Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!wilmott
From: wilmott@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ray Wilmott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Modem communications on an 800
Keywords: 800 VT100
Message-ID: <18002@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Date: 12 Feb 88 04:38:15 GMT
References: <6548@sol.ARPA> <377@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> <6836@oberon.USC.EDU>
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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Yes, the SX212 is definitely not VaporWare.....I just got one today
and am typing this message via it and Chameleon. It's your standard
Hayes-type modem, but at a much nicer price than most - I got it for
$87 from Computer Mail Order (1-800-233-8950). Be forwarned though...
although you *can* just plug it right into your 8-bit via the SIO
port, finding software to work that way is *extremely* difficult at
this point in time. My advice therefore would be to do what I did -
order a PR Connection while your at it for $59, and a RS232 cable
(25 pin male D-sub to 9 pin male D-sub) for $12. Then you'll be
able to use a wide range of software...Express (my favorite for Atari
BBS's), VT100, Amodem, Chameleon (works great with my schools Unix 
system), and more.



		-Ray

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