Re: Help with old Mac, dial-up modem and AOL hassles?

[j...@cimmeri.com]

You need a local PC or Mac computer guru to come out and work up a new procedure for you.  If you're a lawyer, you can afford this. - J BigClaim via Vintage Macs wrote: I hope I am on the right board to ask for help I composed this as text message I have been on AOL since geez, years....going back to when? 1996? All that time I have used the modem dial-up way to access AOL Started with version 2.7, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 using the dial up on the Mac (AOL 7 to 9.7 on my PC using broadband) Along the way I also have been accessing AOL on Verizon via broadband which of course, is faster than the dial up but I do all my legal papers on the Mac and have to e mail papers to people and I am block now by some huge SNAFU with AOL For years and years I have used AOL using local phone numbers that is in the AOL system that the modem dials to log on But last week AOL switched out of ALL the west coast dial up numbers THEY DELETED ALL OF THEM and for the entire west coast are offering these numbers 855-564-8026 855-564-8027 My modem (US robotics 56k x2) dials those numbers and you can hear the "fax" tone and the modem TRIES to handshake and log in but it never happens and it gives up You can dial those numbers and you'll hear the "fax tone" with your phone I don't know what is wrong and this is causing me a huge problem cause I can NOT e mail anyone attachments of their legal documents I have called AOL several times and they say there is a problem but they don't fix it I don't know if the problem is AOL or that somehow my US Robotics modem can't deal with communication parameters now that it could before This is OLD stuff people and probably few people are familiar with this old technology. The Mac is a 7300/200 and it doesn't do USB so I can't put the docs on a USB flash drive and move over to the PC and e mail them there The Mac has a floppy drive but the HP Vista Pavilion doesn't have a floppy drive so I can get the docs over to the PC that way So hey - anyone grasp what is going on here and have any advice for me? AGain - I hope I am on the right boards with this issue Thanks for any help MIchael Smith Palm Desert CA _bigclaim@aol.com_ (mailto:bigcl...@aol.com) -- -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to vintage-macs@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs   Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vintage Macs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.