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In <1ht1ksINNbgj@uwm.edu> gwc@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Greg F Walz Chojnacki) writes:

>From article <1992Dec30.093406@mycro.UUCP>, by scott@mycro.UUCP (Scott C. Sadow):
>> 
>>    I am looking at buying a 14.4 modem, and have narrowed it down to
>> either the modem from Gateway or a Boca Research modem. Both are about
>> $200. The Gateway has the advantage of being from Gateway - I have had
>> very good luck with them. (I know about the first release of the modem -
>> it had problems and was recalled. I recall reading that the newest version
>> is good, though)  The Boca modem is from the same people who made my VGA
>> card (1024x768x256, tseng 4000) and have not had any problems with it, nor
>> has anyone in my office.
>>
>There was some discussion about modems a couple of weeks ago. About the only
>thing I remember is that the BOCA lacked a UART. I can't tell you what the
>practical consequence of that is (can someone, please?).  However, I bought
>a used Boca 14.4 Kbaud FAX/modem and so far, no complaints.

>Greg

>P.S. A summary would be most welcome.


I have dealt with the BOCA 14.4 modems also.  The problem that we ran into
is that they could not connect to another BOCA 14.4 modem.  We called BOCA
about it and they had no idea what the problem was.  We could connect to
their modems but they only stated that they were "equivalent".  We decided
that they were not using the same modem, and we wound up returning the modems.

- Jim
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