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From: lm@cottage.WISC.EDU (Larry McVoy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: 2400 Baud Modems for only $189.00!?!  Can this be true?
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Date: Fri, 29-May-87 00:20:12 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 29 00:20:12 1987
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In article <335@osupyr.UUCP> jdc@osupyr.UUCP (Jim D Corder) writes:
>2400 Baud modems for only $189.00!?!  Can this be true?
>
>     Has anyone out there heard of "desktalk" modems?  Are they any good?  Are

I thought this might be of general interest, so no flames ok?  I got this from
comp.dcom.modems, and that's where follups will go.

 > From: uhccux!martin (Brian Martin)
 > Subject: Re: 3 cheap 2400 baud modems
 > Organization: U. of Hawaii, Manoa (Honolulu)
 > 
 > We use the Desktalk II 2400 baud external modem, and have not had a single
 > problem with it.  We modified our uucp files to show that a hayes modem
 > was in use at 2400 baud, and it worked perfectly.  No hacks, etc.
 > 100% Hayes compatibility + 5 year warranty are what sold us.

Larry McVoy 	        lm@cottage.wisc.edu  or  uwvax!mcvoy