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From: james@bigtex.uucp (James Van Artsdalen)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Direct modem line from USA to France?
Message-ID: <5052@bigtex.uucp>
Date: 31 Jul 88 06:18:11 GMT
References: <297@amanue.UUCP> <7651@cup.portal.com> <7752@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: james@bigtex.UUCP (James Van Artsdalen)
Organization: F.B.N. Software, Austin TX
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In article <7752@cup.portal.com>, David@cup.portal.com wrote:
> [..] Because the
> Trailblazer is quite definitely a non-standard product which only talks to
> other Trailblazers (excepting at 1200bps or whatever).  When and if there
> are a dozen vendors making modems that work with the Trailblazer at high
> speed, then I'll buy it.

Ventel makes a PEP modem, and I understand there are others with PEP
products already on the market.

> I know that there are a lot of trailblazers used to connect the USENET
> sites, and that's fine for them, just not fine for me, because I hate
> tossing stuff in the trash in a year or two.

Standards are interesting things.  I have never had anyone ask for a
link with bigtex that couldn't talk to my TB+ at their fastest
supported data rate (one site with a Hayes 2400 has some difficulty
with PEP-tones-first).  I have never asked anyone for a link and found
that I couldn't talk to them at their highest supported data rate.

There may be V.32, Hayes V9600 and US Robotics HST modems out there,
but I haven't seen any sign of them around here.
-- 
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