bruce@camb.com (Barton F. Bruce) (03/28/91)
A friend ordered a USR v.32 modem and it came with a sticker on the box proclaiming "Now with V.32bis". Same price. Another brand says they will simply be shipping v.32bis within a few weeks instead of v.32 modems. They have BOTH today, but would rather not chase the plummeting v.32 prices into the sewer. By giving v.32bis, they will leave the price locked where it has been for quite a while. Anyone else get a v.32bis without asking for it? Anybody know of other companies about to simply include v.32bis? Any v.32bis/FAX versions have v.17 FAX or whatever it is yet?
hoepfner@lheavx.gsfc.nasa.gov (PATRICK HOEPFNER) (03/29/91)
In article <1991Mar28.042403.39653@camb.com>, bruce@camb.com (Barton F. Bruce) writes... >A friend ordered a USR v.32 modem and it came with a sticker on the >box proclaiming "Now with V.32bis". Same price. > >Another brand says they will simply be shipping v.32bis within a few weeks >instead of v.32 modems. They have BOTH today, but would rather not chase the >plummeting v.32 prices into the sewer. By giving v.32bis, they will leave >the price locked where it has been for quite a while. > >Anyone else get a v.32bis without asking for it? > >Anybody know of other companies about to simply include v.32bis? > >Any v.32bis/FAX versions have v.17 FAX or whatever it is yet? USR has a free upgrade to V.32bis from the V.32 (V.42 to V.42bis were also a free upgrade). I have seen two V.32bis/V.42bis + Send/Receive Fax modems. Promethius makes one called the ProModem Ultima. I don't recall the other. Since I own a Macintosh the Ultima is nice because it includes the cabling and software for FAXing. The other brand didn't. Again, I don't know what platform you have but the FAX stuff can be pretty miserable if you you have to do it on a PC or unix machine by exporting all your files as text and sending them through a utility to convert the file to a faxable document (and loosing all of your formatting). On the Macintosh you can treat the FAX modem just like a printer. This means that your software (Word processing, graphics, etc) doesn't know or care that you are not using a printer and the FAX machine on the other end gets your graphics and word processing documents with formatting intact. There may be better FAXing stuff that I have seen for the PC's or Unix machines. Just that since the Macintoch was built to do graphics, the FAXing can be done easily.
schuster@panix.uucp (Michael Schuster) (03/30/91)
In article <1991Mar28.042403.39653@camb.com> bruce@camb.com (Barton F. Bruce) writes: >A friend ordered a USR v.32 modem and it came with a sticker on the >box proclaiming "Now with V.32bis". Same price. > This is to be expected, since USR has not manufactured V.32-only modems since December. Since December 17 they are V.32bis compliant (or at least claim to be). -- Mike Schuster | CIS: 70346,1745 NY Public Access UNIX: ...cmcl2!panix!schuster | MCI Mail, GENIE: The Portal (R) System: schuster@cup.portal.com | MSCHUSTER