On 05-08-97 RAY TAYLOR wrote to SHANE NICHOLAS... 
 
 RT> that Hayes DID set the standards in modems for a long time.  And I 
  Agreed.  And they may still set some more... who knows... 
 
 RT> consider them very high quality.  And anybody that argues that they're 
 
  I can agree with that.... Hayes is excellent quality, they have been at 
it a long time.  I chose to buy USR mainly because they have comparable 
quality and the place I bought it at was selling them for a price that 
suited my budget !   :-) 
 
 RT> ALWAYS been partial to originals.  Like Hayes for modems, IBM for 
 RT> computer systems (although I don't own an IBM, I built my computer 
 
  IBM ?   Yuch.... can't say I like anything they build....  but I work at 
Digital so maybe I'm a bit biased... ;-)  Seriously though I never liked 
tham as I found them to be too proprietory... with all that old 
microchannel stuff and so on.... when a card or drive blew on an IBM it had 
to be replaced with an IBM part as they were built different and would not 
work on any other machine.... for example their older 3 1/2 diskette drive 
had a ribbon cable that supplied both data and power !  Try hooking any old 
3 1/2 from a pc in there and you'll see it just wont work.   I'll say this 
for IBM though.... they _really_ do build with logevity and quality in 
mind...  my dad has an old XT (don't ask me why) and it has an IBM 
monochrome monitor .... they system still works and that monitor is  -10- 
years old !!!  No lie,  its just unbelievable that anything electronic 
these days could last that long ! 
 
==> Shane <== 
 
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