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From: randy@oresoft.UUCP (Randy Bush)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Synchronous 9600bps Smart Modems?
Message-ID: <54@oresoft.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 1-Aug-87 22:43:10 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug  1 22:43:10 1987
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References: <616@bbking.PRC.Unisys.COM> <3649@well.UUCP>
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Summary: Telebits and HSTs are not synchronous, they're asynch only

In article <3649@well.UUCP> rab@well.UUCP (Bob Bickford) writes:
>   The Telebit Trailblazer (or whatever they're calling it now) does
>autodialing and just about every other Hayes command you care to name.

Neither the Telebit Trailblazer nor the US Robotics HST are *synchronous*.
They're both asynch only modems.  I have used both, and must warn that they're
not the panacea which marketing literature may indicate.  Each has it's idio-
syncrasies, which we can discuss over net mail, if you're interested.  They do
work, and are quite useful.  It's just early in the low-cost 9600 cycle, and
the emptor should caveat.

BTW, I am a participant in Fidonet's testing of these modems, and would direct
you to Bob Hartman (..!tektronix!oresoft!dawggon!bobh) for a collection of the
general Fidonet consensus on these puppies.
-- 
Randy Bush, Compiler Group, Oregon Software, Portland Oregon (503) 245-2202
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