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From: dean@hyper.UUCP (Dean Gahlon)
Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm
Subject: Re: 1200 baud modem query
Message-ID: <65@hyper.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Jul-86 10:53:35 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul  8 10:53:35 1986
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> I'm trying to decide whether I
> should buy an Anchor 6470 300/1200
> baud modem or the Commodore 1670
> 300/1200 baud modem (I think the
> model numbers are correct).  There's
> quite a gap in price at the store
> in which I saw them because, the clerk
> said, the Anchor model is being
> discontinued.  Are there any major
> differences between the two?  Do
> they both operate well at 1200 baud?
> Do they come with emulators?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Art
> 
> udenva!awinterb

If you're planning on using the modem with any commercial or public domain
terminal programs, stay away from the Anchor. Their stuff uses a strange
protocol that isn't compatible with anything that I know of. 
	I bought the Anchor 6490 (1200-baud modem at Target for $99) a couple
of weeks ago. I took it back the next day, because it  wouldn't work with
*any* of the five terminal programs I've  got. I could get it to work with
the terminal program that came with it partially (i.e., I could get it to
dial, but it didn't want to do anything once it connected). Nothing else
could even persuade it to dial out.