Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pcrat!rick
From: rick@pcrat.uucp (Rick Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Hayes Personal Modem
Message-ID: <1989Sep28.060135.5387@pcrat.uucp>
Date: 28 Sep 89 06:01:35 GMT
References: <8909251753.AA07651@issm.iss.contel.com> <1137@msa3b.UUCP>
Reply-To: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Organization: PC Research, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ
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In article <1137@msa3b.UUCP> kevin@msa3b.UUCP (Kevin P. Kleinfelter) writes:
>The Personal Modem hangs from the wall (the power-supply and modem are
>in the same box).  It contains a subset of the commands of the
>regular modems.  I think it is 1200 baud.
>
>Prodigy works much nicer at 2400.

I found Prodigy to be *very* tiresome, even at 2400 baud.
My subscription is about to run out, and I'm not going to renew.

Speed problems aside, Prodigy also completely lacks any modem
configuration file.  It was a total pain to set up, say, a Telebit
to operate with the Prodigy software.  Then, after you use
Prodigy, you have to undo all the changes (about a dozen registers
need changing) in order to restore a Telebit to sanity for UUCP.  And
if the modem cannot be put into a Hayes compatible mode (like my old
AT&T 2400 baud modem) you can completely forget using Prodigy.

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