Xref: utzoo comp.sys.att:3549 unix-pc.general:865
Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!labrea!agate!helios.ee.lbl.gov!lll-tis!pacbell!att!mtunx!icus!limbic!gil
From: gil@limbic.UUCP (Gil Kloepfer Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: OBM
Summary: I better eat this one....
Message-ID: <145@limbic.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jun 88 02:12:17 GMT
References: <293@uncle.UUCP> <137@limbic.UUCP> <1020@hsi.UUCP>
Reply-To: gil@limbic.UUCP (Gil Kloepfer Jr.)
Organization: ICUS Computer Group, Islip, NY
Lines: 43

In article <137@limbic.UUCP>, I mistakenly write:
> 
> One more point of clarification -- a lot of folks have been beating the
> OBM (on-board modem) to death on the net, as well as port tty000.  Please
> folks, the hardware is not at fault.
> 

In article <1020@hsi.UUCP> stevens@hsi.UUCP (Richard Stevens) writes:
|>I think the OBM is real junk, especially coming from "the" phone
|>company.  Before getting my 3b1 I was using a Racal-Vadic modem
|>at 1200 with a dumb terminal, and *never* saw any line noise at
|>all.  Then with the OBM, the quality of local calls using it is
|>awful (all the extraneous characters - tildes and the like).

Eek...I think my original words were clearly a case of "open mouth -- insert
foot".

Funny you should talk about line noise...before I got my unix-pc, I was using
a real cheap 1200 baud modem with NO problem.  Enter UNIX-pc with OBM -- now
I sometimes get that "cute" little "}i" when I dial in.

Not to mention Robert's thing about connecting with some smarter modems who
think that the OBM is what it says it is (oops..forgot about that one I did).
Although this one may be something in the OBM's software config, it still
doesn't explain "}i".

|>Why is it the non-AT&T modems are so much better than the AT&T
|>modems ??

AT&T likes it when you retransmit over and over on a long distance call ;-)

|>	Richard Stevens
|>	Health Systems International, New Haven, CT
|>           { uunet | ihnp4 } ! hsi ! stevens

...Taking my beating....

+------------------------------------+----------------------------------------+
| Gil Kloepfer, Jr.                  | Net-Address:                           |
| ICUS Software Systems              | {boulder,talcott}!icus!limbic!gil      |
| P.O. Box 1                         | Voice-net: (516) 968-6860              |
| Islip Terrace, New York  11752     | Othernet: gil@limbic.UUCP              |
+------------------------------------+----------------------------------------+