On 13/12/01 10:43, "Eric L. Strobel" <fyzycyst_at_home.com> wrote:
> at the temporal coordinates: 12/13/01 10:17 AM, the entity known as Ben
> Smith (QM Systems) at ben.smith_at_qm-systems.com conveyed the following:
>
>> Sorry, I could not remember which Macs used S/W modems, but it proves
>> my point - Apple used software modems long before the dreaded
>> 'Winmodem'.
>
> Not being a Windoze user, I know nothing about this Winmodem thing. But...
> The Geoport s/w always worked like a charm for me on my 660av. The only
> reason I stopped using it was that Apple stopped development when the
> capability was only at 28.8 speed.
>
> What I wonder is, do the current crop of modems in Macs allow telephony in
> addition to fax & data?? That was always one of the neat things, the free
> version of Megaphone.
No telephony, only fax and data.
-Laurent.
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