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TELECOM SIG NEWS<br />
by Dave Harvey<br />
The Telecom SIG was held after the WAP meeting on<br />
May 24 and was conducted by George Kinal. No formal program<br />
was scheduled so there was just a question and answer<br />
session. About 10 members were in attendance at the<br />
meeting.<br />
After a few question about the WAP BBS system, there<br />
was a general discussion about the announcement made by<br />
Rich Wasserstrom pertaining to the new 1200 baud modem<br />
that WAP will now be selling through group purchase. The<br />
modem is called A VA TEX-I200. The discussion centered<br />
around the various ads that have been appearing for this<br />
modem and the wide range of prices that are being advertised<br />
for it As an example, one store in Annapolis was advertising<br />
this modem for less than $80.00.<br />
There was some discussion about the special 9 pin DIN<br />
conneetor that some of the Laptop computers use and what is<br />
a good source of supply for this non-standard connector. One<br />
solution, in case a proper connector can't be found, is to cut<br />
off the unused pins on a regular DIN conneetor and use that to<br />
plug into your Laptop computer.<br />
Serial cards will be needed if an external modem is purchased.<br />
One card that was brought to the meeting is marketed<br />
by Memory Plus for $59.00 plus $3.00 shipping and<br />
handling. Their card, Model SSB-I, is compatible with<br />
<strong>Apple</strong>'s Super Serial Card. A cable is needed with the<br />
modem, to be fastened to one of the openings in the back of<br />
the <strong>Apple</strong> II. Memory Plus's address for ordering is: 2632<br />
West Baseline, Mesa, AZ 85202.<br />
A member asked when the next tutorial would be for<br />
Telecommunications. These have been held in the past and<br />
were well received by the membership. George thought that<br />
one could be held if enough interest was expressed and<br />
suggested calling the office to express this interest.<br />
George announced that he has revised his COMTERM<br />
program that he had written a while back so that it can now be<br />
run under the ProDOS operating system and will be available<br />
in the Disketeria soon.<br />
In answer to a question about the CP/M communications<br />
program Modem 740, it was pointed out that this program as<br />
available in the Disketeria is compatible only with the<br />
Applicard, and that the program would have to be revised to<br />
work with the ALS CP/M card. There is a new public<br />
domain program that replaces this program and at present is<br />
not available in the Disketeria but will be soon.<br />
Regarding text file conversion from and to the CP/M,<br />
ProDOS and DOS 3.3 operating systems, ASCII Express<br />
Professional provides a utility that converts from one format<br />
to the other and also Quality Software sells a program that<br />
converts all of these operating systems as well as Pascal.<br />
That program sells for less than $40.00.<br />
The last item discussed was changing the place and time<br />
that the Telecom SIG meets. It was agreed that in the future,<br />
starting in <strong>July</strong>, the Telecom SIG will meet in the WAP<br />
office on the 2nd Monday of each month at 7:30 PM. GO<br />
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