root@cromemco.UUCP (root) (03/30/91)
I am thinking of getting a modem and stopped by the local
computer store (Fry's) to look at the boxes and see what was available.
I found a Hayes modem with a big red sticker with "9600 baud port".
This instantly caught my eye, and I saw the price was only around $500. This
sounded to good to be true! A 9600 baud modem for $500? Well, as it
turns out if you read the small print, it really is a outrageously priced
normal run of the mill 2400 baud modem w/ the host -> modem baudrate @ 9600
baud. I wonder how many people fell for this one :-(
If I remember right, it was an internal modem. How do you measure "baud
rate" between the uP and an internal modem?
Tom C.root@zswamp.fidonet.org (Geoffrey Welsh) (03/31/91)
root (root@cromemco.UUCP ) wrote: > If I remember right, it was an internal modem. How do >you measure "baud rate" between the uP and an internal modem? Internal modems actually have an on-board serial port (or emulate one) for compatibility. -- UUCP: watmath!xenitec!zswamp!root | 602-66 Mooregate Crescent Internet: root@zswamp.fidonet.org | Kitchener, Ontario FidoNet: SYSOP, 1:221/171 | N2M 5E6 CANADA Data: (519) 742-8939 | (519) 741-9553 The mile is traversed not by a single leap, but by a procession of coherent steps; those who insist on making the trip in a single element will be failing long after you and I have discovered new worlds. - me