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From: hendricp@wanda.waiariki.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Compucom 9600 baud modems
Message-ID: <133.284d5993@wanda.waiariki.ac.nz>
Date: 5 Jun 91 09:37:23 GMT
References: <110.28432781@zswamp.uucp> <CG108DBD.91May30173937@icogsci6.icogsci1.ucsd.edu>
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In article <CG108DBD.91May30173937@icogsci6.icogsci1.ucsd.edu>, cg108dbd@icogsci1.ucsd.edu (Steve -Social Hacker) writes:
> GW> - They claim to use a 16550 UART on their modems, though I don't know if 
> GW> it's the reliable National part or one of the flaky substitutes (WD, MX)
> GW> - FAX model available
> 
> From what I was able to tell, they are not using a 16550.  I have ran
> several different UART identifiers, and they all came up with "No
> 16550".  Also, the included MTEZ is supposed to list FIFO in the

I have all the docs, plus their advertising material here, and nowhere can I
find any claim to this UART - nor can I find one on the card.

> CompuComm 9600/REL (whatever that means) talking to another of the
                 ^^^
> same on a dedicated BBS:
>                        Average 865 cps.
>                        usually 850 - 900 cps
>                        I did observe 920 once.
>                        Speeds as low as 800 - 820 were not uncommon,
>                        but less frequent.

Turn off RELiable mode (error correction), and you should get much more.  Users
on our Opus BBS quite regularly achieve 900-960 cps with ZModem (unless they
use an XT to download with  :-)

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Peter Hendricks, sysop, The Beast BBS, Rotorua, NZ