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- From: Rigor@clever.net (Matt Fox)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: USR 28.8 Sportster "Mac and Fax". I'm confused!
- Date: 11 Jan 1996 16:41:25 GMT
- Organization: Best Internet Communications
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- In article <4d3bpq$gop@harbard.cs.cornell.edu>, maffeis@cs.cornell.edu
- says...
- >
- >Hi!
- >
- >Companies like MacMall sell a version of the USR 28.8 Sportster
- >that carries the label "Mac and Fax" on its case. Is the hardware or
- firmware
- >different from the "plain" 28.8 Sportster? I.e., can I use the "Mac
- and Fax"
- >Sportster with a Windows box, and the plain Sportster with a Mac?
- >
-
- the modems are indentical except for:
-
- the mac version comes with pin #1 in the opposite position vs the
- regular model , this is to enable forced dtr on the mac
-
- the mac version comes with a mac serial cable and mac comm software
- other then that there is no difference
-
-
-
- >Thanks!
- >silvano
- >
- >--
- >Silvano Maffeis, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University
- >4130 Upson Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853. email: maffeis@acm.org
- >office: (607) 255-9205, home: (607) 277-9685, fax: (607) 255-4428
- >www: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/maffeis
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