Charles Moore

Charles Moore (1951-2018) was a well known freelance writer who lived in Nova Scotia, Canada who wrote about the Mac for over 20 years — with a special emphasis on mobile computing from the vintage PowerBook to the current generation of the MacBook and iPad — and his column, “The ‘Book Mystique,” had been a weekly feature on MacPrices since 2011 until his untimely passing in 2018 due to health complications.

Mac OS X Lion Kills Off Analog Telephone Modems

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Cult of Mac’s David W. Martin notes that another casualty of the Mac OS X Lion transition is the venerable analog modem, with Apple choosing not to write a driver for its own Apple USB modem, for sale as recently as September, 2009, for OS X version 10.7. While Martin suggests that there are satisfactory workarounds, and approvingly cites a commenter on a HellDiverUK forum […]