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From: tnixon@hayes.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Why do they insist on power cubes???
Message-ID: <3731.27958ba2@hayes.uucp>
Date: 17 Jan 91 11:33:54 GMT
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In article <6189@khaki8.UUCP>, necka@motcid.UUCP (William J. Necka)
writes: 

> 	Just when you thought it was safe, tha thum, tha thum....
> silly modem 2. Have you seen the little hayes modem they are selling
> thru Service Merchindise, a popular catalog wholesaler here in the
> US? They must have gotten the idea from apple. I heard it works fine
> from a friend who got one when he signed up for PRODIGY, but they
> are a little pricey. 

Those modems were designed precisely to Prodigy's specifications.  
They were looking for something that would fit the profile of the 
targetted Prodigy audience -- in other words, has to absolutely as 
simple as possible, with _zero_ telecom/datacom knowledge needed in 
order to make it work.  Perhaps they did get the idea from Apple, 
but I suspect it was more based on extensive market research and 
focus groups (like everything else that Prodigy has done).

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