[net.micro.amiga] Avatex 1200 modem

brent@orsvax1.UUCP (Brent Chivers) (04/21/86)

Sorry to clutter the net with an individual reply, but the
mailers barfed it back and I have (not surprisingly) gotten
the question more than once.  To Al Hall (Xerox osbunorth) et al:

	RE: Avatex 1200 modem for $99

I ordered my Avatex from California Digital.  The company copies of our
BYTE subscription mysteriously vanish, and I'm not at home with my copy
or with the shipping box, but here's what information I've got on hand:

800-421-5041	California Digital Inc, 17700 Figueroa St, Gardena, CA 90248
213-217-0500	Technical Questions, California Orders, and Customer Service

Their ad was towards the back of the April '86 issue of BYTE,
(see index of advertisers).  They accept VISA and MasterCard,
and ship UPS.  Delivery was about 11 days to N.J.

I posted my first queries about the Avatex to net.micro.amiga, because
I first saw it advertised (without brand name) for $109 by Megatronics
(of Utah) in AmigaWorld magazine.  When I found the ad in Byte later,
I decided the range of response should be expanded to net.micro.

My last response was to a posting noting the power supply ran on the
warm side.  I received an earlier response from someone who had used
several.  He noted the Avatex might be slightly more sensitive to line
noise than some others, but not enough to be a problem.  I have noticed
no noise problems in my use, but my Vax is only 3.6 miles from my home.
As noted, your local computer can't tell the modem to hang up, but that
is probably not a major problem for most of us.  I miss the internal
speaker, and it's missing many "Hayes" commands, but it works fine at
both 300 and 1200, and it does dial.  My sticking power switch sticks
much less now.  I am happy with mine.

Please excuse the commercialism, but I have not been able to respond directly.
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