Macwarehouse 99Dollar Modem

Date: Tue, 23 Nov 93 18:04:57 -0500 From: wse@server1.dfci.harvard.edu (William Edwards) Subject: $99 14.4 KB MacWarehouse FAX modem SUMMARY Thanks *very* much to all who responded. Attached please find all the messages that I have received so far. Reviews were so positive that I called in my order, but MacWarehouse is back-ordered. -- Bill Edwards ---CUT HERE------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1993 01:09:48 -0600 To: wse@jimmy.harvard.edu From: grhowes@students.wisc.edu (Glenn R. Howes) Subject: RE: $99 14.4 KB modem from MacWarehouse William, Yes, it is real, I'm using it right now over a SLIP connection, and I've used it with various CTB applications--mostly SITcomm--with little trouble. Someone has already gone to the trouble of compiling a FAQ on this modem which has been posted on comp.sys.mac.comm; look for it. =============================================================== Glenn R. Howes \\ grhowes@students.wisc.edu Hometown: FrostBite Falls, MN Date: 23 Nov 1993 09:17:03 -0500 (EST) From: "Andrew M. Sopchak" <SOPCHAKA@VAX.CS.HSCSYR.EDU> Subject: $99 modem To: wse@jimmy.harvard.edu X-Vms-To: IN%"wse@server1.dfci.harvard.edu" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT William, Yes indeed it sounds too good to be true. However, it seems that it isn't. I have two of the modems in use. They connect flawlessly every time at 14.4. I have called one of them from home with my Courier Dual Standard modem (bought several years ago at the bargain price of ~$700!) and connected flawlessly at 9600b (fastest my modem will go). I have not tried the fax part yet but have read online that it also works very well. Andrew Sopchak Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1993 09:23:56 -0500 From: olive@edmmav00.us.dg.com (Rocky Olive) To: wse@jimmy.harvard.edu Subject: $99 modem I bought this modem when I first saw it, and it works fine. It comes with a high speed modem cable, and MAcknowledge (useless) and AccuWeather (also useless). I use it with ZTerm and PacerLink software and it works fine. Word is, you can also use it for faxing if you have some existing fax s/w. It supports v32.bis (for 14.4k) and v42.bis (compression). Once in a while it goes off hook when the s/w tries to initialize it, but it's seldom enough that I don't mind trying again. Rocky Olive <olive@suzuki.us.dg.com> (919) 387-5392 Data General Corporation fax: (919) 387-1252 Apex, NC 27502 USA Subject: $99 modem from MacWarehouse From: ELOISE@maine.harvard.edu (Eloise Kleban) To: wse@jimmy.harvard.edu Date: Tue, 23 Nov 93 12:01:31 EST My daughter and I both own this modem, and I have suggested it to several other people. All my own experiences and the feedback I have received from others is positive. However, none of us make extremely heavy use of the modem, nor are we travellers or otherwise subject the thing to stress. Also none of us wants …