I've seen a lot of modems on the pc side of things, but I've never seen an
external modem that connects to the parallel port. You may have seen one
that was connected to the DB 25 pin serial port connector on a pc which can
easily be confused with the parallel port.
And basically what everyone else has been saying is true. Virtually all
external modems will work with a Mac just fine, although you may not have
support for fax or voice features. Call me biased, but I've never had a
problem running US Robotics externals on Macs.
John
At 08:16 AM 8/7/01 -0700, you wrote:
>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.
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