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From: jpr@dasys1.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Practical Peripherals 2400SA - Evaluation
Message-ID: <7995@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 30 Nov 88 03:01:16 GMT
References: <8811282004.AA13418@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: jpr@dasys1.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley)
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In article <8811282004.AA13418@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> GDAU100@BGUVM.BITNET
("Jonathan B. Owen") writes:
>As I wrote before, I recomment this 100% Hayes Compatible modem very much.
>I would say that you really get your money's worth, but since it is so
>cheap, that would be contrary to my recommendation!

I agree that this modem is a terrific buy, but I don't think that you can
say that it's "100% Hayes compatible". The synchronous mode of a Hayes
2400 is not supported. Many of the "ATS=xx" commands are not rejected by the
the Practical Peripherals 2400SA, but they also are effectively "no-ops".
Clearly you don't care about those, and I don't either. I'd say it's
compatible with a Hayes to the extent that it does everything I need done.
Buy it. Not over $180 these days in the US, I don't know about Israel.

>P.S. Are all you 2400SA owners satisfied with it's manual?

No.
Its manual is not the worst thing I've ever seen, and it doesn't say
anything wrong, but I've read it more times than I should have to, and
more times than many of the classicly terse Unix manual pages. Once you
know what it's all about, then the manual is perfectly clear. And the
index is barflegarbij.
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