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From: richh@pnet02.cts.com (Rich Herzog)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Zoom Modems
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Date: 19 Feb 88 08:20:35 GMT
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I was kinda miffed at Zoom once upon a time, because I took advantage
of their developers offer on the 1200 bps modem, only to have them 
come out with the 2400 bps right after I shipped off my money.  They
*did* upgrade my board to the 2400 bps standard for just the differential.
This is now (even as I type) going out on a fairly noisy line at 2400
bps.  I'm happy.  The first disk of utilities was written (undocumentedly)
in IBM Compiled BASIC and thus would work only on True Blue machines
(which mine is not...).  The latest version works fine on clones.  If
I had it to do over, I'd pick an external modem, because I don't expect
I will have the PC architecture forever.  They *do* make an external
modem (finally).  Lastly, they do use the quicker modem chips, and
claim compatibility up to 8.0 MHz bus rates.  I can't speak to this
one way or another, but it sounds as if they have at least addressed
the issue.  I would never consider anything slower than 2400 bps now --
the price/performance doesn't save you as much.  A recent PC magazine
test showed that most 2400 bps modems ran much more reliabily (s/n
tolerance, etc) at 1200 bps than real 1200 bps modems.  

I have no connection with Zoom (they didn't even send me the developer's
kit source codeI'd asked for and filled out forms for) other than as a
satisfied customer.  

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I'm not as confused then as I will be now       ---Rich Herzog
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