56K modems are not just for cottages.  I have a friend who told me about
grabbing up all the older slower modems that he could, to use in Africa.
It turns out that in some parts of third world infrastructure, the older
modems have more resilience and better error handling.  I guess that the
price is right too, if you want lots of redundancy.


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-----Original Message-----
From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of
Wayne Davis
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 11:14 PM
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: 56k ext modem

Eric Shubert wrote:
> betty wrote:
>   
>> I have two of them, but i use them at my cabin. (no high-speed up 
>> there). At any rate, i got them both at the goodwill about $2.99 
>> each, then i had to buy the serial cable for $9.99 at a real store 
>> because they never come with them.
>> I never had any luck with the PCI modi. Will look tmr in the garage 
>> and see if i have any other ext. modems hanging out in the boxes out
there.
>> betty i.
>> webcanine.com
>> information for people who care for dogs
>>     
>
> You're refreshing, Betty.
>
> I still like reminiscing about the 9600 baud modem (serial) I bought 
> new for $650 in 1990 or so. It was a steal when 9600 modems were 
> averaging closer to $800. At the time, 9600bps was tops (over POTS).
>
> Oh the daze ...
>
>   
Remember the CompuCom 14400? They used their own protocol if I remember
right. It was the cat's meow.... for about 6 months :-( Then I heard the
owner died... end of company.

I STILL have MY USR Courier V.Everything 56k. To this day, they are
still $250+ new and mine is MINT.
I keep it... just in case.

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