Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!genbank!bionet!ames!lll-lcc!unisoft!mtxinu!ucbvax!VM1.NODAK.EDU!UD161872 From: UD161872@VM1.NODAK.EDU (Joe Carlin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Modem Deals Message-ID: <8911050247.ab05848@SMOOE.BVL.MIL> Date: 5 Nov 89 07:37:10 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 18 One note should be added to people not familiar with external modems. If you have a GS, go external. All you have to buy extra is the cable (which is anywhere from $9.95 to $25, but the $20 are usually excellent quality and most sufficient), and if your term program locks on you, or if you want to switch while online, it's a ton easier with e|ternal than internal. In fact, I've reset the RAM disk on my Apple IIGS while online, then go back to ProTERM and the remote system didn't know anything happened (sans the short period it took to reformat the RAM disk), but that requires a open-apple-option-control-reset, which clears almost anything important in memory, turns every slot on and off and all that good stuff, but my external stmll stayed online. You can reboot, quit a program, and if the software shuts slot 2 (or whatever slot your modem is in) off, an internal would disconnect, so that's one thing even I didn't know until I bought my external. Also, external modems$are$almost always supported witl GS freeware, which is rare with internals. Joe Carlin "FREE SOUTH AFRICA"