tbray@mprvaxa.UUCP (Tim Bray) (02/28/84)
x <-- USENET insecticide Acoustic couplers, in my experience, are: - flaky - unreliable - slow - overpriced .......etc.... They deserve to become a dead technology. The CCITT is right on this one. Not that they always are, by any means. Whaddayamean you can only get direct-connects on a rental from the phone company? I can buy an ok little 300 jack-compatible for very little money, and a really nice 1200 Rixon or Hayes for (sigh) quite a bit of money. Now, I don't TELL the phone company what I'm doing. Why ask for trouble?