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From: sl@van-bc.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: TELEBIT Usenet/UUCP Program
Message-ID: <1446@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Oct-87 05:38:51 EDT
Article-I.D.: van-bc.1446
Posted: Thu Oct 15 05:38:51 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 17-Oct-87 00:25:39 EDT
References: <2014@mcdchg.UUCP> <186@tmsoft.UUCP>
Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Distribution: can
Organization: Public Access Network, Vancouver, BC.
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In article <186@tmsoft.UUCP> mason@tmsoft.UUCP (Dave Mason) writes:
>Telebit is offering the version of their 14,000 bit/sec modem that
>understands UUCP g protocol (the one everyone uses) to REGISTERED uucp
>sites at half price (~US$670 - CAN$900) (maximum 2/site).
>
>Currently it is only listed as being for the U.S.A.  If the offer was
>extended to Canada, how many sites would take them up on the deal?  If
>you would, send me mail, and after I have some measure of the demand,
>I will approach Telebit & see if they will extend the offer.

I have already done so. So far they are offerring a 40% discount, with a
limit of one per Usenet site. That works out to $1265 CDN.

>also posted a report that the Telebit can get 16000+ bits/sec measured

I'm currently getting about 650 cps (chars per sec) throughput to UUNET on a
Trailblazer. This will improve when I get swapped for a Trailblazer Plus
which has the data compression as well. 


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