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From: root@cromemco.UUCP (root)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Is hayes pulling my leg?
Keywords: missleading modems
Message-ID: <105@cromemco.UUCP>
Date: 30 Mar 91 00:59:42 GMT
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Organization: Cromemco Inc.
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    I am thinking of getting a modem and stopped by the local
computer store (Fry's) to look at the boxes and see what was available.
I found a Hayes modem with a big red sticker with "9600 baud port".
This instantly caught my eye, and I saw the price was only around $500. This
sounded to good to be true! A 9600 baud modem for $500? Well, as it
turns out if you read the small print, it really is a outrageously priced 
normal run of the mill 2400 baud modem w/ the host -> modem baudrate @ 9600
baud. I wonder how many people fell for this one :-(

    If I remember right, it was an internal modem. How do you measure "baud
rate" between the uP and an internal modem?

                           Tom C.