Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site phri.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!lsuc!pesnta!phri!roy From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: net.news,net.dcom Subject: Re: 2400 baud modems Message-ID: <2139@phri.UUCP> Date: Sat, 18-Jan-86 10:54:12 EST Article-I.D.: phri.2139 Posted: Sat Jan 18 10:54:12 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Jan-86 07:41:52 EST References: <11427@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Followup-To: net.dcom Distribution: na Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY) Lines: 20 Xref: utcs net.news:4104 net.dcom:1611 [administrative note: I've added net.dcom, and directed followups there - RHS] > I've talked with our Arrow distributer, and she said she'ld give me > USRobitics 2400 baud modems for $380 if I could put together an order > of 50 people. Big deal. We buy the USR 2400 for $399, quantity 1 from Advanced Data Products in Gaithersburg, MD. I think they can now be found for about $350 by searching the back pages of BYTE, etc. For Q50, you should be able to get them for a lot less. I've seen similar units for as high as $650; if you're paying more than $400 Q1 for a V.22bis/212A auto-answer/dial modem, you're being seriously ripped off. BTW, I understand that distributors pay $199 for the USR 2400. Even at the "discount" $380 price, they make a nice profit. At the $650 I see in the catalogs, it's disgusting. -- Roy Smith System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016