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- From: mckenney@cims.nyu.edu (Alan M. McKenney)
- Subject: Trying to connect a modem
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- Organization: Courant Institute, New York University
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 20:31:21 GMT
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- I am posting for a colleague who has a NeXT computer,
- but isn't able to post.
-
- He has a NeXT computer that he bought from someone.
- He doesn't know a lot about Unix or computers. The
- computer has revision 3.0 of the operating system.
-
- His problem: he would like to connect to the NYU
- computer system via modem, but he doesn't know what
- is involved. He says he tried to connect a Hayes
- 1200 baud modem to the serial port, but the system
- somehow couldn't find the modem. The NeXT documentation
- is apparently pretty limited on the subject.
-
- So, two questions:
-
- (1) can any standard modem (i.e., PC-compatible)
- be used on a NeXT computer?
-
- (2) what hardware and software work needs to be
- done to allow him to actually use the computer?
- He mainly wants to read E-mail from home, but
- I suppose eventually he will want to do the
- same things that most PC users want to do:
- upload & download files, etc.
-
- (By the way, I have been looking through the Sun
- documentation, and find that I have no idea how
- I would connect and use a modem on my SPARCstation,
- either.)
-
-
- I suspect that this is a question from the FAQ,
- only I haven't found the FAQ yet. So please send
- E-mail info to: mckenney@cims.nyu.edu. If there
- is interest, I will summarize for the net.
- (Also tell me which newsgroup is more appropriate
- for this question.)
-
-
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