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To: Linda Kaplan who wrote (17164)	8/23/1998 10:13:00 PM
From: WebDrone	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213172

Linda, modem problems are either ISP's or the modem's. If you have an ISP that supports the ITU V.90 standards, and your phone connection is decent, no problems. Users can choose any ISP that supports the standards. There is a rather vitriolic but informative post on this issue: Message 5568481 The US Robotics guys know their modem stuff, no doubt! If your ISP supports V.90 and the phone line is bad, the ISP will kick you down in speed, and the modem gags. Who makes this modem, I think it's BOCI. In any event, they are gonna sell a lot of modems by year end. Even if the modem isn't very good. What happens if you try to connect at 34k directly, rather than ratcheting down? I'll try it tonight. Don't know what I'll see. ON ANOTHER TOPIC- How do you option people calculate the expected price of options vs. share price and time? I use a wing and a prayer, and I'm looking over the Black-Scholes formulas, maybe to put in a Clarisworks spreadsheet. Then I started thinking, this information has just got to be easier to come up with than rolling your own. Any recommendations? WebDrone

To: Linda Kaplan who wrote (17164)	8/24/1998 7:15:00 PM
From: Rishi Gupta	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 213172

Linda, I don't know if you or anyone who read this post can help. I bought an iMAC for my daughter over the weekend. We had 3 old Macintoshs, a powerbook, a Centrium(?), a Mac2C and a Mac2E at home. Therefore we are Apple fans. But I found out a few things about the iMAC: (1) The product line give AppleTalk up.----THis means all previous Apple Macintoshes can not be connected via AppleTalk cable.-----The solution is that you need to purchase an Nu-bus based Ethernet card to connect to iMAC. (2) This also means you can not use AppleTalk connected Printers.---YOu have to wait for the USB enabled printers. (3) The iMAC does not have a floppy drive. (it comes with a CDROM drive). You need to wait for a ~$150 superdrive which support either a 120MByte super floppy or regular 1.44 MByte floppy. Is AppleTalk dead forever on iMAC? R.