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- From: tphilip@acpub.duke.edu (Thomas Philip)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.comm
- Subject: Re: mac modems with no wall adaptor needed
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 00:33:35 -0500
- Organization: Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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- In article <4g2evh$60d@azure.acsu.buffalo.edu>, millevil@acsu.buffalo.edu
- (Andrew Milleville) wrote:
-
- >Motti (srs3@crux1.cit.cornell.edu) wrote:
- >: I got a SupraExpress 144plus for my macintosh (8100) and
- >: to my surprise I found that it had no wall adaptor. Rather, it
- >: takes it power off of the ADB port.
- >
- >One that immediately springs to mind is that you only have a limited
- >number of adb ports on your mac. I don't know about you, but I only
- >have two. Since wall outlets are a whole lot cheaper than adb ports,
- >I'd much rather plug the modem into a wall.
- >
- The SupraExpress 28.8 I had looked like it had a pass-through ADB so that
- you could plug another device into the port from which the modem drew
- power. I am not sure of this, because I had the modem for less than three
- hours before returning it in favor of a SupraFAXModem 28.8. The big
- disadvantage I see with ADB powered modems is that they are not
- cross-platform compatible. While that may not matter to those staunchly
- Mac, it gives you fewer options to sell that modem when it becomes
- necessary to do so.
-
- Tom
-