bruce@sbcs.UUCP (Bruce Factor) (12/06/84)
For those of you in the market to buy 2400 baud modems I
want to inform you of a great deal.
I would like to state that I am not affiliated with ANY of
these companies, and I am not receiving and benefits by
posting this information!
After spending a few days pricing modems I have compiled
the following information (saving the best for last).
If anyone has any additional information I would greatly
appreciate it.
We were intersted in rack mounting them so most of the
prices given are for cards that would plug into a rack.
"box" refers to a stand alone modem.
DEC 1 - (800) 962 - 3244
now DF112-AM 300/1200 card $ 506
now DF126-AM 2400 only card $ 634
Racal Vadic 1 - (800) 482 - 3427
now VA212PAR 300/1200 card $ 445
3/85 VA4224 1200/2400 card $ 740
now VA1681 houses 16 rack $ not priced yet
Concord Data Systems (617) 890 - 1394
Q10-24
now CDS224 AA/ORG 1200/2400 box/card$ 845 $ 825
now CDS224 Autodial 1200/2400 " $ 995 $ 975
now CDS224 ARQ 1200/2400 " $1295
now CDS224 ARQ Auto 1200/2400 " $1395
now CDS224 Super 1200/2400 " $1695
now CDSRM-07A houses 7 rack $ 750
Hayes 1 - (800) 241 - 6492
now Hayes1200 300/1200 box/card$ 499
2/85 Hayes2400 300/1200/2400 box/card$ none
now 08-00056 houses 6 rack $ 766
Quantity Discounts are minimal.
Micom 1 - (800) 527 - 0204
Q >16
now M3012 300/1200 box $ 495
now M3012 plus 300/1200 box $ 595
1/85 M3024 1200/2400 box $ 795
1/85 M3024 plus 1200/2400 box $ 895 $ 805
" " " card $ 845 $ 760
now M3200 houses 16 rack $ 750
General Datacomm (203) 574 - 1118
Q 10 - 19
now DC211AL 300/1200 box $ 675 $ 595
" " " card $ 585 $ 520
1/85 DC2412 1200/2400 box $1195 $1050
" " " card $1105 $ 790
" DS1 houses 16 rack $ 795
Paradyne 1 - (800) 482 - 3333 or 1 - (800) 342 - 3532
now DTU1200D 300/1200 $
now 1200/2400 $ 900
NEC 1 - (800) 538 - 8166
Q 11 -20
now N212BRL 300/1200 box $ 795 $ 669
" " " card $ 725 $ 606
" DSP2430 1200/2400 box $1095 $ 976
" " " card $ 965 $ 855
" N4083 houses 8 - 1200 rack $ 625
" SR0801 houses 8 - 2400 rack $ 900
QUADRAM (404) 923 - 6666
Q > 3
now QM10000 300/1200 $ 695 $ 625
not available ?/2400 $
NO Rack mounting.
Ven-Tel 1 - (800) 538 - 5121
Will Call me back.
300/1200 $
?/2400 $
Promethus (415) 490 - 2370 (check 800)
Distributor:
Will call me back.
300/1200 $
?/2400 $
Fujitsu (408) 946 - 8777 ext 576
not available 300/1200 $
now F1935B 1200/2400 $ 895
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CTS Datacomm (203) 743 - 3681 Pete Coccaro
Distributor: Professional Network Services
Harvey Schlesinger (617) 449 - 6460
Model: CTS2424AD
These people had by far the best deal.
The list price for the Stand Alone (box) modem is $ 795
The list price for the (rack) mounted modem is ~$ 700.
Besides starting off $ 200 less than everyone else their
quantity discounts are very good. The Stand Alone modem
will be available starting January, and their rack mount
modem should be available February.
Here is a Quantity discount price list.
Quantity %dicount S.A. rack
======== ======== ==== ====
1 list $795 $700
2-5 10 % 716 630
6-10 20 % 636 560
11-25 25 % 596 525
25- 30 % 556 490
For all of you usenet sites that are still running 1200
(or possibly even 300) the modems will pay for themselves
very quickly.
From all of the literature that I have recieved here are
a few of the advantages of this modem above the others:
1) works at 300 or 1200 or 2400 asyn (others only 1200/2400)
1200 or 2400 sync
2) Stores 10 numbers (40 chars each) (others only 1)
3) For tone dialing it dials ALL 12 (others only can generate
tones including (* and #) numbers 0-9)
This last one caused a nasty problem when we needed to
generate the extra tones because some of the sites we talk to
have switching systems that require them (Gandalf).
4) Will automatically change the speed (some of the others needed
to the other modem. a manual intervention).
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usenet: {philabs, allegra}!sbcs!bruce Bruce Factor