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From: cwm@sooner.palo-alto.ca.us (Chris Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.fax
Subject: Re: best value/buy in a class 2 modem
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.213109.12938@sooner.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: 18 Jun 91 21:31:09 GMT
References: <1991Jun17.175919.27756@sooner.palo-alto.ca.us> <4027.285de854@hayes.uucp>
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tnixon@hayes.uucp writes:
>In article <1991Jun17.175919.27756@sooner.palo-alto.ca.us>,
>cwm@sooner.palo-alto.ca.us (Chris Moore) writes: 
>> i'm looking for suggestions on the best class 2 fax modem to ...

>I MUST caution you that the Class 2 standard is NOT YET COMPLETE.  
>Your FOREMOST criteria in selecting a modem should be a firm 
>commitment from the vendor to upgrade the modem's firmware to match 
>the standard when it is published!  Otherwise, you may have a modem 
>that is based on an early draft of the standard (and some companies 
>are selling these!), that will be incompatible with the vast 
>majority of the software that will be coming out for class 2 modems.

Okay -- I'd appreciate any recommendations considering this.  I need the
modem now and I'm not young enough to get into the waiting for standards 
to be super-final-blessed-A#1 status before purchasing -- I'll take my
chances.

  - Chris