greg@uop.EDU (Greg Onufer) (06/29/89)
hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) writes: >In article <14114@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> dav@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (William David Haas) writes: >>I lost my modem due to a rain storm recently and I am preparing to get a new >>one. I was wondering what the market for 9600b modems was like for the st. >The market for the ST is the same as for any other computer that can use >a modem. 9600bps, V.32 compatible modems aren't too cheap; say $600 at the >low end. And if you thought you had trouble finding 2400bps modems that >could talk to each other, you're really in for a surprise when you try to >get 9600 or 19200 working. V.32 will probably be the standard for 9600 & >19200bps modems. Lots of modems claim to adhere to this standard now, but Get a TrailBlazer, any model. They are relatively inexpensive (many different ways of getting half off the list price), extremely reliable, and are incredibly fast, especially with the protocol spoofing (Kermit, X-Modem, UUCP, etc... and Van Jacobson's Compressed SLIP should be available Any Day Now(tm)). I bought a TrailBlazer Plus, on a student's budget over five months ago for half price (I registered my Sun-1 in the UUCP maps... that was the condition of getting the discount bac then). I have never had a problem with it and even with a 68010 running SunOS, it gets well over 1.3k per second throughput. Oddly enough, I have yet to connect it to my 1040ST... Cheers!greg