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- From: goykhman_a@apollo.hp.com (Alex Goykhman)
- Subject: Re: Summary of prices... (PPI, in particular)
- Sender: usenet@apollo.hp.com (Usenet News)
- Message-ID: <BtnM4B.Ann@apollo.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 18:02:34 GMT
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- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Chelmsford, MA
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- In article <Aug.26.18.57.33.1992.13741@pilot.njin.net> birchall@pilot.njin.net (Shag) writes:
- >gtoal@cursci.co.uk (Graham Toal) writes:
- >
- >>If anyone wants to update this with better prices and more modems,
- >>please do.
- >
- >>Practical P. 405 Action
- >
- >I got my PM14400FXSA from PC Connection for $399 +shipping, back when it was
- >so new most folks thought it was vapourware. I can't really see the prices
- >going _up_, unless demand's been really high.
- >
- >>(The only personal experience I've had of any of these is: twincom - worked
- >>fine every day since I got it 6 months ago. Dallas - dead within a week.
- >>Can't vouch for any of the others.)
- >
- >I can vouch for the Practical Peripherals... mine's worked flawlessly since
- >early June in modem mode.
-
- Mine hangs all the time during ZMODEM downloads (from Channel 1, Cambridge,MA)
- both with Telix 3.15 and Robocomm 4.2. Tt appears to work with WINQVT, but
- I can't figure out why...
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- Stay away from PM14400FXSA.
-
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