From: utzoo!decvax!ittvax!swatt Newsgroups: net.news Title: Re: 2400 baud modems Article-I.D.: ittvax.401 Posted: Wed Aug 4 18:46:50 1982 Received: Thu Aug 5 05:09:00 1982 References: cbosgd.2488 Regarding new Vadic 2400 baud modems for key network nodes: Unless I miss my bet, you'd have to get their autodialer to go with it, which costs $600, their rs232-to-831 adapter, which costs another $500 (I may have these prices reversed, but I know the combo goes for ~$1100), and then the rack and power supplies, or another $800. Total first buy-in price would be: $1900 + 2 X $2000 == $5900. We have a rack of 3467's (answer-only) but use two standalone DF03's for dialout. Perhaps the $2000 kicker for the 2nd modem would encourage someone to come up with a really elegant solution to the problem of trying to use the same port for both answer and originate. The other problem, at least for us, is that the phone bills are paid out of some larger organizational budget, which I don't see, but we sure as hell have to sweat for every capital equipment dollar we want to spend. Anybody have any experience with these? - Alan S. Watt decvax!ittvax!swatt