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echo: aust_modem
to: Bill Grimsley
from: Randall Lane
date: 1996-11-08 14:15:16
subject: X-Files modem

Hello there Bill ....



 BG> John, at 20:20 on Nov 04 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...



BG>> BTW, the "X-Files" logo is a registered trade mark, and its

BG>> (legal) use incurs a royalty fee - and guess who ultimately pays

BG>> for that ?



JP>> Exactly my point. At $399-odd, the X-Files modem is

JP>> surprisingly cheaper than any other NetComm modem I've ever seen.



 BG> NetComm are still paying off their marble staircase then,

 BG> are they? One can buy two perfectly usable Taiwanese Rockwell

 BG> 33k6 clones for that amount, and still have enough cash left over

 BG> to buy a 4X CD-ROM drive, or whatever...



The "perfectly usable" taiwanese clones don't have the Netcomm

faxswitching capabilities but, thereby negating their usefulness on a

single line that is used for data/fax/voice. Works too!!



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