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From: kimes@ihlpe.ATT.COM (Kit Kimes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Modem communications on an 800
Message-ID: <2693@ihlpe.ATT.COM>
Date: 26 Feb 88 17:15:48 GMT
References: <6548@sol.ARPA> <377@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> <6836@oberon.USC.EDU> <1042@sask.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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Keywords: 800 VT100

In article <1042@sask.UUCP>, long@sask.UUCP (Warren Long) writes:
> It may be the SX212 that I have found in the stores up here.  It has
> both an RS232 and an Atari 800-type SIO connectors.  Looks pretty
> tempting...
>    The price is $179 CDN, which usually indicates the price in the 
> US is about $90 US.
>    Is it true that it comes with NO R: handler??  That is almost,
> but not quite, unbelievable.
> 
Yes it is the SX212 and yes, it comes without an R: handler.  Atari is
going to package the terminal software (SX Express), the R: handler and
an SIO cable and sell it to 8bit owners.  This keeps the cost down for
an ST owner that buys the modem and doesn't need the rest of the stuff.
Most of the BBS's around here have a program consisting of AMODEM with
an R: handler attached that seems to work fine for all that have tried it.
There is also some (prerelease?) version of SX Express floating around
that people seem to like also.


					Kit Kimes  
					AT&T--Information Systems Labs
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