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From: lmc@denelcor.UUCP (Lyle McElhaney)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: fast modems on the net
Message-ID: <505@denelcor.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 14-Jul-84 18:46:46 EDT
Article-I.D.: denelcor.505
Posted: Sat Jul 14 18:46:46 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Jul-84 23:28:22 EDT
Organization: Denelcor, Aurora, CO
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Denelcor has just decided to buy some of the 2400 baud fd modems, and I have
a couple of questions. There are, apparantly, three: Racal Vadic, Codex,
and Concord Data Systems. All are compatible with each other (and with
Bell 224 (?) standard and an X. standard) as I understand it. The R-V
modem is difficult to obtain, and is twice the price of the others, so
forget it for the moment. Now, does anyone have any comparisons of the
features of the other two (or others which may have popped up)?

Secondly, is anyone actually using them for uucp mail/news yet? We might
be interested in a news link with someone in a logically far corner of
the net to us, in order to get some of the stuff we seem to miss, and to
short out some of the long delays we see from here. The pendulum swings
both ways, of course, so we would be willing to split costs or some such.
The saving using the 2400 baud modems, batching (we use Peter Gross' bnproc
batching) and data compression might make it palatable to our management.

Any responses welcomed.
-- 
		Lyle McElhaney
		(hao,brl-bmd,nbires,csu-cs,scgvaxd)!denelcor!lmc