Brenton, at 22:14 on May 21 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

BG> Possibly because the earlier V.32bis Banksias were notoriously buggy, and
BG> the reputation stuck (not unlike Interlink, in fact).  Banksia also market
BG> an RPI modem, which is not a particularly clever move IMO.

BV> Perhaps not. BTW, have Interlink *ever* made a modem which works ?

I can't answer that from personal experience, because I was clever enough
to listen to those poor sods who bought Interlinks which didn't.  :)

BG> It'd be interesting to see how well it works in a BBS situation, but
BG> I guess it's too much to expect that you'd lend it to Paul for a week
BG> or two.  :)

BV> You guessed right.

A wise decision.  You wouldn't want it back comletely fucked, after all...

BG> That explains the yum-cha nasties, but what about NetComm and Interlink,
BG> both of whom have been making modems for so long now that they should be
BG> more than capable of writing decent controller code?

BV> ROFL...Interlink can't even design a decent case. What hope have they got ?

Whilst aesthetics aren't everything, I do take your point.

BV> Netcomm lost the plot when they became the defacto standard in Australia.

What, the de-facto standards for incompetence and unreliability, you mean?

Regards, Bill

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