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From: bruceki@microsoft.UUCP (Bruce King)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Datatronic 2400 Baud Modem - anybody heard of it ?
Summary: datatronic modems
Keywords: Datatronic 2400 information request
Message-ID: <9524@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 89 23:21:16 GMT
References: <1742@gmdzi.UUCP>
Reply-To: bruceki@microsoft.UUCP (Bruce King)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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  I've used datatronic 2400s on a multiuser system I run here in Seattle.
They took calls for 24 hours a day for around a year, and then decided that
they would randomly crash.  they fixed themselves after being turned on
and off, but it was irritating to have to do this for a bank of modems.
  They seemed compatible with virtually everything; never had any problems
with people unable to connect to them from any less-than-5-year-old modem.

  This is heavy duty use, far above what most individuals will put their
modems through, but it was consistent with the entire batch of 8 modems.
I'd say that they got 30,000 hours of use before starting this reset-requiring
behavior.  
  We buy them for around $100 in the US, with 110volt power supplies.  The
internal IBM PC type 2400 baud datatronics are cheaper.  $89.  Those're 
dealer prices.  Retail here is between $150 and $199.  So $179 is in
the ballpark.