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- From: karches@utdallas.edu (Tom Karches)
- Subject: Re: PB100: Just Say NO?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.045334.16579@utdallas.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 04:53:34 GMT
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- In article <17mi00INNcie@agate.berkeley.edu> luigi@paris.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Luigi Semenzato) writes:
- >I need a laptop for four things:
- >
- > 1. take around and do basic text editing;
- > 2. send and receive fax;
- > 3. use as a terminal at home, with a 9600 baud modem;
- > 4. run MIDI software.
- >
- >The PB100 would be just perfect, but what is this I hear about
- >problems with the serial port? Does it mean I can't use it for
- >2, 3, and 4? How could Apple bungle so badly? Thanks --Luigi
-
- Most of the problems are fixed by the PowerBook Tuner, a small
- extension currently only shipped with Global Village modems.
-
- Some of the MIDI problems are fixed by the Tuner, the rest can be
- addressed by the MIDI software package vendor.
-
- This is my own understanding compiled from various sources.
-
- Regards,
- Tom Karches
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- Tom Karches |"If rap music had been around when I was a kid,
- karches@utdallas.edu | I would have become a musician instead of a politician."
- karches@holonet.net '-------------------------------------- Richard Nixon
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