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From: mhw@wittsend.lbp.harris.com (Michael H. Warfield (Mike))
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: modems from "Cardinal," "Zoom," and "Evertex"
Keywords: Cardinal Zoom Evertex
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Date: 2 Sep 89 00:05:09 GMT
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In article <19372@mimsy.UUCP> zoon@soleil.cs.umd.edu (Sung-Zoon Cho) writes:
>I'm considering to buy a 2400-baud ext. modem from one of the local
>stores which carry modems from "Cardinal..." and "Zoom."

	My experience with the Cardinal modems has been excellent.  Some time
ago I evaluated about a half a dozen "cheapy" 2400 baud modems on our
Masscomp 5600 mini.  The cardinal was the only one that could stand up to
a full news feed round the clock and not go brain-dead two or three times
a week.  It worked as well as much more expensive 2400 baud modems.  I found
only one "peculiarity".  If it is set to auto-answer, it will answer the
phone even if DTR is false (de-asserted).  The modem was NOT configured to
ignore DTR either.  In fact, all of my modems are configured to RESET on DTR
going false.  I reported this to a manufacturer rep from Cardinal some time
ago so they may have fixed it by now.

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