Re: Help with Apple IIc+ and ProTerm on BBS

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shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford) wrote:
>Tilghman Lesher wrote:
>>QuickPort II.  Yoshi.  Digital Exodus.  Faster port speeds.
>
>I used Proterm and tried the port at 57600 and at 38400. The modem
>wouldn't stay connected with the port speed higher than 19200. Granted, I
>didn't try very hard to figure out why, since I never planned to use the
>V.everything on the IIgs. It was only recently that I decided to pull the
>Linelink out of the closet and put in on the IIgs in place of the Courier
>2400e I had had on there. I can't imagine making use of 14400 on a IIgs
>anyway.

Tip: Just because you don't use your IIgs to its full potential, it
     does not follow that everyone else has packed up and gone Mac.

There are many of us who use the IIgs for telecommunications and we
want the maximum speed.  Now, granted, if you don't have a hardware
handshaking cable, you may have problems.  You might also need an
accelerator card to make good on the connect speed (even on a stock
IIgs, however, the modem will connect at top speed with the proper
cable...just might use the flow control more).

I suspect your problem is that you are running ProTERM by launching
from the Finder?  If you have any DA/extension installed that eats
up precious interrupt time, ProTERM will choke at higher speeds.  The
solution is to bypass GS/OS completely, booting up directly to
ProDOS 8 (by pressing the '8' key during boot-up).  Try it - the extra
speed of a higher speed connect is awesome.  It will make 14.4 seem
like 2400 (although you mainly notice it in file transfers).  Even
on a 14.4, you should have a port speed of at least 38400 to make
error correction and data compression work properly.

Randy, incidentally, this problem also crops up on Macintosh
computers.  Running a terminal program (White Knight or Zterm, I
forget which one...it was several years ago), the Mac would choke
on a high speed connection.  I could not figure out why, until I
removed a clock extension!  That one change made the difference
between successful high speed modeming and not.  You see, I
am NOT a Mac hater...I've used Macintosh, Amiga, PC, and IIgs
computers.  It is just that I'm not as big a Mac advocate as you. :)
Now the Apple IIgs is something that I will support till the end!
The IIgs was and still is my primary computer for wp and modeming
(although the little '486 sits quietly until Netscape is needed).

-Scott G.