#: 9428 S1/General Interest
    07-Feb-91  20:32:00
Sb: #9415-#New to OS-9 LII
Fm: Erich Schulman 75140,3175
To: Pete Lyall 76703,4230 (X)

I believe I will get the full LII developer's kit instead of LI.  If possible,
I will check out this option further before buying. Considering its current
price and the tip in Msg 9419, I think I will go ahead with getting Multivue. I
certainly recognise the need to get a better system setup.  Considering I paid
only $9.95 for my modem pak, I am willing to relegate it

to backup status.  I found out that the CoCo3's RS232C port ought interface
(with a DIN-->DB-9 or 25 adapter) with a "IBM-compatible" modem

and I have found a good deal on one.  It has, too, a RS232C port and transmits
at 300, 1200, and 2400-baud speeds. This alone would be a big improvement over
the pak:  there is a bbs I want to call but cannot since they only support
1200-baud. For CIS, I would like to use the 2400-baud. To do this, would   POKE
149,0:POKE 150,18   from the DECB OK prompt do?  (cf. pg. 314 of the CoCo3ECB
manual) I also know I need a terminal program worthy of being called one.  I
now have a nonfunctioning copy of Mikeyterm 4.7. Also, RS allegedly has Color
Compac and VIDEOTEX for the CoCo.  Are they any good?  Can they drive the modem
I am thinking of getting (see above)?  Can they also work with the pak (in case
the need should arise)?  What other programs are out there? It will be at least
another 2 weeks before I get to see a current RAINBOW, but when I ordered my
sub, I also ordered a 1986 issue, and I recall seeing an ad for AUTOTERM which,
I presume, is no longer available. What will really help is getting a multipak
interface or the equivalent thereof.  It seems that Howard Medical Co. is the
only source for that now.  I am on their waiting list, and I was told it could
easily be two months before I get one. Maybe I'd be better off building one
myself, as long as I can get a schematic for it.

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