A guide to the hardware and software of modem use, covering the installation of a modem, either as a box connected to the serial port or as a plug-in card to the PC. It explains how to connect to other computers through telephone lines, and how to use bulletin boards and other telephone-based services. Using modems can be very expensive in telephone time and the book describes cost-effective methods such as using the computer to download to disk at `cheap' rate times. Call signs, log-in procedures, passwords and the essential, but often bewildering topic of serial protocols are explained in detail for the non-technical user.
- ISBN10 0632022922
- ISBN13 9780632022922
- Publish Date 16 May 1988
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 June 1992
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Imprint Blackwell Science Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 144
- Language English