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- From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Best price on USRobotics Courier v.everything ??
- Date: 3 Jan 1996 23:44:28 GMT
- Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY
- Message-ID: <4cf4cs$8vu@useneta1.news.prodigy.com>
- References: <4cdem2$22a@horus.infinet.com>
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- Originator: davidsen@darkstar.prodigy.com
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- In article <4cdem2$22a@horus.infinet.com>,
- Howard Boertlein <howardb@infinet.com> wrote:
-
- | I'm looking to purchase two internal modems (or external if some one can convince
- | me that the external modem is better).
-
- External modems:
- 1. can be power cycled if needed
- 2. can be used with your next computer
- 3. can be used with someone else's computer (sale/loan/demo)
- 4. have real blinking lights which don't stop if your computer hangs
- 5. are much better at stopping phone line surges (NOT perfect)
- 6. don't take up a bus slot
- 7. don't create more heat inside your computer
-
- Internal modems:
- 1. usually cost less
- 2. can produce higher transfer speeds for atypical data (but usually don't)
- 3. don't have a separate power supply to fail
- --
- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
- I will support laws and technology which limit what you are allowed
- to hear, if you will oppose laws and technology limiting what I am
- allowed to say.
-