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From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: fax modems / 'normal' modems
Message-ID: <4434@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 16 Apr 88 05:45:41 GMT
References: <834@spdcc.COM> <1988Apr14.182817.414@utzoo.uucp>
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henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) wrote:
>  ...if you want to be able to talk to fax machines, you need a "fax modem",

Note that a "fax modem" is just a 9600 baud half duplex modem, sort
of like the 1200 baud Bell 202 modems of years gone by.  I looked at
these a few years ago (a friend sells an IBM PC card with this chip set)
but it takes it most of a second to turn the line around, so it's really
pretty useless for interactive use.  Or even for file transfers, if you
need flow control or error retransmission.