Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!gatech!gitpyr!curtis
From: curtis@gitpyr.UUCP (Curtis Crowson)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Modems
Message-ID: <2254@gitpyr.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 14-Sep-86 19:51:44 EDT
Article-I.D.: gitpyr.2254
Posted: Sun Sep 14 19:51:44 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 15-Sep-86 02:14:25 EDT
References: <2222@gitpyr.UUCP> <170@sas.UUCP>
Reply-To: curtis@gitpyr.UUCP (Curtis Crowson)
Distribution: net.micro.amiga
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Lines: 24
Keywords: Amiga Modems 1200RS Answermate

In article <170@sas.UUCP> walker@sas.UUCP (Doug Walker) writes:
>In article <2222@gitpyr.UUCP>, curtis@gitpyr.UUCP (Curtis Crowson) writes:
>> 
>> 	Alright, once again I must ask.... What is happening with the
>> Amiga specific modems?  
>Why do you want an Amiga-specific modem anyway?  It would be much more
>flexible to have a generic Hayes-compatible 1200 or 2400 baud modem
>which most any computer system would support than to lock yourself
>into an Amiga-specific modem.  

The 'Amiga specific' modems (like the Answermate) were to take advantage
of the special features of the Amiga....Well that's what I heard.  Sure, 
I could buy any stand alone modem, but why not get something that could
accept push-button tones and pass them along to the Amiga (Tecmar) so that
you could have a program that could accept user input using the phone keypad,
or one that could save/retrieve digitized messages for use as an answering
machine (Answermate/Commodore).  The 1200RS was just added in my discussion
since I was still curious about when it would be released.  I have been 
informed that IT is currently available from dealers.  I have also been
told (as a rumor) that the Answermate project has been abandoned.

--Curtis Crowson                       {pick-a-root}!gatech!gitpyr!curtis

"After all, if you're going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance."