[msuper69]

This should trigger some memories from those old enough to remember 300 baud modems:

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/C...25?nocomment=1

[richwig83]

Ahh the joys of have a 102169.18@compuserve.com email address!

[ghporter]

This makes me think of Karl Malden, who surprised a lot of people yesterday, when he died-they were surprised he was still around in the first place. I'm surprised Compuserve in any form was still around to "go quietly into that good night" yesterday. I thought AOL had ground it up for fertilizer (like they needed more of it) years ago.

[Spheric Harlot]

Ah. Sad.

My first e-mail address was @compuserve. Back then, they were the first here to offer e-mail to the internet proper here in Germany. 1995…ish?

[badidea]

If I'm not mistaken, I was for the first time online with Apple's eWorld in 1994!
When eWorld died I sometimes used one of those compuserve and/or AOL CDs to get into the www...

[OreoCookie]

Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot 

Ah. Sad.

My first e-mail address was @compuserve. Back then, they were the first here to offer e-mail to the internet proper here in Germany. 1995…ish?

Same here, I got online in 1995 via Compuserve. Talked my parents into it by buying a modem and telling them about `the internet' Good memories.

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot 

Ah. Sad.

My first e-mail address was @compuserve. Back then, they were the first here to offer e-mail to the internet proper here in Germany. 1995…ish?

Originally Posted by OreoCookie 

Same here, I got online in 1995 via Compuserve. Talked my parents into it by buying a modem and telling them about `the internet' Good memories.

Ahh, good times.

-t

[richwig83]

Anyone else have one of these back in those days??

[ghporter]

Yup. I still have a 56k unit stashed somewhere, but it's got a 9-pin serial connection so it won't work with my Macs. My MBP came with Apple's USB modem, and every now and then I notice that tiny little thing and think about the "small and streamlined" USRobotics modem I had and just shake my head...

[Dork.]

Originally Posted by ghporter 

Yup. I still have a 56k unit stashed somewhere, but it's got a 9-pin serial connection so it won't work with my Macs.

Sure it will, you just need one of these.

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by Dork. 

Sure it will, you just need one of these.

And some drivers, I assume ?

-t

[Dork.]

If it's an old-style AT-compatible serial modem (not a winmodem), you will only need the serial driver from the dongle manufacturer.

[ghporter]

As it happens, I just recalled that I'd gotten a Mac-supported USB-to-serial adapter a while back to allow me to (I had hoped) collect GPS waypoints from a Garmin device. No dice there because Garmins don't seem to want to talk to Macs, but I do have the hardware. My 56k modem is WAY earlier than the "Winmodem" craze, so it should work fine on anything, given an appropriate dongle driver, anyway.

[Dork.]

GPS devices are a different animal entirely. Odds are the serial communication itself is working fine, but there's no Mac software that uses Garmin's proprietary communications protocol over that serial link. A little bit of googling yielded this, but it seems old, so YMMV.

Your Garmin device may be able to be configured to send NMEA messages instead of (or in addition to) their proprietary protocol, which might work better with whatever mapping software you have, since NMEA is a more compatible, less proprietary standard. NMEA messages also have the advantage of being sent in ASCII, so if your receiver is configured to send these, you ought to be able to open that serial connection to the receiver in your favorite terminal program and watch the messages coming in: You would be able to read NMEA messages as ASCII characters but other messages are probably binary gibberish...

(I have a professional interest in GPS devices, but not in mapping software.... PM me if you have any more questions, and I'll see if I can be of any help....)