Need info on IIGS - hooking up modem

[Corinne Goeke <cgoeke@kodak.com>]

Hi!  I hope someone can help me.  My very computer-illiterate uncle wants to attach 
a modem to his Apple II GS so he can use e-mail to communicate with his daughter at 
college.  I happened to be visiting him last weekend (300 miles away, so I am now 
doing all this long distance) and took a quick peek at the back of the CPU.  Now I 
have a couple of questions:

1)  There is a circular port with a phone icon above it (a mini DIN-8 connector I 
believe???).  Is this a serial port?  Since the connector is present, should I 
expect that there is a UART chip inside attached to it and it is usable?  

2)  Assuming this is a serial port, I read somewhere in one of the Apple II 
newsgroups that I could get a "Mini DIN-8 to DB-25" cable and use that with a modem. 
 I am also assuming then he could use an old 1200 BPS Hayes Compatible modem I have 
lying around.  Correct?

3)  Where can I get some freeware/shareware terminal emulation software for the GS? 
 I don't believe he has any...unless some came with the system initially, I would 
have to have him search his stacks of disk for it.  Obviously I can't download it 
directly to the GS, due to the lack of emulation software!  If I downloaded it to 
another platform, how would I get it onto a disk readable by the GS?  All of my work 
takes place on PCs...but I could probably find a MAC to use.  The GS does have a 5 
1/4 and 3 1/2 inch drives.  Is the 3 1/2 inch drive compatible with one on a MAC?

Thanks in advance for the help.  
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Corinne Goeke			       Internet:  cgoeke@kodak.com
Eastman Kodak Company
Rochester, NY  14650-3041