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Re: Terminal Emulation



In article <46m7g4$54k@acme.freenet.columbus.oh.us>,
Mike LaMorte <mlamorte@freenet.columbus.oh.us> wrote:
>Joshua P. Onge (jponge@mtu.edu) wrote:
><snip>
>: Hi all,
>
>: OK, Here's what I wanna do.  I have a IIc at Home, and a Unix account on a
>: Sun at school.  I want to use the IIc to dial in to the sun for simple
>: text based computing.  I have two questions: 

>: 1) Since all I'm going to be doing is transferring text data, do I need a
>: very fast modem.  Am I going to see a substantial difference between say a
>: 300 baud modem and a 14,400 baud modem.  Can a IIc even handle a 14,400 or
>: a 9,600 baud connection?

Jumping in where I have little experience, however, I seem to remember
that the original //c had a mother board problem with speeds greater
than 1200 (2400??) and had to have a FREE mother board swap at their
friendly Apple dealer. Is this offer still good? Is it needed in this
case?

Kind Regards,
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