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- From: ctt31684@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Ching Tai)
- Subject: Re: Mac modems vs PC modems??
- References: <1992Jul22.204426.12818@IRO.UMontreal.CA> <l6s0rbINNhm4@news.bbn.com>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 09:11:54 GMT
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- saustin@bbn.com (Steve Austin) writes:
- >laviers@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Cocotte Minute) writes:
- >-> I am looking to buy an external V32bis fax/modem.
- >->I got a great price for a USR sportster (409$CDN).
-
- >->The thing is... the salescritter told me that if I buy one
- >->for my PC, it won't work on a mac.
-
- >->I suppose (he didn't tell me this- he didn't seem to know that much)
- >->that it's because of the difference between the two type of serial ports
- >->(422 on the mac and RS232 on PCs).
-
- >I have used a Zoom 14.4 modem on both a Mac, PC and SGI. The only thing
- >that I had to do for the Mac and SGI Indigo was to get a cable that
- >could handle the baud rate. I got one from EggHead.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- 57.6k is not that fast, I'm using a real thin cable right now and
- the cable is about 13' long. So, I don't think the problem is w/ the cable.
-
- (I don't have an Indigo, but I have a Personal Iris; so this applies
- to the Personal Iris/25TG). The iris uses a 9-pin serial port, but the wiring
- is DIFFERENT than the pc's 9 pin serial port, so a normal "pc" modem cable
- won't work.
-
- > Steve
-
- -Ching
-
-