From: utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!utah-cs!sask!hssg40!peachey
Newsgroups: net.dcom
Title: Hayes Smartmodem kudos
Article-I.D.: hssg40.225
Posted: Tue Nov 16 11:51:41 1982
Received: Thu Nov 18 01:44:51 1982
References: fluke.340,genradbo.690

Since so many people are so upset by the RV3451 modem, and in view of
the Hayes Smartmodem 1200 query, I thought this might be the time
to make appreciative remarks about the Hayes Smartmodem.  Unfortunately,
I only have experience with the 300 Baud Smartmodem, not the new
Smartmodem 1200.  But if the 1200 takes after its little brother, it
should be very nice to work with.

Despite (or possibly because of) being a "hobby grade" piece of
equipment, our Smartmodem is extremely reliable.  It is also very
flexible, and seems to have all the options you could want.
We dial out through a PBX, and dial into a site with a Develcon
Dataswitch (sometimes), so we need as much flexibility as we
can get.

In order to use it, we added a few lines of code to the "conn.c"
source file of the uucico program.  No other changes were required
to ANYTHING.  (Mail to me for details if you want them.)

Best of all, the Smartmodem is ** CHEAP **, even in Canada (and
that's saying a lot).

We spent a total of about four hours installing and testing the
modem and modifying the software.  It is a pleasant change to
have a piece of equipment in "production" use the day you
purchase it!

			Darwyn Peachey
		(...!harpo!utah-cs!sask!hssg40!peachey)