Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!geaclib!daveb
From: daveb@geaclib.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Stupid Modems
Message-ID: <3366@geaclib.UUCP>
Date: 27 Oct 88 23:33:10 GMT
Article-I.D.: geaclib.3366
Organization: Interleaf Canada.
Lines: 33


  I'd like a recommendation or two for a rara avis: a really stupid
modem.  What I want, you see, is something to attach permanently to
a sun fileserver on a customer site , to gather dust and not ever be
used until something goes wrong and I have to dial in and fix the
poor little computer...
  At a local user group meeting, one person described a line-powered
minature modem, which he described as follows...

    "We told the customers they were a telephone adapter, since the
     phone line has these little bitty snap-connectors and the
     computers have 25-pin plugs and sockets"

  This sounded very much like what I was interested in, subject to
the usual problems of a non-technical office:
    dust
    physical damage (cleaners tripping over things)
    office phone systems (6-pin jacks)
    users

  Suggestions? Ads? War stories?  All information gratefully
accepted.  Ps: speed is not too important: I still own an old
modem that will slow down to 300 baud if cajoled.

--dave


     
-- 
 David Collier-Brown.  | yunexus!lethe!dave
 Interleaf Canada Inc. |
 1550 Enterprise Rd.   | HE's so smart he's dumb.
 Mississauga, Ontario  |       --Joyce C-B