telecom@ucbvax.ARPA (07/01/85)
From: Moderator <Telecom-REQUEST@MIT-XX.ARPA>
TELECOM Digest Monday, July 1, 1985 12:41AM
Volume 4, Issue 208
Today's Topics:
AJ-4800 modems
Re: AJ 4048 in TELECOM Digest V4 #207
2400 baud modems available cheap(er)
Re: AJ-4800 modems
missing direct access option
Anonymous submission
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Date: Sat, 29 Jun 85 13:39:41 edt
From: ulysses!smb@Berkeley (Steven Bellovin)
Subject: AJ-4800 modems
I also have an AJ 4800 baud modem, but I've had no problems with it
interpreting ^S or any other character. Nor does it seem to have trouble
with the 8th bit -- I use a Teletype 5620 and download it often, which would
not work if the modem did anything weird with any characters. However --
some models of the modem have an error-correcting board; this board (which can
be disabled) might do such things. We don't use them because they cause
annoyingly long echo delays.
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From: vax135!timeinc!dwight@Berkeley
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 85 19:44:36 edt
To: vax135!houxm!ihnp4!cbosgd!ulysses!ucbvax!telecom
Subject: Re: TELECOM Digest V4 #203
Newsgroups: fa.telecom
In-Reply-To: <8413@ucbvax.ARPA>
Organization: Time, Inc -- New York
Cc:
Re: Pointers to Microcom
I found Microcom and a nearby distributor. The writer on fa.telecom
who mentioned that the SX/2400 is the modem that implements MNP,
and that the ZX/2400 is Hayes compatible, but without MNP, was wrong.
I am using one of the ZX/2400 modems right now, in MNP mode,
with our Unix host, from home. It's Hayes compatible with MNP.
The SX/2400 also has MNP, but I am given to understand that it
does NOT have Hayes compatibility.
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Date: Sat 29 Jun 85 12:36:56-PDT
From: Doug <Faunt%hplabs.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa>
Subject: Re: AJ 4048 in TELECOM Digest V4 #207
About the AJ4048: I am composing this using a 4048, from home, running
EMACS on a DEC20, using a hacked H19 with a META key, and the META
key, ^S (incremental search), and ^Q (single character quote) work
just fine. The trick is, I think, is that AJ sells a version of the
unit that includes error correction, by packetizing, and checking, and
retransmitting them, if necessary. I suspect that's what you've got,
and since I have the other, I don't know how to disable the EC, but I
suspect that's what you have to do.
We've got a couple of 4048's on our security dial-back unit in Palo
Alto, and four at people's homes. I have, here in Oakland, 50 miles
from PA, the RJ45, and sometimes get an intolerable connection the
first one or two tries, and often see a small number of noise
characters during a several hour session. The other three units are
using a RJ11 permissive connection, and at least two of them, closer
to PA, are reportedly working quite well.
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Date: Thursday, 27 June 1985 10:42-MDT
From: Scott Jones <saj@mit-prep.ARPA>
Subject: 2400 baud modems available cheap(er)
Racal-Vadic 2400 baud modems are available directly from Racal-Vadic
for an educational discount price of $415. The constraints are that
the order must total at least $1000 and the PO must come through an
educational institution. The list price for their Maxwell 2400 is
$795.
Call 1-800-4-VADICS for more info.
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Subject: Re: AJ-4800 modems
Date: 29 Jun 85 23:35:13 EDT (Sat)
From: Mark Weiser <mark@umd-markssun>
Any idea how to turn off the error-correcting board?
-mark
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Date: Sun, 30 Jun 85 17:25:53 EDT
From: Doug Hirsch <dhirsch@bbncc2.ARPA>
Subject: missing direct access option
Re: the message of Rick (my equal access carrier is limbo) Kovalcik
>Date: Wed, 26 Jun 85 09:44 EDT
>From: Kovalcik@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA (Richard Kovalcik, Jr.)
>Subject: equal access confusion
Rick is disheartened that he has no direct access for the time being. I would
like to get this feature! Right now my phone is vulnerable to long distance
phone calls by anyone who happens to be in my apartment or tap onto my line.
My roomate and I each have our own common carrier with separate bills to
simplify accounting. I had a roomate (since moved out) who caused some
surprize charges on the phone bill which wouldn't be there if he were force to
use his own account. I would like to see "none of the above" as one of the
direct access options. Obviously this won't happen because "none of the above"
has an inadequate lobbying staff in Washington.
Doug (liable for the phone bill) Hirsch
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Date: Mon 1 Jul 85 00:37:06-EDT
From: The Moderator <TELECOM-REQUEST@MIT-XX>
Subject: Anonymous submission
Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers Association
311 First St. NW, Suite 500
Washington, DC 20001
Release: immediate--June 3, 1985
``INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF COMPUTER ASSOCIATIONS
OPPOSES OECD PLANS TO MONITOR AND POSSIBLY TAX
INTRA-COMPANY TELECOMMUNICATIONS''
WASHINGTON--The International Information Industry Congress
(IIIC), meeting in Tokyo, took strong exception to plans by the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to
study data flow in multi-national companies, with the probable
end result of taxing certain kinds of information going from one
subsidiary to another.
Vico E. Henriques, president of the Computer and Business
Equipment Manufacturers Association (CBEMA), which represented
the U.S. at the IIIC meeting, called ideas to tax information
"unprecedented and irresponsible. A tax on transferring
information from one subsidiary to another would seriously
hamper common business practices that are in the best economic
interests not just of companies but also of the countries in
which they do business."
The plan that has caused the opposition is part of a draft
agenda for a meeting of the Working Party on Transborder Data
Flows. The IIIC members agreed to discourage this direction
through their countries' representatives to the meeting.
In a related action, the IIIC adopted a statement against
generalized, far-reaching governmental restrictions on the flow
of information across borders. The organization advocated:
- Making sure that "national security" restrictions on
information flow apply only to "data having national security
implications rather than taking the form of any general
restrictions" on commercial, financial, and non-military
technical information.
- Developing consistent international practices to safeguard
personal privacy.
- Demonstrating that easy flow of information across borders
does not necessarily lead to more centralization in
multi-national corporations. (There is a fear among some
that such centralization could make a multi-national
corporation's subsidiaries less responsive to local cultural,
political, or economic needs.)
- Demonstrating the economic benefits of transborder data flow
to both national and multi-national corporations.
The IIIC, founded in 1982, includes computer trade associations
from the following countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada,
Denmark, Germany, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand,
Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the U.S.A. Its purpose is to
strengthen the industry by advancing public understanding and by
providing a forum for the resolution of common concerns.
The OECD is an inter-governmental organization of 24
industrialized countries (including the United States) that
seeks to sustain economic growth by coordinating economic
policies.
For copies of the IIIC transborder-data-flow paper, contact
Cheryl Bush at CBEMA (202-737-8888).
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