Re: Memory Leak, Sharp Rumours, Modem Question
Anthony J Stieber <starnet!apple!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!anthony>
From: Anthony J Stieber <starnet!apple!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!anthony>
Message-id: <9311100611.AA23594@csd4.csd.uwm.edu>
Subject: Re: Memory Leak, Sharp Rumours, Modem Question
To: zoomer-list-1993@grot.starconn.com
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1993 00:11:57 -0600 (CST)
In-reply-to: <CMM-RU.1.3.752884361.birchall@pilot.njin.net> from "Shag" at Nov 9, 93 04:18:00 pm
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-> From: Shag <birchall@pilot.njin.net>
-> Hayes (Optima), Megahertz, USR, Intel, and Practical Periperals (my favorite)
-> have all introduced PMCIA-2.0 Type II modems and faxmodems, and I've seen
Quite a few companies now make PCMCIA modems. A partial list of
them with contact information including the above
is available via anonymous ftp on the Internet as
csd4.csd.uwm.edu:/pub/Portables/pcmcia.sources. In the same directory
archived newsgroup articles are available as pcmcia.news, PCMCIA card
manufactuters are are in the file pcmcia.devices. These files are also
available via gopher from the same host using the path "UWM
Information/ Computing Services Division/ Csd4 Public FTP Archive/
Portables/".
Note that Type II only refers to card thickness, nothing else. There
is no reason why Type I modems can't exist, and in fact, Xircom and New
Media make some. PCMCIA Release marks the difference between memory
card only devices and I/O devices such as modems, network adapters, and
hard drives.
-> faxmodem)... I know that PPI says theirs will work with "any DOS-compatible
-> system" and I presume the others offer similar compatibility, so is there
Well, maybe. PCMCIA still has some compatibility problems. Unless the
Zoomer automatically senses and configures its PCMCIA interface for a
modem the PCMCIA interface has to be manually configured for a modem.
This may or may not require special setup software and prehaps special
drivers. It's also possible that some PCMCIA modems just won't work
with the Zoomer or other machines.
-> keep thinking AT&T/Paradyne has a PCMCIA _cellular_ modem...
The only difference between a "cellular" modem and an ordinary modem is
that "cellular" modems have error correcting protocols that with the
correct data interface will work well cellular phone links. Such a
modem isn't required. Most modems will work fine with cellular phones
with the correct data interface, albeit, at generally lower speeds. A
cellular phone with an integrated data interface and modem is called a
"cellular phone with integrated data interface and modem". There are
only a few of these expensive devices on the market, the smallest, a
handheld, came out only recently.
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