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- From: phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin)
- Subject: Re: The "high price" of the HP48!
- In-Reply-To: anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu's message of 2 Jan 1993 07:13:00 GMT
- Message-ID: <PHR.93Jan2015827@napa.telebit.com>
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- Organization: Telebit Corporation; Sunnyvale, CA, USA
- References: <PHR.92Dec31125342@napa.telebit.com> <1i28i0INNsqe@uwm.edu>
- <PHR.93Jan1222032@napa.telebit.com> <1i3f9sINN4dn@uwm.edu>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 09:58:27 GMT
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- In article <1i3f9sINN4dn@uwm.edu> anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber) writes:
-
- >From what I understand, that modem (New Media) needs some weird
- >proprietary software driver instead of looking like a serial port.
- >They are secretive about how to program it which means you are
- >screwed if you want to flush DOS. Also, I believe it needs an
-
- Yep, New Media specifically told me that their interface is proprietary
- and they will keep it a secret. There is a possibility of it being
- opened in the future, but I was told not to count on it.
- It also means that UUCP, SLIP/PPP, etc. will probably be impossible,
- and you'll be stuck with whatever terminal emulator they put on the
- card.
-
- I would refuse to buy such a modem even if I didn't intend to run
- slip, etc.
-
- >external phone connector. If I'm going to spend a bundle on a
- >card modem, I want it to have v32bis and a built in phone jack.
- >As far as I know, these are only available in type II cards.
-
- The HP-95LX apparently does have a Type II cavity. However, the only
- internal jack I know of, the "X-jack", is patented by Megahertz, so you
- probably won't see that on anyone else's modems. Considering the
- breadth of patents these days you may not see any kind of fold out
- RJ-11 on a PCMCIA card. Maybe the card attachment is rigid enough
- for a module rather than a pigtail cable?
-
- I have had two Megahertz modems in the past and been quite happy
- with them, so I guess I'd buy another (Telebit doesn't make any PCMCIA
- modems at the moment). I wouldn't want to use any kind of external
- attachment: it's another kludge that I'd lose or leave at home.
- What I heard about the 95LX is that you can squeeze in type II cards
- but it wasn't intended for that. Also, it's PCMCIA 1.0 and I think
- most card modems need PCMCIA 2.0. Supposedly, a 386SL-based
- successor to the 95LX is coming soon, so we'll see what develops.
-