Re: IIGS modem port

[unknown@apple.com (Matt Ackeret)]

In article <SKNKWRKS.93Apr14183342@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu> sknkwrks@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter) writes:
>Just go to your local computer store and pick up a modem cable for a
>Mac...the serial ports on the GS are almost identical to the serial
>ports on a Mac, and they take the same cables.

True for modems under 9600 bps, but for 9600 and higher you should get
a hardware handshaking cable.  When I was trying to get a HW HS cable, I 
went into some Mac stores and they didn't have the foggiest idea what I was
talking about.

Eventually I just bought a cable from InTrec (publishers of ProTERM, formerly
called InSync)..  Also, the ProTERM 3.0 manual has pinouts for hardware 
handshaking for all computers ProTERM runs on. (Apparently the //c one is
pseudo-hardware handshaking)

>ProTERM is, IMHO, the best comm program currently available for the
>II...

I personally think it's the best on any computer, though I haven't taken a look
at any IBM term programs in a few years.  Definitely better than the Mac term
programs around.

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