From: sietze@tardis.et.tudelft.nl (Sietze Schukking)
Subject: SUMMARY: Mac Faxmodems
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 09:35:13 GMT

Hello again,

About a week ago I posted the following message:

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Hello folks,

Presently i am using a borrowed faxmodem and software from 'Lightspeed' on
my mac. The problem is it is very unreliable ( 1 out of 4 transmitions or
receptions fail ), its ugly in its handling ( its a straight PC port ) and
it won't work with Sys7.

Its positive points are: it can send and receive faxes and you can configure
the mac to which the modem is connected as a fax server on an apple talk net-
work. And it operates in the background.

So what i am looking for is a 9600 fax-modem with send and receive capabilities
Further i need a decent MAC program to operate the fax-modem, i also want to
be able to configure it as a network server and i want to be able to use it
with other programs, that is i want a printerdriver for the fax-modem so i
can print to it.

So my questions are:

  -Do you always need a specific combination of fax-modem of brand X and
   fax-program of the same brand X, or is there some standard?

  -Do you know a reliable fax-modem with send and receive capabilities?

  -Do you know a decent MAC program to operate it as above explained?


Please mail or post your answers, i will summarize if requested.

Thank you 
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On which I got a couple of replies, which will follow below:

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From baltman@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu Fri Aug 28 20:08:16 1992
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From: Brian Altman <baltman@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu>
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To: sietze@tardis.et.tudelft.nl
Subject: Re: Mac Fax-modem
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.dcom.fax
Organization: University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)
Status: OR

I'm using a Prometheus Ultima Home Office, a 14.4k modem with
voice-mail and 9600 send/recieve (type II and III-don't quote me)
fax. It also operates as its own line switcher (as long as its little app
is running, otherwise it just assumes fax only. Can be had for under
$500 now...I think it can run in the background, but I haven't ever
used the option so I can't be sure. When taking a call it _does_ take
over the mac for a second (which can really screw-up a game ;)) The software
it comes with is decent and to my knowledge I've never had a fax send/receive
error. A 2400 baud modem with 9600 fax send/receive can be had from 
Prometheus for less if that'll do ya. 

Facts stated above and facts in the real world may vary. Most should be
simmilar.

-Brian

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From scouten@research-163.stu.umn.edu Sat Aug 29 05:00:10 1992
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To: sietze@tardis.et.tudelft.nl (Sietze Schukking)
From: scouten@research-163.stu.umn.edu (Eric Scouten)
Subject: Re: Mac Fax-modem
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 02:24:04 GMT
Cc: scouten@research-163.stu.umn.edu
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Status: OR

In article <1992Aug28.152213.2824@donau.et.tudelft.nl> you write:
>So what i am looking for is a 9600 fax-modem with send and receive 
>capabilities
>[...]
>So my questions are:
>
>  -Do you always need a specific combination of fax-modem of brand X and
>   fax-program of the same brand X, or is there some standard?
>
>  -Do you know a reliable fax-modem with send and receive capabilities?
>
>  -Do you know a decent MAC program to operate it as above explained?
>
>
>Please mail or post your answers, i will summarize if requested.

I've heard good things about the Supra Fax Modem (at 9600 or 14400 speeds) 
and about the software 'FAXstf'. Based on the recommendations I've received 
from other folks here at the University of Minnesota, I might well be buying 
one within the next week.

I'm curious what other people have had to say about modems. Would you please 
bounce an e-mail summary to me?

Thanks

-Eric

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From folta@cs.umd.edu Sat Aug 29 19:49:14 1992
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From: folta@cs.umd.edu (Wayne Folta)
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To: sietze@tardis.et.tudelft.nl
Subject: Re: Mac Fax-modem
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
Status: OR

I believe that most Mac FAX modem software provide a Chooser printer driver.
I use the Prometheus Home Office Ultima: V.32b, V.42, V.42b, 9600 send/receive
FAX. It comes with an Extension, which can be set to auto send/receive FAXs.
Also a Chooser printer driver, and you can also set it so that there is a
"Fax" addition in the menu bar. This allows you to print to FAX without
going to the Chooser to change printers, then change printers back. Very
reliable in my experience.

The Extension is also smart enough to yield control of the serial port when
another program opens it. Thus, I can have the Extension in auto-answer mode
and still dial up my school mainframe without disabling FAX receive. When I
quit my terminal program, the Extension grabs back the serial port and watches
for incoming FAXs again.

The Home Ultima also does voice mail. You need to be running its application
(in the background, if you want) and it is not totally non-intrusive as is the
FAX features. The FAX application, MaxFAX, is easy to use and flexible, allowing
logging of calls, sorting of FAXs/voice, creation of FAX lists and cover
sheets, etc..

No network abilities, though. (At least not directly... I don't know what
would happen if you used System 7's file sharing ability to stick files in
its queue...)
-- 


Wayne Folta          (folta@cs.umd.edu  128.8.128.8)

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