NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #16/NN_1992_16.iso/spool/comp/sys/tandy/1242

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Subject: Tandy 600 help
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Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 17:29:13 GMT
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I have some questions (on behalf of my sister-in-law; I'm a Mac type
myself.)  She has a Tandy 600 laptop, about 7 years old, and would like
to use it with a modem. It seems to have an onboard 300baud modem, which
uses an acoustic coupler, and an RS232 port in back which I presume could
be hooked up to a faster external modem.  Is this correct?  Would your average
back of the magazine-type modem work with her computer?  There's also a
question of software; her computer has a very minimal operating system,
in which the operation of the modem is done from within the word processor.
I tired unsuccesfully to get the computer to drive a borrowed 1200 baud
modem; the most common error message was something along the lines of
"communications error".

Any advice or pointers would be greatly appreciated.  One last point I
forgot is that this is taking place in Paris--could this perhaps affect
the way the communications software interacts with the telephone.
Thanks--Daniel Ruberman
([e-mail], [e-mail])