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From: jcb@loral.UUCP (Jay Bowden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: modem advice/ external advantages
Message-ID: <2055@loral.UUCP>
Date: 13 May 89 12:42:25 GMT
References: <964@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu> <13801@steinmetz.ge.com>
Reply-To: jcb@loral.UUCP (Jay Bowden)
Organization: Loral Instrumentation, San Diego
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In article <964@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu> gupta@bach.csg.uiuc.edu.UUCP (Aloke Gupta) writes:
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| 	Questions: 1. What are the advantages of an internal modem apart from
| 		      the convenience of having no extra wires etc. Are they
| 		      more / less reliable than external modems ?

An external modem can be ON (to answer other modem calls) even when the
the computer is OFF.  Then a gadget like MR. MOX can turn the PC on only
when a modem call is received.  Not something a lot of people need to
do, but if you need it, you need it.

- Jay

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