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From: bruceg@crash.cts.com (Bruce Geerdes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: A 9600 baud modem for $169!!!
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.200733.18162@crash.cts.com>
Date: 12 Jun 91 20:07:33 GMT
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In article <1991Jun11.222329.1726@disk.uucp> specter@disk.uucp (Byron Max Guernsey) writes:
>This is great and all for IBM users, but unfortunately this is c.s.a.m.. If I
>have a 3000 will it work on it? (I'm assuming not without a bridgeboard of
>some sort).

Just to make this thread *somehow* pertain the Amiga, they are supposedly
working on an external version of the modem.  Who knows how much it will
cost or how much the other 9600bps modems will have come down by then.

>Also to get 9600 bps you need another one of their modems....no HST or v.32
>compatibility. The modem might as well cost 1,000,000 $ cause it is still
>no use to us. 

True.  Though there are some bbs's here in San Diego that have bought
CompuComs for their second lines. (Most have HSTs for their primaries.)