Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcmi!hdr!unocss!ca063 From: ca063@unocss.UUCP (Thomas Davis) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: Practical Peripherals 2400SA - Evaluation Message-ID: <524@unocss.UUCP> Date: 29 Nov 88 18:41:32 GMT References: <8811282004.AA13418@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Organization: U. of Nebraska at Omaha Lines: 34 From article <8811282004.AA13418@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, by GDAU100@BGUVM.BITNET ("Jonathan B. Owen"): > Spencer Sun asks what the point is of storing telephone numbers in the > modem's Non-Volatile RAM. There is no point, if you don't plan to > carry it around with you and hook it up to various computers. > > 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! > > P.S. Are all you 2400SA owners satisfied with it's manual? I've owned one now for close to a year. The last 2400 BPS modem I tried was a Everex, and that was junk compared to the 2400SA. I've notice a bug in the firmware. If you are dialing out, and have call progress enable (that's where the modem says BUSY if the called number is busy), and the modem you call up answers the phone BEFORE you get a "RING" on the line, the 2400SA just hangs there. It's not locked up or anything, it just doesn't know that a modem has answered the call. Since the VAX system here at UNO loves to answer the phone that way, I've had to permantly disable that feature. As for the manual, it's lousy. But I've seen worse. At least it has an index, and documents all or most of the commands. The NVRAM I just love. DIP switches? Not one in sight. As for keeping phone numbers in NVRAM, I've finally used it when the Amiga the 2400SA went in to work, and the 2400 stayed home with the VT100. Makes it easy to dial the same number that the ol' terminal program did.. -- Internet : ca063%unocss.unl.edu@RELAY.CS.NET | Thomas Davis BitNet : conslt16@unoma1 | Consultant, Campus Computing UUCP : uunet!btni!unocss!ca063 | U. of Neb. @ Omaha, NE