🚀 go-pugleaf

After hearing all of the horror stories about Telebit (which have since
turned pleasant), I fugured it was finally time to spring for my own LPA
Worldblazer upgrade.

I called 1-800-TELEBIT. The friendly but unhelpful voice at the other
end said the LPA program ended the end of June and anyone who had tried
to order since then has been SOL.

Is this is true? If so, I'll hang onto my (t)rusty dark-grey case
Trailblazer, and save my money for when the modem cloners like ATI
and Cardinal come out with cheap V.32bis. After all, I'd be able to talk
V.32bis to all my UUCP neighbours who sank their money into Worldblazers
anyway.

If the operator was wrong, and LPA is still in effect, who do I talk to.
And even then, I still wonder if I should bother.

I was told that even under LPA, the price of a Worldblazer is $650US
(>$750CDN) plus shipping. That makes the savings one gets from LPA less
than $100 compared to the prices below.

Is it all worth it? Now that some of you have actually been trying it
out, does that extra money really buy a phenominal increase in UUCP
throughput? If not, I'd rather put my money into more disk or better
graphics. I like to think I'm not one for bandwagons unless they've
got a proven value.

FYI, here's $CDN dealer prices for some selected high-speed modems (from
some of my suppliers' catalogues):

Telebit Worldblazer		885
Telebit T3000			779
Telebit T2500			779
USRobotics V.32bis		682
Telebit Trailblazer		656
ATI V.32			393
USRobotics V.32			342
Cardinal V.32			295

quite a range...
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 Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software Ltd., located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
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