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From: zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: A 9600 baud modem for $169!!!
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Date: 11 Jun 91 03:06:32 GMT
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In article <29138@know.pws.bull.com> ai065@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thomas Hill) writes:
>
>   I thought this might interest you as it has me. Notice that I am in no
>way related to the following company...

It's not all that interesting:

o It only works with other modems of its type, of which there are
  still very, very few.

o It doesn't work with the Amiga in native mode.  It only works as
  a card for an IBM-PC compatible.  You might be able to use it on
  an Amiga with a BridgeBoard, though.

o There's a catch.  No, I don't know what the catch is.  However,
  there must be some reason that this thing sells for a third of
  the price of comparable equipment.  If the "standards" people
  could have come up with something that offers the same performance
  at a considerably lower cost, why didn't they?

           Dan Zerkle  zerkle@iris.eecs.ucdavis.edu  (916) 754-0240
           Amiga...  Because life is too short for boring computers.