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Just passing this interesting tidbit along... >Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 03:49:42 -0800 >X-Sender: joel@mercury.sfsu.edu (Unverified) >To: ibm-tp500@virginia.edu >From: Joel Salmeron i Viver <joel@mercury.sfsu.edu> >Subject: Re: modem price update >Content-Length: 1026 > >> >>I'm passing this along from the most recent Insight (800-488-0004) >>catalog to inform and invite comments: USR Sportster V.34 PCMCIA >>Modem for $269. The only thing close to this price at this speed >>I've heard about is the TDK (Microcom manufactured) modem sporadically >>available from one particular store in CA. One detail that would be >>interesting for comparison would be cellular compatibility of the TDK >>(the USR has none). I'd be interested in any reasons this might not >>be the fab. deal it appears to be. >> > >bought a tdk df2814 a while back. works great. i use the parallel driver >(windows only) supplied (req. enabler but a new driver is about to be >released which does not require it) and it works perfectly (modem is >essentially a microcom deskporte fast). ibm's easyplaying autodrv >configures the card ok. mnp10 acp is there, but i have no idea how it works >with cellular phones though. free upgrade to v34. 5 year warranty. the >store being refered is nca (800) 961.12.00. got it for $299. > >Joel > > > --- Sean Chou / schou@uiuc.edu / CompuServe 73672,2111