🚀 go-pugleaf

    Some of you may recall some postings about cheap modems a while back,
so heres a followup for all of you waiting with baited breath....  I ordered
the Atari 830 and telelink cartridge from Atari for $25.  It arrived a few
days ago, and I've tested it with an Atari and 850 interface, and a normal
terminal--it works as advertised.  300 baud is kind of slow, but for the price,
I'm not one to complain.
    About the modem: it's acoustic, 300 baud, brainless (you have to set
switches for originate/answer, full and half duplex), has it's own power
supply, and comes with a cable to connect the rs232 on the modem to the
serial on an 850.  The rs232 must be normal because I used a HP plotter
cable to connect it to a wyse terminal, and had no problems.  Rumor has
it that the modem is a Novation in an Atari box....  I also got an hour
of Compuserve, Dow Jones, and the Source free [doubt that I'll use them,
though].
    I'm not sure if Atari still has any, but for the price, it would be
worth finding out (if you need a modem, of course).  There was an 3 page ad
in Analog about 2 months back.
    Hope somebody has some use for this....  BTW, allow a few extra weeks
for delivery--they said about 6, and it took 8.

Patrick Madden, at a dusty terminal in a dusty town in a dusty state....
     And now with a dusty modem.
!cmcl2!lanl!unmc!nmtvax!pickle | "And through the wire
!ucbvax!unmvax!nmtvax!pickle   |  I see your face."
PS: Thanx to Mr. Hartman for the modem tutorials, Fun Eddy for the 850 and
manual, and Ray for the cable and implements of destruction.