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From: conrad@popvax.uucp (M20400@c.nobili)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Need communication program for IIsi
Summary: Actually, you need a faster modem(s)...
Keywords: communications, IIsi, modem
Message-ID: <7063@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 22 Jun 91 21:33:45 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 ...
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Ummmm....  If you are making long distance calls and downloading files (you had
asked questions about downloading too, not just doing terminal emulation...),
you should __really__ consider getting a faster modem!  If you don't have a
modem at work that goes any faster then maybe you should consider getting _two_
faster modems.  Really, you can get a _pair_ of skanky 2400 bps modems cheaply
these days.  And decent error-correcting and data-compressing 2400 bps modems
aren't too outrageous either.  Check out the ZOOM V.42bis for instance, found
at any fly-by-night mail-order place in the back of MacWEEK....

I bought myself a pair of USRobotics Courier V.32bis (14,400 bps) modems as I
knew setting up my own path into work was the only way it would be done right.
Obviously this is a bit expensive for casual use, but the suggestions in the
previous paragraph should be reasonable.  After all, you were able to afford a
Macintosh rather than some skungy PeeCee clone....  ;-)

I will let others respond to the serial communication program questions.  I use
Farallon PhoneNET Liaison to set up a _network_ connection to my AppleTalk net-
work at work and so have happily forgotten about most _serial_ communication
programs....

>Thanks for any help!

I _hope_ this is helpful...!  (I apologize if it's not....)

>							Sue Bergquist
>							sueb@vice.ico.tek.com
>							Tektronix

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