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davel
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Question: Gandalf modems?
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Oct 29 14:25 UTC 1993 |
I may have an opportunity to buy, **really** cheap but sight-unseen, a Gandalf
modem. It supposedly supports 19.2 KB, and finances are such that if my
2400-baud modem died now I probably wouldn't be able to replace *that* for
a while; so this sounds like a possible windfall to me. Has anyone ever
heard of or had experience with these?
Thanks for any info.
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rcurl
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response 1 of 8:
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Oct 30 05:13 UTC 1993 |
If its cheap enough, get it. It could serve as a conversation-piece
paperweight (if you know anyone that aren't computer geeks ;->).
Other than these gratuitous observations - I have never heard of a
Gandalf modem.
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jdg
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response 2 of 8:
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Oct 30 14:48 UTC 1993 |
Gandalf modems have been around for 15-20 years. I know of them from the
synchronous modem days, when business telecomunications was leased-line
9600 baud, and the fastest async modems made were Vadic 3400's running
1200 baud.
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tsty
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response 3 of 8:
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Nov 5 07:31 UTC 1993 |
And the results are .............
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davel
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response 4 of 8:
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Nov 5 11:06 UTC 1993 |
...... that I haven't had a chance to follow up on it yet. My connection
(sorry) to all this is a friend-of-a-friend kind of thing. If I manage
to get all set up I will try to remember to post what I find, TS. Thanks
for the nudge.
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twenex
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response 5 of 8:
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Nov 20 05:51 UTC 2003 |
Obviously he forgot...
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davel
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response 6 of 8:
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Nov 20 13:24 UTC 2003 |
Odd, I don't remember anything about this item. Ten years isn't *that* long.
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gull
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response 7 of 8:
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Nov 20 15:11 UTC 2003 |
When I worked for Bank of Alma around 1997 they were still using 9600 baud
leased line modems to connect to some of their branches. Mind, this was in
places like Ashley, towns stuck out in the middle of cornfields with a
population of maybe a few hundred. It was common to partition the bandwidth
on a line like that and use part of it for the Unisys serial terminal
network and the rest for a (very slow) Novell network.
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arthurp
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response 8 of 8:
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Jan 12 05:46 UTC 2005 |
I shudder at the thought of Novell over 9600 baud.
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