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From: kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Need help using Microcom 9624 (9600 baud MNP) with uucp
Message-ID: <234@ditka.UUCP>
Date: 14 Apr 88 04:45:25 GMT
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Reply-To: kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz)
Organization: Pittsburgh Fish Hackery, Pittburgh, PA
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In article <569@drexel.UUCP> jeff@drexel.UUCP (Jeff White) writes:
>   Does anyone know if there are problems in using Microcom 9624 modems
>with uucp?  I have a pair of them that I am trying to use to link two Sun
>computers (one a 3/50, the other a 3/160).  Both are running SunOS 3.4 with
>the 4.3 version of uucp.

We have several of these modems, two in our Pittsburgh office, and
one up in Vancouver BC.  Each was hooked up to a Sun-3/160. I never
could get UUCP to work between them, and even one talking to a local
system with a generic modem caused me unending grief.

I finally got so disgusted with the damn things that I yanked one
off the Sun here and replaced it with a 1200 baud DF03.  UUCP has
not had a significant problem since, and other people got disgusted
with the Microcom they had for interactive use and replaced it too,
also with a 1200 baud modem.

The bottom line is that I wouldn't recommend--or even try to use--
a Microcom 9624 as anything besides a paper weight or anchor for a
small boat.  Cut your losses and buy a pair of TrailBlazers.

-- 
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