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Subject: Racal-Vadic 2400 baud modems: a good deal?
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Date: Tue, 3-Sep-85 08:02:06 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  3 08:02:06 1985
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That is an excellent price. Would you let a fellow university in on
the contaft at R-V?
There has ben a lot of trouble with all of the 2400bps modems (the R-V
"Maxwell" 2400 unit is included) based on the Rockwell chip set. It is
most curious that these problems have not surfaced in Infoworld, or is
it? In any event, there appear to be real prolems at 1200 bps talking
to certain other modems. This has been notable on Compuserve in
particular. R-V has been working feverishly for a couple of months now
trying to extract better performance from Rockwell, buit no luck as of
yet as far as I know. Note Hayes is in the same boat but doesn't talk
about it, whil R-V lays their cards on the table. US Robotics does
_not_ use the Rockwell chip set so is unaffected.
I have been using a R-V 2400 unit for about two weeks,, mostly to here
and CIS when at 1200 bps and have virtually no problems with it, so it
may well be related to other factors such as phone line quality.

Charlie