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    I am posting for a colleague who has a NeXT computer,
but isn't able to post.

    He has a NeXT computer that he bought from someone.
He doesn't know a lot about Unix or computers.  The
computer has revision 3.0 of the operating system.

    His problem: he would like to connect to the NYU
computer system via modem, but he doesn't know what
is involved.  He says he tried to connect a Hayes
1200 baud modem to the serial port, but the system
somehow couldn't find the modem.  The NeXT documentation
is apparently pretty limited on the subject.

    So, two questions:

(1) can any standard modem (i.e., PC-compatible)
    be used on a NeXT computer?

(2) what hardware and software work needs to be
    done to allow him to actually use the computer?
    He mainly wants to read E-mail from home, but
    I suppose eventually he will want to do the
    same things that most PC users want to do:
    upload & download files, etc.

(By the way, I have been looking through the Sun
documentation, and find that I have no idea how
I would connect and use a modem on my SPARCstation,
either.)


    I suspect that this is a question from the FAQ,
only I haven't found the FAQ yet.  So please send
E-mail info to: mckenney@cims.nyu.edu.  If there
is interest, I will summarize for the net.
(Also tell me which newsgroup is more appropriate
for this question.)


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