Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!apple!voder!pyramid!comdesign!ivucsb!steve From: steve@ivucsb.UUCP (Steve Lemke) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: Which is best? Message-ID: <366@ivucsb.UUCP> Date: 4 Nov 88 19:33:42 GMT References: <9515@conexch.UUCP> <1125@vsi1.UUCP> <299@telebit.UUCP> <10711@cup.portal.com> <1168@vsi1.UUCP> Reply-To: steve@ivucsb.UUCP (Steve Lemke) Distribution: na Organization: The Audio Club at UCSB, Isla Vista, California Lines: 37 In article limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) writes: }Right now I don't have a modem. Really! I use a phone system that }offers simultanious voice and data (data is non-blocking at any bps }rate... I use 19.2K bps... brag... brag...) as long as I stay on site. }If I dial off-site I connect through a modem pool of modems (ok, I }admit it, I do *use* some modems, but I don't have one within a 1/4 }mile of me). The phone system is all digital and under the phone sits }a little IBX<->async interface. Yes, isn't the IBX system a wonderful system? When I worked at Apple in Cupertino this past summer, I, too was hooked up to internal things at 9600 baud, as well as outside things like GEnie (and therefore AppleLink) through a direct pad to Geisco. Apple's VAX was available, as well as a bank of 1200 and another bank of 2400 baud modems. There are also ADIs (Async Data Interfaces) and Sync ones that go much faster than 9600, for things like bridging networks and so forth... I can't wait to get back and see what fun things they're doing with it! Every user of the IBX system also has voicemail now (something like 6000 people?) - slick stuff. }Five years is a lot of time. Yep, just thinking about what computing will be like then is mind-boggling. Working for A (note, I didn't say "the" but "a", implying that there will be many) company that will be right in the midst of it all is the thrill of a lifetime! } Tom Limoncelli -- Student Network Supervisor } Drew University, Box 1060, Madison NJ 07940 -- 201-408-5389 } new->> tlimonce@drunivac.Bitnet -- limonce@pilot.njin.net ----- Steve Lemke ------------------- "MS-DOS (OS/2, etc.) - just say no!" ----- Internet: steve@ivucsb.UUCP; lemke@apple.COM AppleLink: LEMKE ----- uucp: pyramid!comdesign!ivucsb!steve CompuServe: 73627,570 ----- alt.uucp: {decwrl!}sun!apple!lemke GEnie: S.Lemke ----- Quote: "What'd I go to college for?" "You had fun, didn't you?"