dave@lsuc.UUCP (10/28/87)
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One of the things which has mucked up our communications
for the past while has been the unreliability of our
GDC 212A/ED modems. These are excellently-designed modems
and superb for home use -- they have autologon as well as
autodial, so if you have one at home you can literally
push two buttons, go get a coffee and come back to find
yourself logged in. Their only problem in automated
use is that once in a while they hang and have to be reset
by having their power cord unplugged and replugged.
This happens rarely enough that I almost never have had
it happen at home; but for our dialout, where we make
something like 500 call attempts PER DAY, it happens about
once a week. When it happens, it temporarily mucks up our
dialout capability until someone can reset it.
I would like to find someone with a 1200-baud modem at home
who would be willing to swap it for a 212A/ED. You'll get
the autologon feature. I don't need anything back
in terms of number memory or autologon capability; just
reliable dialout and DTR recognition (so if we drop DTR from
this end the modem hangs up).
I'd like to exchange modems on a trial basis for a few weeks and
finalize the trade if we're both happy at the end of that period.
The 212A/ED has 30 memory cells, each of which can hold up to 60
characters for either numbers or logon sequences. Link to another
cell on failed call is provided.
David Sherman dave@lsuc.uucp
The Law Society of Upper Canada
Toronto
947-3466
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