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From: ams@gauss.Princeton.EDU (Andrew Simms)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: What's a good, cheap, 2400 baud modem
Summary: why go 2400 when 9600's are geting really cheap
Keywords: modem inexpensive recommendations
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Date: 2 Dec 89 02:16:01 GMT
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Just a thought for those considering 2400 baud modems.  I bought
a Hayes micromodem ][ when accoustic couplers (apple-cats) were
the in thing on the Apple ][.  I then replaced it with a hayes 
1200.  I kept it until I bought a Mac in '86, when I bought a 
Practical Peripherals 2400. 

Now the PP is sitting on top of a new box that I just got on eval.
It is from Telebit and it is called a T1000.  It is a PEP modem
that does up to 9600 baud (error corrected) over regular phone lines.
It is also a 2400/1200/300 modem when you need to connect to slower
stuff.  Among its many nice features is a special file transfer 
protocol support--speeding up Kermit, X/Ymodem or uucp tremendously.
It also does level 4 MNP at 2400 baud.  The best news of all is the
cost:  $599.00.

So before you buy that 2400, give this some consideration.  Of course,
in another year it will be the T10,000 etherbaud modem only to be 
outdone by the hyperspace-modulator in '91...

Perhaps someone else could talk about US Robotics 9600baud + product line?
--ams

p.s.  Telebit is located at:
	1345 Shorebird Way
	Mountain View, CA   94043-1329

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  Andrew Simms					ams@acm.princeton.edu
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  Program in Applied and Computational Math
  Princeton University
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