Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 20:24:42 +0700
From: "Ronald C.Dailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Timeout Expired
On 2000-07-01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
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>Ron:
>I can't recall that USR made 9600 bps Sportsters. That doesn't
>mean I think they didn't. There were a fair number of 2400 bps
>modems with MNP during the mid-80s. I have a Practical Peripherals
>2400 bps modem from that period with NNP.
>Walter Scott
My friend bought an Everex external 2400 with MNP, but the earlier 2400
bps modems, such as the Hayes Smartmodem 2400 internal from the early
1980s (prob. around 1981-2) didn't have any form of error correction and
cost a whole lot more than any Zoom ever made <g>. I still have a
CompuCom Speedmodem 9600 that is basically a 2400 bps modem with MNP2-4,
MNP5, and the CSC protocol that would talk to another modem of the same
type at 9600. However, Compucom was late to the game, having brought
out the Speedmodem around 1990.
Microcom made the first MNP modems, of course, since they owned the
protocol at the time. Compaq bought Microcom a few years back and they
own the rights to MNP. I don't think there were many MNP modems before
1985, if any, but if there were, they were probably really expensive.
Practical Peripherals was an independent company at that time, as I
recall, and had a good reputation. They are all gone now, except for
the name of Hayes being used by Zoom on some new products.
USR started using error correction pretty early, but USR modems weren't
cheap at all, especially Courier models. They were way out of my price
range at the time <g>.
Ronald Dailey
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