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From: DMG4449@RITVAX.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Hayes 9600 sysop offer - a sour deal.
Message-ID: <8810081712.AA14615@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 4 Oct 88 16:39:00 GMT
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Beware!  The 9600 bps CCITT standard has not been set yet.  I hear its going
to be close between USR and Telebit, not Hayes.  Hayes is overpriced -
it always has, and it always will be.  What good is it to have a 9600 modem
when nobody else owns it- remember: you may be able to get it for $400,
but everyone else is spending more than I spent for my computer CPU.  Many
home users will turn towards the USR HST because hundreds of boards
across the nation use HST's, not to mention they are half the price of Hayes.
I think this is a cheap and desperate ploy done much too late for Hayes
to regain the market and continue to be the leader...but I for one hope
it doesn't work.

Box # 1026                        Daniel M. Greenberg
25 Andrews Memorial Drive         Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, NY  14623              Computer Engineering Technology '92

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