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From: cjeff@silver.lcs.mit.edu (Carl J.M. Alexander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Need communication program for IIsi
Keywords: communications, IIsi, modem
Message-ID: <1991Jun21.192722.3338@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 21 Jun 91 19:27:22 GMT
References: <7648@vice.ICO.TEK.COM>
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In article <7648@vice.ICO.TEK.COM> sueb@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Sue Bergquist) writes:
>
>I'm trying to use my Macintosh to talk to the UNIX vax at work.  (A long-
>distance call, so experimentation is expensive....)
>
>My setup:
>	IIsi 2/40, System 6.0.7
>	Apple 1200 model (with a custom-built cable, since the local dealer
>			       wasn't able to supple one)
>
>
>1)  I have Works, which comes with a communcations program.  I configured it
 
The Works comm module is known junk--I mean, not just because it's from
Microsoft: it's junk even by their standards.  Try Zterm.  It's shareware
($35) available from most user groups, sumex, mac bulletin boards, etc.
The current version is 0.85; a new version is supposed to be coming out
any time now, but 0.85 works fine with System 7, at least in 24 bit mode.
The modem may be part of your problem as well--I've never used the Apple
1200, but I've heard quite a few complaints about it. 
 
I doubt that the fact you're using an si has anything to do with anything;
much more likely your problems are related to system software/application
incompatibilities that didn't show up under whatever system you were running
on your 512.

>Thanks for any help!
>
>							Sue Bergquist
>							sueb@vice.ico.tek.com
>							Tektronix
You're welcome,
 
--Carl Alexander                  |           BCS*Mac 
News Editor, The Active Window    |  The Boston Computer Society 
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