Brandy Said-
>Paul
>I am so sorry for your troubles getting online seems alot of people are in
>the same boat. My mistake is that I forget not everyone works with
>computers, runs networks or has the type of job I have. For me.... It's so
>easy I don't have to think about what I am doing.
>Brandy
>
>>
>> Took me days of asking questions to the "experts" and getting mostly
>> unintelligible computese answers to my questions about the complications
>> involving the shared printer/modem port of the Duo and 500 series
>computers.
>> Finally after hours of painstaking trial and error I got my my 280c
>working
>> on the net via it's factory installed Apple Express Modem. Later through
>> more trial and error I learned how to use an external modem.
>>
>> Paul Cherubini
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>
FWIW, I work with Macs all the time, and I had a *major* fistfight getting
a reformatted 500 series powerbook to use it's internal modem.
The problem with the modem was that the Global Village Powerport software
isn't freely available and the %&*# Boca/GV website doesn't make it at all
clear that you actually need to buy it (again).
To make things more confusing, the GV website freely distributes another
modem software (Teleport) that might seem like it should work with this
powerbook, but it doesn't.
I finally found out that I needed to buy the special PowerPort software for
this model by digging deeply into Apple's TIL.
Fortunately, the client had the original install disks for the software at
his home.
There are so many different models and so much different software and it's
hard sometimes to know all of the subtleties, even if you call yourself a
pro.
cheers-
Larry
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