Re: Global Village 14.4 Teleport Gold II and the IIgs

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Mark Piazza (piazza@servtech.com) wrote:
: I have a Global Village 14.4 modem (Teleport Gold II).  The manual says it
: will work on any Macintosh, the bottom of the modem says it's for Performas,
: and I can't plug it into any Mac but a Power Mac and compatibles.
: The mini-din connector has one more pin than the 8pin port on Macs and the
: iigs.
: Also, there is a keyed piece of mettle preventing the plug from going into
: the port, unlike the one that most cables for the modem port has.

Hope you didn't pay much for it. The extra pin and keyed connector mean that
it only works with a geoport type serial port, and that only exists on AVs
and Powermacs. If it's like Apple's geoport adaptor, it isn't a modem per se;
the DSP in AVs or the PowerPC itself in Pmacs does the real work and the 
geoport is just a way to connect the phone line to it. Apple only supports 
14400 with AVs using a geoport for some stupid reason while it'll do 33600 
on a Pmac. They're just lazy and won't release 33600 software for the AVs.

: Is there any way to modify the modem?
: I have traced the mystery pin inside the modem to a transistor and from
: there to a pad where a power plug should be, (let me mention that there is
: no power plug or on/off switch).

I'm afraid you're totally out of luck using this with a non geoport equipped
box.
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