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From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David A. Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: APPLETALK AND MODEM PORT
Message-ID: <42934@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 13 Jul 90 18:21:16 GMT
References: <9007091651.AA03831@apple.com>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <9007091651.AA03831@apple.com> SOMCYC@NUSVM.BITNET (Chiang Yao Chye) writes:
>
>Can anyone who knows the answer please enlighten me:
>
>Why is it that on the IIGS, you cannot have the modem port and AppleTalk both
>active at the same time?
>
>Thanks.

What?  You can.  Just plug LocalTalk into the Printer port.

What happens for you?  I don't usually use my GS here at work for
telcom work, but I *have* tried it, and I was on a LocalTalk network,
and I don't even remember losing any characters.  (It's possible there
was little LocalTalk activity in my zone at the time, since many of
the machines in this zone are Macintoshes running EtherTalk instead of
LocalTalk.)

(Why can't you have LocalTalk, the modem port, *and* the printer port
ALL at the same time?  Because LocalTalk plugs into one of the serial
ports.)
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