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From: kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: What's a good, cheap, 2400 baud modem
Keywords: modem inexpensive recommendations
Message-ID: <1038@kosman.UUCP>
Date: 4 Dec 89 15:24:23 GMT
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In article <11866@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> ams@gauss.Princeton.EDU (Andrew Simms) writes:
> [some history deleted]
>
>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.

I own 2 T2000's bought before there was a T1000, and I'm glad I had 'em,
but I wouldn't recommend them now, certainly not for a Mac.  Like the 1000,
they only work at 9600 with another telebit, 'cause they use a non-
standard protocol.  The protocol is half-duplex, so it's pretty terrible
for interactive stuff.  Uucp and kermit blaze right along, though.

These days, you ought to be looking at V.32 modems, since that way you
can talk to lots more machines.  These will be getting pretty common
as prices come down.  I knew this was going to be true when I got the
Trailblazers, but I also knew these would pay for themselves in the
year or so it was going to take for it to become true.  (I do a lot
of uucp work, and the 'blazers had become the modem of choice among
systems doing uucp).