put on here. I was told
>2400, but I see that you can configure a printer to 19200 so can you
>gothatr fast on the 2c on the modem port?

There have been several ROM revisions for the IIc.  Early versions
had bugs which caused problems with high-speed communications (I
think anything about 2400bps).

Newer ROM versions solved that problem but the IIc/IIc+ serial ports
do not provide true hardware handshaking and this will probably
cause problems at rates above 9600bps.

The 6551 chip can be configured to operate at 19200 but I don't know
if you can really expect to operate at that level.

The most common printers for use on the IIc were the ImageWriter (I)
and ImageWriter II;  both of these printers expect to operate at
9600bps.

Erick