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From: root@zswamp.uucp (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: RE: Prometheus ProModem Ultima
Message-ID: <7224.280D2811@zswamp.uucp>
Date: 17 Apr 91 19:05:40 GMT
Organization: Izot's Swamp BBS (FidoNet), Kitchener, Ontario
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Scott Mandell (cavalier@alchemy.tcnet.ithaca.ny.us ) wrote:

 >I discourage you from purchasing from Prometheus though.  
 >Their support BBS is dead...

   Do you have an e-mail address or number for their BBS?

 >If Prometheus wants to make modems and compete with the big 
 >boys, they 
 >better shape up.  For now I encourage you to write them a 
 >letter saying 
 >you were considering buying their modem but decided not to 
 >because you 
 >heard about their awful support and attitude.

   Pity.  I had a nasty experience with a Promodem 1200G years ago and have 
not used Prometheus since.  I don't know why because, with the exception of 
the overheating problem (which was only a problem with the models that had 
internal power supplies), I really liked their design.  The Promodem 1200 was 
one of the first affordable modems to offer busy detection (which became 
standard on 2400 bps modems).  I also liked their display, with the upturned 
red panel which lit letters rather than lighting bland LEDs over printed 
letters in a flat front window.  The display wasn't really that much better, 
only different - and quite refreshingly pleasant.
 

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