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RE: Apple IIgs modem and s/w

millerto@ava.bcc.orst.edu (Tom Miller) wrote:

>I'm kicking around the idea of buying a modem for someone who has
>an Apple IIgs. Neither the computer nor the operating system has
>been up-graded. It was bought about 8 years ago.
>
>I've talked to three salespeople, two handed me a modem off the
>shelf and said the modem and the communications software would
>work. The third said an external MIGHT work with the proper cable
>but the communications software won't. Which story should I
>believe? Or, more likely, what is the right answer?

The software will not work on a IIgs.  The two salesdroids who said
the software would work probably think the IIgs is a MAC.

An external modem will work.  The only question is whether the cable
will work.  External modems are external modems.  The makers usually
sell them in PC or MAC varieties - same modem but packaged with the
necessary cables and software to work on the respective platforms. 
The cable with the PC version will not work on a IIgs.  The cable on
the MAC versions might work.  For 9600+ speed modems, the Apple IIgs
needs a hi-speed hardware-handshaking modem cable.  Some of the
cables that come with MAC packed modems are correctly wired for the
IIgs; some are not.  Buy it and try it.  If it does not work, order a
correctly wired cable from InTrec or Alltech.

>I suspect that the modem will be used mostly for
>Compuserve/Prodigy/ Internet stuff. Is that going to be a problem?

Well, I do not believe that Prodigy has IIgs software and neither
does AOL, so those two services are out.  CS, GEnie, and Delphi all
are accessible by a IIgs.  As are any Internet Service Providers that
provide dial-up shell accounts (no SLIP/PPP yet for the IIgs).

All that is needed is the modem and a telecommunications program. 
The three main commercial programs are Proterm 3.1, Spectrum 2.0 and
Ansiterm.

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