[Coco] RiBBS

[Joel Ewy]

Neil Morrison wrote:
> I mostly bought them for use - paid $100 for a 300 baud acoustic
> coupler from RS - reduced from $300.
>
> I bought a couple of the 300 baud ones with the 4 pin Coco DIN when RS
> blew them out for $10 ea.
>
> Now you can buy 56000 PCI fax modems for less than $10!
>
>   
Yeah, but they're brain-dead Winders-only pieces of junk.  Check prices
on real, honest-to-goodness hardware 56K modems, and they're nowhere
near that cheap if you can find one at all.  Sometimes you can find a
used one for a pretty good price.  I'm always on the lookout for good
56K hardware modems to put in used systems with Ubuntu installed.  I
can't abide those Winmodems.  :)

But your point about getting more speed for less money is well taken.

JCE
> Neil
>
> On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Ron Bihler <rbihler at msn.com> wrote:
>   
>> Humm,
>> I guess there is an exception to ever comment  (Grin).  I remember on the
>> first BBS I ran I converted one of the old RS modems to be auto answer as
>> the Autoanswer ones where too expensive.
>> One of the old ones was 110 Baud I think.
>>
>> Ron
>>     
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