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From: carlo@eagle.cvs.rochester.edu (Carlo Tiana)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: internal modems/faxmodems; "line manager"
Keywords: slot
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Date: 19 Nov 89 04:07:22 GMT
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Does an "internal" modem take up a slot? Or is it just plugged into the
serial port that's devoted to the modem, at the back of the Mac? If it does
not, why does LaCie (MacWorld, December, p. 10) talk about an internal
faxmodem for the MacPortable: would this not fit in *any* Mac, if it does
in the portable?

While on the subject of LaCie: what does the phone line manager they
advertise (same ad) do? I understand you can be faxing, transferring data
and talking on your phone, all at the same time, through some sort of
multiplexing -- am I right? If so, what sort of voice quality do you get
and what sort of decrease in baud rates do you suffer? It's bad enough to
be on a multiplexed transatlantic phone call, that I don't think I would
want all my calls to sound like that!

Carlo.




carlo@cvs.rochester.edu