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From: c60c-3aw@web-2d.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Looking for communication sw for 212 modem
Summary: use whatever
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Date: 16 Sep 88 19:20:32 GMT
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In article <1194@cbnews.ATT.COM> jmb@cbnews.ATT.COM (James M. Brohard) writes:
>
>I have a Bell 212 compatible modem that I would like to use
>with my Apple II GS.  I have seen lots of programs that claim
>to be "fully Hayes compatible".  Will they work with a dumb 212
>modem?  This modem has no autodialling capabilities - you must
>connect a telephone set to it.

I spent last semester using an Anderson-Jacobsen modem that used some Racal-
Vadic protocol for 1200 baud (but Bell for 300).  Cost $30.  Not a bad way to
enter into the communications world (thanks to UCB's Vadic line...)

I was using ProTERM with the modem specified as "Null Modem Driver."  I also
was able to successfully use Z-Link and Talk is Cheap (make sure to turn the
DSR/DTR handshake in the control panel off for the latter, tho; it had some
problems).

The bottom line is: there's a lot of good software that doesn't care WHAT
kind of modem you have, and the ones that do generally accept the fact that
you may want to just plug two computers together.

>Thanks for any help.
>jim brohard

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