BG> Keith, at 19:58 on May 21 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

KR> what is rpi? a yum cha company?

BG> Nope, it's "Rockwell Protocol Interface", and these modems are cheap
BG> because they have no error correction (bit-stripping) in hardware. 
BG> You have to use the supplied software if you want EC, and it's as
BG> inefficient as buggery.  Zoom were one of the first to use that
BG> chipset, and Banksia have also done it here.

KR> yes i saw something like that in the states. i thought that they were 
KR> intel, using the cpu to do the work. 

 BG> Without the EC in software, the modem is still doing all the work.

KR> intel are pushing that line, to sell faster and faster cpus presumably. 

 BG> Intel make their own modems (and they're not too bad, either), so I'd
 BG> be very surprised if they were flogging RPI modems too. 
 BG> Technologically, it's a hell of a retrograde step, and quite
 BG> unforgivable IMO.

they called theirs nsp (native signal processing) i think that the modem
was just the analogue circuits, plus some sort of modulator, the cpu
providing all the smarts, the protocol, ecc etc. intel say that this makes
the modem much more flexible as any new protocols can be incorporated as
software.

KR> most of the stuff was cheaper, but not enough to really bother about, i 
KR> found though that the cartridges for my stylus colour were $us32 as against 
KR> $a90, and an hp flatbed scanner for $us450 were too good to go past.

 BG> Bloody hell, are these the SO20049 colour cartridges which my Stylus
 BG> ColorIIs uses, and which I can buy locally for A$48 ?  BTW, have you
 BG> tried using refills yet ?  I'm tempted (especially at the price), but
 BG> after completly fucking my Canon's print head and purge unit with
 BG> non-standard ink, I'm a bit loath to do the same thing to my Epson.

no the stylus colour uses an s020034 black cart and an s020036 colour cart,
same as the sylus pro. i think that calling your model stylus colour 2 is a
bit of a marketing exercise as the original stylus colour has more in
common with the pro than the 2. i haven't tried refilling, i have thought
about it, there is a mob from noosa that advertise in apc, but so far i
have got all i need from the usa at an acceptable price. a set of
cartridges seem to last me about 6 months. the first lot ran the black and
colour carts out simultaneously, but although i replaced the black unit
about a month ago the current colour one is still going.

                          keith
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