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From: phil@diablo.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: MODEM SPEED INCREASE
Keywords: 300 to 1200+
Message-ID: <26819@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: 18 Aug 89 01:26:58 GMT
References: <1436@esunix.UUCP> <1905@ucsd.EDU>
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In article <1905@ucsd.EDU> brian@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor) writes:
|An ambitious and skilled worker COULD chop out much of the existing
|modem circuitry and replace it with something like the WORLDCHIP or
|some other single-chip modem, but that is an incredible amount of work
|and might not be easier than building your own from scratch.

Thanks for the plug, Brian, but I would guess he wanted 1200 full
duplex, or Bell 212 mode. The WORLDCHIP (tm) can only do 1200 half
duplex, V22 or something like that. A brand new modem is pretty cheap
these days and I would just buy a new one. 

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Phil Ngai, phil@diablo.amd.com		{uunet,decwrl,ucbvax}!amdcad!phil
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