Re: Linux Alone With Synchron
  By: Dumas Walker to RAMPAGE on Thu Feb 13 2020 06:18 pm

 DW> Never had any experience with the printers, but all of the winmodems I had
 DW> experience with were not only cheaper in $$$ but were also more cheaply
 DW> made than a true hardware modem. Their lifespans seemed shorter, for one.

I avoided winmodems at all cost, because I was using other operating systems as
well as Windows.  For internal modems, I tended to like US Robotics, because
they always seemed to have a model that was a true hardware modem that appeared
to be on a COM port like any other modem.  Aside from Winmodems, I also
remember seeing some internal modems that were hardware modems, but were more
plug-n-play where you couldn't configure their COM port with a hardware jumper.
I tried using one such modem with OS/2 once - It worked with OS/2, but its COM
port and IRQ were different every time I rebooted my PC.  That caused problems
because for any software I wanted to use with that modem, I had to go into the
settings and change the COM port and IRQ.  I ended up returning that modem
after a day or so, so that I could get a refund.

Nightfox

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