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Re: [SLE] modem recommendations
- From: H du Plooy <linuser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 02:14:20 +0200
- Message-id: <1065140059.9555.0.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 01:59, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> * H du Plooy <linuser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [10-02-03 17:13]:
> > On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 11:15, lee wrote:
> > > Yes, and those couriers are available on E-Bay for less than $50
> > > most of the time..that's a $300 modem folks...
> >
> > Excuse my ignorance, I've never heard of these. What makes them so
> > special? Or are we not talking 56k dial-up now?
>
> Couriers are USRobotics Modems. I have five sitting on the shelf, one
> is an HST. I may even still have an audio 300 baud around somewhere.
But why are they so expensive? At $300 they've got to be very very cool
Hans
> * H du Plooy <linuser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [10-02-03 17:13]:
> > On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 11:15, lee wrote:
> > > Yes, and those couriers are available on E-Bay for less than $50
> > > most of the time..that's a $300 modem folks...
> >
> > Excuse my ignorance, I've never heard of these. What makes them so
> > special? Or are we not talking 56k dial-up now?
>
> Couriers are USRobotics Modems. I have five sitting on the shelf, one
> is an HST. I may even still have an audio 300 baud around somewhere.
But why are they so expensive? At $300 they've got to be very very cool
Hans
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