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| Click here to select a new forum. | | Eric's conquests | Posted by: Scott Baret on 2020-10-05 05:55:05
Yes, those are Mac monitors. The easy way to tell a IIGS monitor is the power light. On a Mac, it's a rectangle. On a IIGS, it's a parallelogram, with the short sides parallel to the top and bottom of the display.
| Posted by: Crutch on 2020-10-05 05:58:21
Yes, those are Mac monitors. The easy way to tell a IIGS monitor is the power light. On a Mac, it's a rectangle. On a IIGS, it's a parallelogram, with the short sides parallel to the top and bottom of the display. That’s amazing. I have somehow known that my whole life without knowing I knew it. Thanks for pointing it out.
| Posted by: Cory5412 on 2020-10-05 06:59:29
It's an RJ-11 port though - just plugged it into my MacBook Pro and it identifies as an Apple USB Modem - just seems an odd thing. Must have came with a laptop he got and just through it in the drawer.
Yeah, it was sold as an add-on either very very early in the Intel era or very very late in the PPC era after Apple dropped 56k modems from Macs. It could be fun for stuff like faxing, depending on how late it was supported in the OS, and if you have a compatible phone line or ATA + voip service.
| Posted by: quorten on 2020-10-05 07:03:38
Yeah, pretty much I was going to write ^ what Cory said. You could have a more modern computer be a mini-ISP that connects vintage computers to period-accurate dialup modems on a local network.
| Posted by: Cory5412 on 2020-10-05 08:36:44
Hmmmm..... I've been meaning to look into that kind of stuff. The machine currently running vtools, a QS'02, has a modem, and I have a small PBX with some analog lines, and I've thought it would be fun to do whatever low end version of Apple Remote Access was bundled.
A friend wrote some notes about doing this using an older version of Windows: Setting up a Dialup Server in 2020 | Gekk .
| Posted by: Daniël on 2020-10-05 17:31:02
Hmmmm..... I've been meaning to look into that kind of stuff. The machine currently running vtools, a QS'02, has a modem, and I have a small PBX with some analog lines, and I've thought it would be fun to do whatever low end version of Apple Remote Access was bundled.
A friend wrote some notes about doing this using an older version of Windows: Setting up a Dialup Server in 2020 | Gekk . I have done it before on a Quicksilver, though running on a Linux server install with mgetty:
| Posted by: Cory5412 on 2020-10-06 01:27:12
That's excellent. I'm extremely tempted, but also most of the macs I have with modems also just have Ethernet. It would be some extremely high end nostalgia to dial in from an iMac, though.
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