You wrote:
>The mini-dock has a small round DIN socket, 8-pin, marked as modem port
>with a telephone,
To my knowledge Apple offered the Duo models on the European market with
that DIN-socket for connecting the internal modem (I had a 230 and 2300
equipped that way) and then expected the customer to also buy a
"localized" external adapter (a quite extensive piece) to be able to
connect to the wall socket in the respective country. While you can
always plug in an external modem to the serial (modem/printer) port, the
internal modem connects directly to the logic board (with earlier
OSversions there used to be a special control panel for switching to this
type of connection). Consequently the minidock (I too have one) features
the same DIN-socket for plugging in that adapter.
>On the 280, which contains an Express Modem the
>port is a small square socket which takes a US-style phone plug (?RJ-11).
One might conclude that this Duo comes with a modem card allowing direct
connection to the telephone lead (following the wiring standard of the
Western plug). Have you tried this? As for the dock, it`s "direct" modem
port should then need no additional hardware device for the connection.
Whether you can buy an appropriate adapter cable, I don�t know. At worst
you might try some soldering: get a standard modem cable (serial to
external modem) and a phone cable, slice both open, check the wiring in
your wall socket and detect those four wires that run out from the
US-plug.
Edgar
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