Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ispi!jbayer
From: jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Modem Advice Sought
Message-ID: <469@ispi.UUCP>
Date: 23 Feb 89 15:41:25 GMT
References: <1385@agora.UUCP>
Reply-To: jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer)
Organization: Intelligent Software Products, Inc.
Lines: 29

In article <1385@agora.UUCP> john@agora.UUCP (John Cavanaugh) writes:

}  Hi.  I need some advice about modems.  I am currently running a bbs on 
}my Dell System 200 and have a 2400 baud modem for it.  I am in the process 
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}  To combat this, I am thinking about buying either a HST or Trailblazer so
}I can do all my communications stuff at high speed thereby cutting down on
}the time I am actually on the phone.  The problem I have been having in
}deciding what to do has been that, if I buy a Trailblazer, I can talk to
}the Unix world (Uunet or one of my friends who have Trailblazers and Unix)
}but have problems on my BBS end because the high speed modems that they
}use are almost exclusively HST's.  On the other hand, if I get an HST to
}talk to my BBS connections, I can't talk to the Trailblazers.


Get a Trailblazer.  They will be coming out with a V.32 upgrade soon. 
The advantage to a Trailblazer is that it is upgradable, and after the
upgrade it will be compatible with both Trailblazers and HST.  Do not
get the T-1000 since it is not upgradable.


JB

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