18 Aug
2012
18 Aug
'12
12:01 a.m.
On 17 Aug 2012 at 16:25, Fred Cisin wrote:
Somewhere, I have a couple of Coutriers, but I need to
look for them.
This POS doesn't have a REAL serial port. Q: do USB to serial adapters
work? well enough for modems?
It might--I use one as a convenient connection to debugging projects
that use RS232 for output. I don't know how well they work with
hardware (RTS/CTS) handshaking, however.
I got rid of the Sportsters that I had--worthless pieces of garbage.
One common problem was overheating. I still have the original HST
Dual Standard that I started with--it works fine. I've got a Courier
V.34 that's been upgraded as well as the V.Everything. I also have a
Zoom 56K and a Hayes Optima "business modem" that I think tops out at
33.6K (Hayes promised upgrades to 56K, but realized that they
couldn't do it without swapping the entire modem. They were in
Chapter 11 at the time and simply weaseled out of the promise).
It was right around then that consumer-level modems started to get
really trashy.
I have no idea why I'm hanging on to these things.
--Chuck