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- From: zeke@fasttech.uucp (Bohdan Tashchuk)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Telebit prices vs. Hayes prices
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.222755.17594@fasttech.uucp>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 22:27:55 GMT
- Article-I.D.: fasttech.1992Jul22.222755.17594
- References: <Brp6vG.GtL@jwt.UUCP>
- Organization: Fast Technology
- Lines: 17
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- In article <Brp6vG.GtL@jwt.UUCP> john@jwt.UUCP (John Temples) writes:
- >Note that the WorldBlazer uses TIES, while the T3000 doesn't. Or
- >perhaps it now does -- My T3000 from last year used the Hayes-style
- >guard time, which was replaced by TIES in the WorldBlazer upgrade.
- >It's documented on the last page of the WB addendum. I called tech
- >support asking why (before I noticed it in the manual) and was told
- >"we're trying to get out of paying Hayes."
-
- If only Telebit could save enough money by using TIES that I could buy a
- Telebit V32bis modem (eg T3000) for less money than I can buy a Hayes V32bis
- modem (eg OPTIMA 144).
-
- Still, at least ONE PERSON at Telebit took Marketing 101. PC Magazine just made
- the QBlazer modem Editor's Choice. SOMEONE made the intelligent decision that,
- given this free publicity, they might be able to sell thousands of modems at
- $299, rather than dozens at the "list" price of $599. (Probably alienates their
- remaining dealer network yet again, though.)
-