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From: t-jacobs@cs.utah.edu (Tony Jacobs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: internal modems/faxmodems; "line manager"
Keywords: slot
Message-ID: <1989Nov19.233418.15096@hellgate.utah.edu>
Date: 20 Nov 89 06:34:18 GMT
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In article <4147@ur-cc.UUCP> carlo@cvs.rochester.edu (Carlo Tiana) writes:
>
>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?


No. The Portable has a special internal port just for a modem card.

>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.

I don't have the ad in front of me at the moment, but that is not the impress-
ion I got at all. I took it that the manager could tell which kind of call
was comming in and route it to the modem, the fax, or the phone. One at a
time though.

Tony Jacobs * Center for Engineering Design * U of U * t-jacobs@ced.utah.edu