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Re: Is anyone using IBM's new Multimedia Modem?

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From: alasichu
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 12:25
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In <4il06p$991@castle.nando.net>, bdorling@nando.net writes:
>In <4ihf0l$1210@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>, Dlfulle@IBM.NET (David Fuller) writes:
>>I am interested in the software that is packaged with the MMM+.
>Smith Micro Quicklink Message center for Windows. For OS/2 the modem,
>and drivers for MMPM. Modem is V.34 and Fax V.17. 

The MultiMedia Modem from IBM is NOT a functional option for OS/2 and probably
only barely so in a Dos/Windows environment. Definitely NOT recommended for
the home/office.

Some Bad design here: 

1) CANNOT handle extention phones in any reasonable manner. If you pick up an 
an extention, & it's a fax.. you lost the call. If you pick up an extention after it's 
picked up, & it's a voice.. it does NOT detect this & hang up.. it continues on in
it's merry way.

2) there are NUMEROUS difficulties with the software (quicklink) NOT working as
designed. I'm still with development team on some of these problems.

BOTTOM LINE

This is a piece of scrap that barely works in a modern world. I'm surprised it
got by any testing.

Even junky PhoneBlaster, which does NOT perform well under OS/2 handles 
extensions properly.


NO COMMENT on the Soundcard portion.


Andrey Lasichuk (alasichu@io.org)
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Subject: Re: Is anyone using IBM's new Multimedia Modem?
Date: 19 Mar 1996 12:25:06 GMT
Organization: Internex Online (io.org), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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