On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 21:32 -0500, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > The big office supply chains (Staples, Office Depot and similar) still sell > honext-to-goodness real 56K serial modems -- usually Zoom. I suspect that > they are sold to low traffic SOHO market for FAX and answering machine > service. Back in my DOS days, I used a PCTools program that served as a phone > directory, dialer and call logger. Very convenient. Hmmm... Back when most Zoom modems were the bain of BBS Sysops. They were one of the first that required software drivers for compression. I had about three of them that I used by setting the init string to turn off compression and they would work reliably at 9600 baud. I could run more users like that, cheap SOB that I was / am. <grins> Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================
