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to: Bill Grimsley
from: Hamish Moffatt
date: 1996-08-01 21:40:00
subject: Overseas connect

Hello Bill!

Sunday July 28 1996 09:04, Bill Grimsley wrote to Trev Roydhouse:

 > Nobody bothers mentioning the Courier's excellent security features, but
 > I'd suggest that for those who need them, as well as the ease with which
 > EPROM upgrades can be performed, an extra $100 is not too much to pay.
 > I'll avoid mentioning the Courier's support for H16 and V32t, as these are
 > essentially dead protocols these days.  It's probably also worth pointing
 > out that my first V.32bis modem cost me over A$1000 (as presumably, did
 > yours), so $400 for a Courier sounds fairly trivial in comparison.

But is it still worth another $100 over a Viper? I can't say, I haven't used a
Viper. I don't know what price you could buy a Supra for these days (I
bought mine 1.5-2 years ago), but I'd pay $100 more than a USR for it :-)


Regards,
Hamish

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