Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote in a message to Eddy Thilleman:

 ET> Why not a external modem hooked up to a decent serial port which
 ET> supports at least 115200bps DCE-CTE speeds (any decent mainboard has
 ET> such serial ports) ?

 JdBP> I'm not looking at external modems for the two reasons that I 
 JdBP> gave before.  Briefly: An external modem requires surface space 
 JdBP> to sit on, and I have none; 

I've got two sitting on top of this tower.  

 JdBP> and an external modem requires a separate power supply and 
 JdBP> extra cabling, and I already have too much of that as it is.

Nowhere near what some of us have...

 JdBP> Andy Roberts also mentioned that external modems tend to have 
 JdBP> greater heat problems than internal modems. 

Not the Courier,  which you wouldn't know was on if it weren't for the lights. 
That thing just doesn't generate that much heat.  The Maxtech that's sitting
on top of it gets a bit warmer,  and the Zoom 14.4 I had was terrible in that
regard,  causing me concern with desk clutter (I had it sitting on the desk
when I last used it).

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