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From: tsouth@pro-pac.cts.COM (System Administrator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple Personal Modem 300/1200
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Date: 2 May 88 18:27:26 GMT
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aehl@uwm-evax (Donald Aehl) writes:

> I want to purchase an Apple Personal Modem...

        When I first bought a 1200 baud modem, I thought this would be the
deal.  Unfortunately, four days after I hooked it up, it died.  Then, my
dealer sent it off to Apple to fix (which was wrong in my opinion since I had
had it less than a week and WANTED a replacement!) and Apple only took a
*short* three and a half months to fix it and send it back.  After that I
had no problems with it until I tried to sell it to someone.  It seems that
there are two versions of this modem, and I had the older one.  It only worked
with the Apple SSC for some unknown reason, and it was tested on every Apple
][ family computer there is, so I did validate this fact.  The newer ones will
work with all Apple ][ systems.  If I were you, I would certainly want to test
drive it on YOUR computer configuration before purchasing it.  Also, you
don;t really want to pay more than $100, which is what the average non-error
correction modems (like the Personal) are really selling for.  Of course,
Apple still thinks they can sell a lot of these modems at $300-$400 depending
upon the dealer.  The sad thing is it is usually the first time modemer with
no associates to talk to that get sucked into paying so much for an average
modem with no frills at all (Doesn't even have LED's!).

Todd South

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