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> From: PCI PowerMacs
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> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 4:16 PM
> To: PCI PowerMacs
> Subject: Re: External Modem
>
>
> on 8/7/01 7:45 AM, Joe Hermosa at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I have been told that certain 56K external modems made
> for PC's will work with
> > my Mac. Is anybody familiar with this?
>
> Joe,
>
> My understanding is that any external modem will work with
> your Mac as long
> as you can connect it to your serial port (either modem or
> printer port).
> All the PC external modems I've seen connect to a parallel
> port, so you need
> a cable that connects from the parallel port to the Mac
> serial port. These
> are relatively common and inexpensive, and in my experience
> work just fine,
> though I haven't tried them with a 56K modem.
>
> tafkar
>
Things must be somewhat different on your side of the water, I am not
familiar with any modems that use the parallel port on a PC, also if
they did then it would be virtually impossible to drive them from a
Mac.
That aside, as Tafkar states, virtually any external modem will work
on a Mac, you will however need to get either a Mac serial cable for
the modem or a serial adapter to convert the round 8 pin port to a PC
style 9 pin 'D' connector,
'generic' Hayes compatible drivers will work with almost any external
modem, however it is worth looking on the web site of your chosen
brand to see if they have written Mac specific drivers / utils.
Ben.
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