[Mac-telephony-list] Apple USB modem dongle

[Edward Eigerman via List]

I think the confusion is that most of the early voice compatibility  
was in the form of the "geoport adapter" which Apple didn't officially  
consider a modem. It was a DSP system. It's sort of nit-picking, but  
in a lot of ways it wasn't a modem, because most of the work was done  
in software. I don't think Apple ever shipped anything else, though  
Global Village voice modems were very common at one point.

Ed

On Dec 20, 2006, at 12:24 PM, Benjamin Kowarsch via List wrote:

> On Dec 21, 2006, at 2:10 AM, Martin Joseph via List wrote:
>
>> On Dec 20, 2006, at 8:00 AM, Benjamin Kowarsch via List wrote:
>>
>>> You have to have a voice capable modem. The first voice capable  
>>> modem
>>> Apple used was the Motorola SM56 which started to appear in late  
>>> 2004
>>> or early 2005.
>>
>> The above is clearly wrong.  Apple had voice capable modems going at
>> least back to the performa 5200 series which included the very nice
>> "Megaphone" which allowed for calling and answering voice calls via
>> the modem...
>>
>> Sorry for nit picking.
>
> You will have to take this up with Apple then. Because the above
> statement is from Cupertino and it is official. :P
>
> I think though that you are referring to what was called Geoport
> adapters, which technically could be considered voice modems but
> Apple didn't consider them to be modems. Anything inside a Mac that
> Apple does consider to be a modem did not have voice capability
> before the Motorola SM56. Geoport adapters do not work with MacOS X
> at all.
>
>> I have a USB modem dongle and a couple of working Asterisk installs
>> if that helps any for testing the Unicall driver for that item...
>
> As I had mentioned, we are waiting for some stuff Apple is doing.
>
> BTW, this is a middleware, not a driver. Apple supplies the driver.
> Unicall doesn't know how to talk to Apple's driver. The middleware
> will make the link between the two.
>
> rgds
> benjk
>
>
>
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