Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!cmcl2!ccnysci!alexis From: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Internal modem for Mac II Message-ID: <1782@ccnysci.UUCP> Date: 28 Apr 89 06:44:51 GMT References: Reply-To: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen) Organization: City College of New York Lines: 35 In article cb2o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Charles Edward Batey, Jr.) writes: >Does anybody out there know if any internal modems exist for the Mac II? >If not, how about some recommendations on 2400 baud or greater external >modems? Well, here's one recommendation: DON'T GET INTERNAL MAC MODEMS. They're ridiculously overpriced, and until the Comm Manager shows its long-overdue head there may yet be compatability problems with the more obscure apps that use modems. They cost $400-$600, and they give you nothing you can't get from a decent CMOS Hayes clone, many of which can be found for $100-$120 in the back pages of various PC weeklies. The other problem is, what do you do when you want to get a V.32 and resell it? Nobody's going to want it, for all the reasons I listed. Modems are the only devices that can (potentially) work equally well on PCs and Macs just by plugging them in. Thus we pay much less than if there had to be specifically-designed "MacModems". Don't throw away that advantage. That said, there are three or four modem boards I know of: Epic Technologies Hayes MicroCom (?) Prometheus There may be others. I don't know if all of these are shipping. --- Alexis Rosen alexis@ccnysci.{uucp,bitnet} alexis@rascal.ics.utexas.edu (last resort)