[A Bit Further OT] - MacBook Modem or External?

[Steve Kane]

On Feb 28, 2008, at 12:50 PM, Alan C. Miller wrote:

> QNAoids--
>
> Hey everyone, sorry to stray even further, but you are the best list
> I can think to ask . . .
>
> I need to access the internet via modem, every day.  My oppressive IT
> dept. at my new job won't let me access the internet in the building,
> but I can get email by modem AND I don't have DSL at home.  So I use
> my modem a couple of times a day.  It may be "old technology", but
> it's useful!
>
> I was thinking about buying a MacBook, BUT . . .  it looks to me like
> the new MacBook doesn't have a modem port . . . is that true?   If
> this is true, do small portable devices exist such as a plug-in USB
> to phone-line modem for mac?
>
> Thanks, you can reply directly to acm AT omsoft.com.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --Alan C. Miller in Davis, CA

For some reason most third party usb modems are not Mac compatible.  
These are:

<http://www.bestdata.com/index.php?file=c-allproddesc&iProductId=16161>

<http://www.bestdata.com/index.php?file=c-allproddesc&iProductId=16160>

This one too if you download the correct driver from the  
manufacturer's site:

<http://multitech.com/PRODUCTS/Families/MultiModemZBA/>

I've archived this info from posts by Randy Singer who is a regular  
contributor to the Mac-L and IOMUG lists. Any mistakes are my own.