ccrdave@ucdavis.UUCP (Lord Kahless) (09/11/86)
Need cheap 1200 or 2400 baud modem. $70 for 1200, $150 for 2400 baud. Manual dial o.k., if the price is right.
stefan@wheaton (Stefan Brandle) (09/15/86)
Include me in any answers. I have a student budget and $500-$700 modems don't fit into that budget. Volksmodem 1200's go for about $200 or so. Is there anything cheeper and yet decent? -- --------- Stefan Brandle UUCP: ihnp4!wheaton!stefan I never claimed to be sane.
gerber@mit-amt.UUCP (09/18/86)
In article <177@wheaton> stefan@wheaton.UUCP (Stefan Brandle) writes: >Include me in any answers. I have a student budget and $500-$700 modems >don't fit into that budget. Volksmodem 1200's go for about $200 or so. >Is there anything cheeper and yet decent? >-- >--------- >Stefan Brandle UUCP: ihnp4!wheaton!stefan >I never claimed to be sane. I've heard of an Avatex 1200, for $79 plus shipping, from Black Patch Systems. Call them at 1-800-ATARI-02. As of this point, all I've gotten is a busy signal. If someone out there contacts them, or finds a new source for these modems, I'd appreciate hearing about it. -andy -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Andrew S. Gerber MIT '87 Visible Language Workshop | | gerber@mit-amt.MIT.EDU, gerber@mit-mc.lcs.mit.edu, gerber@athena.mit.edu | | UUCP: decvax!mit-eddie!mit-amt!gerber decvax!mit-eddie!mit-athena!gerber | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) (09/18/86)
In article <330@mit-amt.MIT.EDU> gerber@media-lab.UUCP (Andrew S. Gerber) writes: >I've heard of an Avatex 1200, for $79 plus shipping, from Black >Patch Systems. Call them at 1-800-ATARI-02. As of this point, >all I've gotten is a busy signal. If someone out there contacts >them, or finds a new source for these modems, I'd appreciate hearing >about it. I've seen the Avatex advertised all over the place. I know that, for example, a local hacker-oriented store in Columbus called MicroBatics carries them for about the same price. The modem is said to be Hayes compable (except for some obscure features) but I have no idea if it's any good. It's a 300/1200 baud modem, as I understand it. Mark
lrj@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Lewis R. Jansen) (09/19/86)
In article <177@wheaton> stefan@wheaton.UUCP (Stefan Brandle) writes: >Include me in any answers. I have a student budget and $500-$700 modems >don't fit into that budget. Volksmodem 1200's go for about $200 or so. >Is there anything cheeper and yet decent? >Stefan Brandle UUCP: ihnp4!wheaton!stefan Concord Technologies sells a 1200/300 bps, "99% Hayes Compatible" modem for about $130, last i looked. They advertise in _BYTE_. A few months ago i bought one, and it worked perfectly, very clean data tranmission, so on and so forth. It WAS very close to a Hayes, almost everything implemented (would not dial a '*' or '#' in touchtone). They delivered (by UPS) in about a week and a half... Why do i say it 'worked' perfectly? Well, you see there was this thunderstorm, and someone forgot to disconnect the modem from the phone... I know of no modem that can hande a several thousand volt surge/spike coming in thru the phone line... One toasted modem. Basically, i was happy with Concord's 1200 bps modem. -- Lewis R. Jansen, LASSP, Cornell University NOTE: I have no connection with BYTE, or Concord Technologies, apart from being an innocent (!) consumer.
jsm@vax1.ccs.cornell.edu (Jon Meltzer) (09/19/86)
In article <1051@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU> lrj@batcomputer.UUCP (Lewis R. Jansen) writes: > A few months ago i bought one, and it worked perfectly, very clean >data tranmission, so on and so forth. It WAS very close to a Hayes, >almost everything implemented (would not dial a '*' or '#' in touchtone). >They delivered (by UPS) in about a week and a half... > Why do i say it 'worked' perfectly? Well, you see there was this >thunderstorm, and someone forgot to disconnect the modem from the phone... >I know of no modem that can hande a several thousand volt surge/spike >coming in thru the phone line... One toasted modem. > WOW! I've never thought of that possibility! Any way to surge protect a phone line?
hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu) (09/19/86)
In article <2596@cbosgd.UUCP> mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) writes: >In article <330@mit-amt.MIT.EDU> gerber@media-lab.UUCP (Andrew S. Gerber) writes: >>I've heard of an Avatex 1200, for $79 plus shipping, from Black >>Patch Systems. Call them at 1-800-ATARI-02. As of this point, >>all I've gotten is a busy signal. If someone out there contacts >>them, or finds a new source for these modems, I'd appreciate hearing >>about it. > >I've seen the Avatex advertised all over the place. I know that, >for example, a local hacker-oriented store in Columbus called >MicroBatics carries them for about the same price. > >The modem is said to be Hayes compable (except for some obscure >features) but I have no idea if it's any good. It's a 300/1200 >baud modem, as I understand it. > > Mark You should be able to find the Avatex (Avatek?) for about that price from numerous mail-order places, only slightly more from a discount retailer. As for being Hayes compatible, well, they make two models: the 1200, usually sold around this price, and the 1200HC (Hayes Compatible, what else?) which usually goes for another 40-60 bucks. -dave -- David Hsu (301) 454-1433 || -8798 || -8715 "I know no-thing!" -eneevax Communications & Signal Processing Laboratory / EE Systems Staff Systems Research Center, Bldg 093 / Engineering Computer Facility The University of Maryland -~- College Park, MD 20742 ARPA: hsu@eneevax.umd.edu UUCP: [seismo,allegra,rlgvax]!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu "I am NOT a dweeb..."
larry@extel.UUCP (Larry Pajakowski) (09/21/86)
I've had the Avatex modem test on a grunge box. It works about the same as any state of the art comprimise equalized modem. Modems built on the Rockwell chip set work better. It uses the Exar chip inside for most of the dirty work. It does lack some Hayes features like disconecting on +++ and S registers. I bought one since it works well with modem control signals and consequently uucp. For the price it is a good deal. BTW the unit is make in Hong Kong. Larry ihnp4!extel!larry -- Larry Pajakowski Extel Corp, Northbrook, IL ihnp4!tellab1|extel|larry
ccrdave@ucdavis.UUCP (Lord Kahless) (09/22/86)
> > Why do i say it 'worked' perfectly? Well, you see there was this > >thunderstorm, and someone forgot to disconnect the modem from the phone... > >I know of no modem that can hande a several thousand volt surge/spike > >coming in thru the phone line... One toasted modem. > > > WOW! I've never thought of that possibility! Any way to surge protect a > phone line? INMAC, the catalogue house, sells something that's supposed to protect phone lines against such. I don't own one, and have no idea if it works.
rab@well.UUCP (Bob Bickford) (09/26/86)
In a previous article Mark Horton writes: > Andrew S. Gerber writes: > >I've heard of an Avatex 1200, [mucho text deleted] > > The modem is said to be Hayes compable (except for some obscure > features) but I have no idea if it's any good. It's a 300/1200 > baud modem, as I understand it. > I'm using one right now. It works fine, is just as reliable as my (borrowed) Hayes ever was, etc. It is only Hayes compatible if by that you mean that it accepts the same dialing commands. In other words, it does NOT support 95% of the Hayes commands. Of course, the ones it doesn't use are the ones that you as a human would probably never use anyway (like turning verbose command response mode on and off, and turning local command echo on and off, etc.) The two things that I ***don't*** like about it are: 1) No speaker. I would rather be able to monitor the call in progress without having to lift up my telephone (and then put it back down again, etc. etc.) 2) There is *NO* escape-to-command-mode command (the familiar Hayes +++ sequence). Since the command set is so limited, this feature is probably not important, but..... it bugs me. (I used to type +++ AT H0 to hang up, now I have to press a button on the modem.) -- Robert Bickford {lll-crg,hplabs}!well!rab