awinterb@udenva.UUCP (Art Winterbauer) (07/05/86)
I'm trying to decide whether I should buy an Anchor 6470 300/1200 baud modem or the Commodore 1670 300/1200 baud modem (I think the model numbers are correct). There's quite a gap in price at the store in which I saw them because, the clerk said, the Anchor model is being discontinued. Are there any major differences between the two? Do they both operate well at 1200 baud? Do they come with emulators? Thanks, Art udenva!awinterb
root@ozdaltx.UUCP (root) (07/08/86)
Be sure you try the modem out befor you leave the store. I have several users on this system running Commodores and the 1670, and they tell me it is letting a tremedous amount of "garbage" though to their computers in an on-line situation. Scotty ...ihnp4!killer!ozdaltx!root DISCLAIMER: "This system is mine, so this really isn't necessary!"
dean@hyper.UUCP (Dean Gahlon) (07/08/86)
> I'm trying to decide whether I > should buy an Anchor 6470 300/1200 > baud modem or the Commodore 1670 > 300/1200 baud modem (I think the > model numbers are correct). There's > quite a gap in price at the store > in which I saw them because, the clerk > said, the Anchor model is being > discontinued. Are there any major > differences between the two? Do > they both operate well at 1200 baud? > Do they come with emulators? > > Thanks, > > Art > > udenva!awinterb If you're planning on using the modem with any commercial or public domain terminal programs, stay away from the Anchor. Their stuff uses a strange protocol that isn't compatible with anything that I know of. I bought the Anchor 6490 (1200-baud modem at Target for $99) a couple of weeks ago. I took it back the next day, because it wouldn't work with *any* of the five terminal programs I've got. I could get it to work with the terminal program that came with it partially (i.e., I could get it to dial, but it didn't want to do anything once it connected). Nothing else could even persuade it to dial out.
porter@cbmvax.UUCP (07/12/86)
> > Be sure you try the modem out befor you leave the store. I have > several users on this system running Commodores and the 1670, and > they tell me it is letting a tremedous amount of "garbage" though > to their computers in an on-line situation. > Scotty > ...ihnp4!killer!ozdaltx!root > My email bounced once, so I am not sure I got through. The 1670 has a switch on the back of the modem for "line balance". In noisy situations, try this switch. It changes the impedance of the telephone line (which every claims is 600 ohms, but no two phone lines are ever the same, and never 600 on the dot) which may be a problem is you are dealing with a PBX system. We have the world's worst PBX at commodore (Northern Telecom) and ANY/ALL modems available on the open market have terrible noise problems, unless they have adaptive equilization, or in the case of the 1670, a line balance switch. Hope this helps, Jeff Porter Commodore Engineering