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- From: pirzyk@vinny.cecer.army.mil (Jim Pirzyk)
- Subject: Re: Question about Gateway modem vs Boca Modem
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- Organization: US Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Labs
- References: <1992Dec30.093406@mycro.UUCP> <1ht1ksINNbgj@uwm.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 21:36:41 GMT
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- In <1ht1ksINNbgj@uwm.edu> gwc@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Greg F Walz Chojnacki) writes:
-
- >From article <1992Dec30.093406@mycro.UUCP>, by scott@mycro.UUCP (Scott C. Sadow):
- >>
- >> I am looking at buying a 14.4 modem, and have narrowed it down to
- >> either the modem from Gateway or a Boca Research modem. Both are about
- >> $200. The Gateway has the advantage of being from Gateway - I have had
- >> very good luck with them. (I know about the first release of the modem -
- >> it had problems and was recalled. I recall reading that the newest version
- >> is good, though) The Boca modem is from the same people who made my VGA
- >> card (1024x768x256, tseng 4000) and have not had any problems with it, nor
- >> has anyone in my office.
- >>
- >There was some discussion about modems a couple of weeks ago. About the only
- >thing I remember is that the BOCA lacked a UART. I can't tell you what the
- >practical consequence of that is (can someone, please?). However, I bought
- >a used Boca 14.4 Kbaud FAX/modem and so far, no complaints.
-
- >Greg
-
- >P.S. A summary would be most welcome.
-
-
- I have dealt with the BOCA 14.4 modems also. The problem that we ran into
- is that they could not connect to another BOCA 14.4 modem. We called BOCA
- about it and they had no idea what the problem was. We could connect to
- their modems but they only stated that they were "equivalent". We decided
- that they were not using the same modem, and we wound up returning the modems.
-
- - Jim
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- [Jim] pirzyk@uiuc.edu ------------------------------------------
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