Re: Apple II internal modem

[tturner@ecn.ab.ca ()]

Simon Williams (*email*@*luddite.ca*) wrote:
: Just a thought: with the impending arrival of the 8-bit internet,
: would it be possible/sensible for someone to design a modem-on-a-card.
: I was thinking that if it's possible (and seemingly worthwhile) to
: plant a laptop HD on a card, then perhaps a laptop modem on a card
: might be the next great Apple II accessory... any takers?

--> Dunno for the `portable' //c; but the 1st modem for my IIe
    was an internal 1200 baud Prometheus modem.  1st one didn't
    work, took it back, tried a 2nd one, it didn't work, either;
    so I went to an external Prometheus ProModem 1200 and it worked
    great and had a wonderful (ProDOS) telecomm package, called
    ProComm (this was, I think, before the PC software one with
    a similar name); that had a fantastic built-in word-processor
    that could output to modem or printer or to file as AWP or TXT.
    Had a stupid idea of a built-in `ruler' that one could save
    with the file or not - but it was poorly explained, poorly
    documented and poorly executed. The package and the modem were
    stand-outs, but that `ruler' thingie was a royal pain and I
    ended-up using ASCII-Express, until ProTERM appeared and blew
    the others all away...

    Well, at least _some_ of this post had something to do with
    internal modems!  By-the by - the internal one was Prometheus.

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