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From: rdippold@maui.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Another 9600 protocol!
Message-ID: <1991Mar5.212652.27062@qualcomm.com>
Date: 5 Mar 91 21:26:52 GMT
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In article <3826.27d2479a@hayes.uucp> tnixon@hayes.uucp writes:
>Huh?  What utter nonsense.  Any V.32 modem can communicate with a 
>V.32 modem from any other vendor.  USR, Telebit, Hayes, Microcom, 
>and most other modem vendors have high-speed modems that implement
>V.32 and can communicate with high-speed modems from other 

Not quite.  Regardless of the supposed compatability, not all supposed V.32
modems will connect with each other even with V.32 (PC Magazine, Dec 11, 1990,
They reviewed several (7?) V.32 modems), correctly.  I imagine, though, that
those modems that are less than compatible with most of the others will either
shape up or disappear.

>A few BBS sysops might be willing to buy into it, but most sysops
>are much more aware of the importance of widespread compatibility
>than they used to be. 
>
>If CompuCom really believes what they've written about the 
>likelihood of their modem acheiving any kind of widespread 
>acceptance, they're suffering from severe cranio-rectal inversion. 
>God help their investors. 

I think you're underestimating the effect of the fact that this modem is
available now and give you 9600 bps for $169, or modem/fax/voice mail for
$269.  I imagine that with most of the people Hayes deals with that $300-400
bucks isn't a big deal, but it is for most users.  I don't have one of
these CompuComs, but I am the On-Line columnist for a computer magazine, and
these things are popping up all over the place, on boards and with lots
of users, in amazing numbers.  The big selling point is that it's only about
$50 more than a decent 2400 baud external modem, and for that $50 they get
MNP5 and 9600 bps with some boards.

Add in the fact that the boards which are adding CompuCom nodes are the _big_
boards (Rustie and Edie's, Exec PC, Aguila) that have the files, and you've
got an incentive to buy one.  I'll stick with my Double Standard, thank you,
but if I couldn't afford it I might buy one of these.  They're not a cheap
knockoff, they're using new technology to make 9600 less expensive.  I saw
one of these things, using their Dynamic Impedance Stabalization, connect
without line noise on a line that almost crippled a Dual Standard and a Hayes
Ultra 9600.

I imagine the same thing will happen that happened with the C64.  They'll get
no respect from the power users, but they'll sell obscene amounts of them.