Getting modem.mgr going was not fun, but once I read the manual and figured it out, I was good to go. The VT220 emulation didn’t give me any problems, even with unicode characters. I was able to connect at 19.2K without issue also.
I didn’t use the 9″ screen for very long, it was just too small at 80 columns. I dug out an AppleColor Composite Monitor IIe (say that ten times fast) and used it for the majority of the day.
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