Doug, at 10:46 on Jan 29 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

BG> Despite some of the negative comments you'll doubtless 
BG> receive here, they're actually not a bad modem at all, their 
BG> main quirk being an inherent inability to reliably detect 
BG> local dialtones, necessitating the use of X3.

DB> Mine works flawlessly here with X4. It detects busy, dialtone etc. It's an 
DB> external 1414VQE. I'd be rather peeved if it I bought an Austel approved 
DB> modem and it didn't detect Aussie tones!

You're definitely one of the lucky few then, Doug.  Of the two 1414VQEs I
used here for a while, neither would detect BUSY nor DIALTONE, but it was
little more than a minor niggle at worst.  That aside, the modems worked
just fine.

Regards, Bill

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