23 Apr
2012
23 Apr
'12
10:33 a.m.
On 4/23/2012 1:06 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 23 Apr 2012 at 10:51, Keith Monahan wrote:
I forgot about the LCD-configured Motorola modems. They were built like
brick shithouses and while very expensive -- they were also reliable and
perfect for "dumb" devices that could not dial. They could do DTR-based
dialing etc. They were heavy and took up a lot of space, but I liked them.
I seem to remember the original Hayes modems being pretty good products
too.
Keith
USR was *the* modem company for a long time. I
loved their products.
Well, that's a distinction that was passed around for years. The
distinction used to belong to AT&T/WE modems, then Anderson-Jacobson,
Milgo, Racal-Vadic. By the time you hit the late 70's, there were
various modems-du-jour. Telebit, Motorola, Hayes... I used a Racal-
Vadic 3451 triple modem for quite some time. But modems of that time
were extremely dumb--so they tended to work forever if designed
correctly.