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Re: 755CX first impressions (1.2 gig, 28.8modem?)



At 09:35 PM 5/17/95 -0400, Robert Dewar wrote:
>I picked up a 755CX yesterday with the SVGA screen. The screen is very
>nice, fully comparable to the previous screens, but the extra resolution
>really helps readability, and you can get significantly more on the screen.

Thanks for the report!  I'm dying to get hold of one, but I really want to
wait for the 1.2 gig drive that is supposed to come out at the end of this
month (anyone know more about that?  I called ibm direct and they hadn't
heard of it).

I was wondering about the readability, with small fonts and such, glad to
hear it looks good.

[...]
>[today, I ran the CX continuously in high power mode, doing lots of
>diskete and disk IO, I have 40 megs memory total, and the battery
>lasted 3 hours 15 minutes). So the pubvlished specs, which show a

Fantastic!

>The MWave modem works fine, but I had to get a special 4 page FAX
>from the help center to tell me exactly how to get it to work. By
>the way, I was tremendously impressed by those guys, they are
>very sharp and really work hard to assist.

I remember hearing somewhere that there's a software upgrade to bring the
mwave modem to 28.8, can anyone confirm?

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