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From: mikes@ncoast.UUCP (Mike Squires)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: USR HST/IX and HST/V.32 modems
Keywords: not Telebit compatible
Message-ID: <13215@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 6 Dec 88 04:50:05 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, OH
Lines: 34

I called USR tech support today and got the following information from the
person who answered (if this is wrong then it's not my fault :-) ):

1.  The HST/IX is not TB compatible; it consists of a HST with software to
    make it more usable with UNIX.  

    One can apparently trade a TB modem plus $795 for a USR 9600 modem.
    There was a rumor at COMDEX that they were trading one-for-one but that
    seems to be false (too good to be true, if you wanted a USR).

2.  The HST/V.32 dual mode modem costs $725 to BBS sysops.  The cost of
    of upgrading a HST to the dual mode is $795 plus the old modem.  There
    was no special discount price for sysops currently using the HST.

    (This differs slightly from what I was told by another person on the same
    line earlier this year; he said that there was no need for a 300 bps to
    450 bps backchannel upgrade as there would soon be a major upgrade out
    that could be retrofitted to the HST.  They changed their minds, I suppose.)

The upshot is that I have gone ahead and ordered a HST/V.32 dual mode modem 
under the sysop deal.  I have yet to run into another HST modem used on a 
UNIX/XENIX system, however; HST's seem to be concentrated among microcomputer
owners and the BBS operators that serve that group.

The USR BBS is at 1-213-459-7231.  I have used the HST 9600 with one BBS
system for about a year and have had no problems.


Mike Squires Allegheny College Meadville, PA 16335 814 724 3360
uucp: ..!cwjcc!ncoast!{mikes,peng!sir-alan!mikes} or ..!pitt!sir-alan!mikes
BITNET: mikes%sir-alan@pitt.UUCP (VAX) MIKES AT SIR-ALAN!PITT.UUCP (IBM)
Internet: sir-alan!mikes@vax.cs.pittsburgh.edu
BBS: 814 333 6728 (1200/2400) 814 337 0894 TB+ 2400/FAST/1200
(where is the HST? On the home system at 814 337 3159)