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echo: suprafax
to: CRAIG JOHNSON
from: PHIL ROBERTS
date: 1997-04-08 03:08:00
subject: Remote modem monitoring

-=[ Quoting Craig Johnson to Bill Reyna ]=-
 >>>I wish, I could remove the LED display mount it where the system case 
ogo
 >>>is stuck and have a "pretty interesting" frt. panel. For that matter why 

 >Yeah, that would work. But when you think about it, it would seem so easy
 >to offer a detachable modem led display for ext. mounting from the vendor.
 CJ> For an external modem, the display is fine where it is.
 CJ> It's those people who bought or were otherwise "stuck" with internal
 CJ> modems  that a wired display module would be most feasable.
 CJ> Most computer cases already have a fairly standard cut-out and window
 CJ> for  the CPU clock display - which many manufacturers consider
 CJ> "optional extras"  thus leaving the window empty. A modem display like
 CJ> Supra's two-character  one would fit PERFECTLY in such an opening.
 CJ> Maybe Supra could sell these  with future internal modems as an "extra"
 CJ> and charge fifteen bucks or so for  it. You never know what's happening
 CJ> with an internal modem now, with no way  to monitor them.
This has been done before on the Apple // platform.  I think the company
who had the internals with external LED panels was Advanced Engineering.
                                Phil
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