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From: cs352a41@cs.iastate.edu (Adam Goldberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Antique Apple modem -- HELP!!
Keywords: no doc came with borrowed modem
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Date: 12 Apr 91 15:31:50 GMT
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gray@s5000.rsvl.unisys.com (Bill Gray x2128) writes:

>I have a borrowed Apple modem and a copy of Red Ryder.  I have no
>doc for either of them. . .  I used the hayes compatible dial command
>shown in the online instructions, but nothing happens on the phone line.

>I know the phone line is ok.  I know nothing about the modem except the 
>following copied from the back of it:

>Model A9M0301
>SN MA 048239
>P/N 825-0621-B
>             8 ?? not sure of last character
>FCC ID BCG 794 Modem 1200

>I need to know the command set this critter recognizes and its
>specifications--for example, is it a 1200 or a 300 baud modem?  Also, there
>are three bitty little switches by one of the cables whose function is
>unknown.

Lots of Apple modems were NOT HAYES COMPATIBLE.  They took special dial
commands, does Red Ryder have a 'dial' command?  If not, try to get an
old copy of ASCII EXPRESS.

Chances are it's not 1200 baud...I once bought a 1200 baud modem for my
old Apple...it cost me close to $500.

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