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From: era@era.scd.ucar.edu (Ed Arnold)
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Subject: Re: New TDD's
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Date: 20 Jul 90 04:54:54 GMT
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In article <12841@bunker.UUCP> Ann.Stalnaker@p0.f14.n385.z1.fidonet.org writes:
>Index Number: 9237
>
>Did you by chance get to see a demonstration of the new TDD system 
>1310?  I noticed there were two displays of this system, however, 
>AT&T stated theirs broke in transit, so I was not able to see a demo.
> 
>If you did see a demo at the second booth, perhaps you'll share some 
>info with us.  I still think a CPU is far superior to any TDD.

Ann,

I previously inquired about whether anyone knew of a dual mode modem
supporting TDD and 1200 or 2400 baud ASCII.  The results of my inquiry
were that such a thing doesn't exist, but there is a 300 baud ASCII/TDD
dual-mode modem available ... which describes exactly the communication
capabilities of the 1310.  The 1310 doesn't offer 1200 or 2400 baud either,
it's just a 300 baud & TDD communications terminal.

The logic of AT&T's marketing on this thing escapes me.  Why would anyone
buy a 1310 when one could get a lot more by buying a used PC and a
dual-mode modem, so one could store and/or manipulate messages as a real
computer can do?
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