David, at 06:58 on Mar 18 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

DD>> AT&V (what sort of a command is that?)

BG> I think you'll find that he knows this, Dave.  It's called 
BG> "taking the piss".

DD> I'm shocked that you would even think that I would do such a thing . . .

Enough of the false outrage already.  It simply doesn't work.  :)

BG> He knows this too Dave, as his previous modem (before the Courier) was 
BG> actually a 12000bps M5 NetComm.  No accounting for taste, is there?  :)

DD> It was a 9600bps M5 - one of the earlier ones.  It could have been upgraded 
DD> later to 12000bps with a $1000 mother board upgrade.  It died before I 
DD> became that tempted.

Turns out that NetComm actually had a _third_ M5, which was a full-on
V.32bis 14400 bps modem.  It was supposed to be an in-house test machine
only, but as many as 50-odd of these things got out into the field as
purported beta modems, which nobody wanted to return to NetComm.  The
giveaway was the EPROM, which reported "NetComm Series 3 V.32bis"
on an ATI3 command.  These were the precursors to the E7 and M7 modems, and
as far as I know, there are still as many as 20 of these things
outstanding.  :)

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