Article:		Using PC Peripherals on the Mac
Subject:		serial modem?
Date:		2002-09-13 18:17:57
From:		anonymous2
You mention that "getting the printer and modem connected is not easy, unless you use special adapters." Just out of curiosity, is there a reason that you're not using the eMac's built-in modem?

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• serial modem?
  2002-09-13 20:35:01  Wei-Meng Lee | [View]
  
  
  Yes, I am using the built-in modem. Just thought that for those Mac users that does not have a built-in modem, it might be a good idea to use the PC modem. Anyway, the adapters are pretty cheap and I believe it is not difficult to get them to work on the Mac. :-)
• serial modem?
  2002-09-13 22:33:03  dhovis [View]
  
  
  You'll have a really hard time buying a Mac without a modem. Education customers can order a modem-free bare bones eMac, and the PowerMac can be BTOed without a modem. The XServe doesn't have a modem, but that would be silly, now wouldn't it.
  
  The only way you are likely to buy a modem-free new Mac is if you really want don't want a modem, so reusing a PC modem is really a non issue.
• serial modem?
  2002-09-14 11:21:58  Brian Jepson | [View]
  
  
  I used to have an external CDPD modem, and around the time I started switching, I wondered if I could get my Mac to talk to it. I wrote an article (http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/788) about getting my Palm III to talk to it, so in theory, I could have gotten it to work with my Mac. But, I decided that a new equipment purchase should be followed by cost-cutting measures :-) so I cancelled the service (it was $40 a month).
  
  Not counting CDPD modems for PDAs, all the other CDPD modems I've seen are PCMCIA, and my iBook doesn't have PCMCIA. So, if I had decided to keep the wireless service, I would have needed one of those USB-to-serial adapters.
  
  I could probably find a pile of serial devices kicking around my office that I'd like to have my Mac talk to (older Unix workstation serial consoles, random ancient PDAs, etc).
  
  - Brian