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From: W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.ARPA (Keith Petersen)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Looking for a fast modem < $1000.
Message-ID: <KPETERSEN.12352890106.BABYL@SIMTEL20.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 23-Nov-87 07:52:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 23 07:52:00 1987
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Mike, I have two US Robotics HST 9600 modems and am very pleased with
them.  This is a full-duplex modem with 9600 in one direction and 300
in the other.  That presents no problems since I can't type that fast.
The end with the greatest amount of data to transfer gets the 9600 bps
channel.  It switches dynamically and transparent to the user.

I've been using these modems to transfer very large amounts of data
between mainframes and my microcomputer using the Xmodem-1k, Ymodem,
and Zmodem protocols, which all use 1k or greater block sizes.
Protocols using 128-byte blocks are not efficient through any
high-speed morem, especially one with built-in error checking.

I have seen the HST 9600 modem advertised in the "Computer Shopper"
for as little as $695.

--Keith Petersen
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