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In article <QYHtgay00WB48Wl1p9@andrew.cmu.edu> cb2o+@andrew.cmu.edu
(Charles Edward Batey, Jr.) writes:
>Does anybody out there know if any internal modems exist for the Mac II?
>If not, how about some recommendations on 2400 baud or greater external
>modems?

Well, here's one recommendation:

DON'T GET INTERNAL MAC MODEMS.

They're ridiculously overpriced, and until the Comm Manager shows its
long-overdue head there may yet be compatability problems with the more
obscure apps that use modems. They cost $400-$600, and they give you
nothing you can't get from a decent CMOS Hayes clone, many of which can
be found for $100-$120 in the back pages of various PC weeklies. The
other problem is, what do you do when you want to get a V.32 and resell
it? Nobody's going to want it, for all the reasons I listed.

Modems are the only devices that can (potentially) work equally well on
PCs and Macs just by plugging them in. Thus we pay much less than if
there had to be specifically-designed "MacModems". Don't throw away that
advantage.

That said, there are three or four modem boards I know of:
Epic Technologies
Hayes
MicroCom (?)
Prometheus

There may be others. I don't know if all of these are shipping.

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Alexis Rosen
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