Re: GS modem port speeds

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Willie Yeo (yeo@pigeon.qut.edu.au) wrote:
: Bill Misek (misek@execpc.com) wrote:

: : I've read a few places that the gs can connect up to 57600, but my
: : control panel port speed only goes up to 19200. Am I missing
: : something?

: 	Yup. Those printer/modem ports on the GS can go up to 57,600. 
: Then, most devices are running 9600 modems and printers, so they did not 
: bother to built the numbers for e.g. 14,400 or 28,800 or 33,600. No one 
: will know what speeds back then to put (can't see the future).

: 	The only thing I know of 57,600 was the printer, and AppleTalk.

I believe AppleTalk has a native speed of 230K.

I recently tranferred some data between my two IIGS's using a null modem
at 57.6K.  If you've not ever done this, it flies like you wouldn't believe!

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