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From: drc@dbase.UUCP (Dennis Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Practical Peripherals 2400 baud modem (PM2400SA)
Summary: Beg to differ
Keywords: Practical Modem 2400SA is very intolerant of line noise!
Message-ID: <380@dbase.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jun 88 17:16:47 GMT
References: <1994@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Organization: Ashton Tate Development Center Glendale Cal.
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In article <1994@pt.cs.cmu.edu>, dtw@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Duane Williams) writes:
> 
> The PM2400SA modem is one of the least expensive 2400 baud modems being sold
> for the Mac.  It should be.  It doesn't work very well.  It works fine at
> 1200 baud, but who buys a 2400 baud modem to run at 1200.  At 2400 baud this
> modem is intolerant of line noise.  I would recommend that people AVOID THIS
> MODEM.

I beg to differ with this assumption.  I own a PM2400SA modem and use it to
talk to Compu$erve, GEnie, our Pyramid, and a number of local BBSs and have
found it to work extremely well for the three months that I've had it.  I had
a Hayes 1200 before (still do, on the shelf) and it was no more tolerant of
line noise at 1200 than the PM is at 2400.  If you have noise, it will correct
where it can, but usually it can't -- the Hayes couldn't either.  Noisy lines
send garbage on occasion, the modem isn't going to solve that.

Dennis Cohen
Ashton-Tate Macintosh Division
dBASE Mac Development Team
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Disclaimer:  Any opinions expressed above are _MINE_!