#: 18903 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
    24-Sep-93  22:57:30
Sb: #18838-#3.5 drive query
Fm: Bob Palmer 74646,2156
To: David Breeding 72330,2051 (X)

re you by any chance on a pulse dial line?  I have an old Hayes which is
holding up well but when I got a new (borrowed) 2400 baud Hayes it packed up
quickly mayyer of months) by getting very noisy on the dialing relay (pulse you
see) started to get wrong numbers and or unable to dial messages.  Then a
second USRobotics also went in a similar fashion so now I'm back to the good
old Hayes.  I wonder if the Telco shunt current isn't just a little too high
for these newer modems with absolute bottom dollar relays and few users who
still use pulse dialing.  I am just opposed to letting the Telco take home an
extra couple of dollars every month for the priveledge of using tone dialing.
Especially when they will no longer install a pulse dial phone but still keep
up the pretext that it is an optional extra.  Wait till they HAVE to come and
change it out at their cost.  That's my motto. Bob

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