Global Village was a leading manufacturer of easy-to-use fax

Fax

Fax , sometimes called telecopying, is the telephonic transmission of scanned printed material , normally to a telephone number connected to a printer or other output device...

 modems and other telecommunications products for the Apple Macintosh platform. It was one of the few manufacturers to support the Mac's RS422 serial ports without requiring an adaptor. Major product lines included the TelePort series of high speed dialup modems, the PowerPort series of internal PowerBook

PowerBook

The PowerBook was a line of Macintosh laptop computers that was designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. from 1991 to 2006. During its lifetime, the PowerBook went through several major revisions and redesigns, often being the first to incorporate features that would later become...

 modems as well as a series of modems that connected to the Mac's ADB port. Many of its products were bundled with the Macintosh Performa

Macintosh Performa

The Macintosh Performa series was Apple Computer's consumer product family of Apple Macintosh personal computers sold through department stores and mass-market retailers from 1992 until 1997, when it was superseded by the Power Macintosh 5x00 series...

 series of computers and it was the manufacturer for the internal modem in the PowerBook 500 series

PowerBook 500 series

The PowerBook 500 series was a range of Apple Macintosh PowerBook portable computers first introduced by Apple Computer with the 540c model on 16 May 1994...

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Global Village later became a division of Zoom Telephonics.