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From: gino@voder.UUCP (Gino Bloch)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Cheap 1200 baud modems
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Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 20:17:42 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 11 20:17:42 1985
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> Cermetek is advertising their 1200/300 baud modems in BYTE for the low
> price of $199 (stand-alone) and $149 (IBM PC board).  These are the
> INFOMATE 199SA and INFOMATE 212PC respectively.
> 
> Has anyone had any experience with these modems?  Are they Hayes
> compatible? (the ad says "Crosstalk software compatible").  Thanks for
> your help.
They are NOT Hayes-compatible.  They tell you how to modify defaults in
Crosstalk XVI to teach it the Cermetek commands.  You can often use manual
commands to accomplish your goals, of course.  I just got the PC model
for my Compaq.  It seems to work OK (stable etc), and the terminal emulator
I use lets me specify the dial command (or do it from the keyboard).
If you use a S/W package that must send Hayes commands and can't be patched
(is that an oxymoron?), you might be unhappy.  I'm satisfied, though.
BTW, their free terminal S/W is a dumb terminal (but maybe their documentation
is confusing me in that regard).
-- 
Gene E. Bloch (...!nsc!voder!gino)
The opinions expressed above are accidents.