Re: Modem and Apple IIe

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <20010220232030.04722.00000284@ng-ci1.aol.com>,
KellihanB <kellihanb@aol.comDelete> wrote:
 
> Is there a max modem speed that an Apple IIe can use?
 
It depends on which serial card you use, and it may also depend
on which comm. software you use.
 
> I'm guessing it's probably related to the serial card used, but
> I don't really know much about the serial cards for an Apple IIe
> (just started working with them).  There seem to be two kinds,
> a plain old Apple serial card, and the Super Serial Card II...
> is there a difference between the speeds of modem they can handle?
 
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
The Super Serial Card can be set to any standard speed from 110 bps
to 9600 bps (or perhaps even 19200 bps?  I don't have a SSC so I cannot
check).
 
The older Communications Card had only two different serial speeds.
Right out from the box it could be set to either 110 bps or 300 bps.
Yep, that's it!  Back in 1980 this may have been the "state of the
art", but today it's of course hopelessly slow.  However, the Comm
Card manual described how you could strap that card in order to
boost the serial port speed, to either 300+1200 bps or 1200+4800 bps.
My own Comm. Card has been strapped for 1200+4800 bps for decades now.
 
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