Amcnc.1135 net.dcom utzoo!decvax!duke!mcnc!taylor Wed Apr 7 16:59:57 1982 Ven-tel 212 with autodialer As a part of our evaluation of 212 compatible modems, I recently received for evaluation a Ven-tel 212 with integral auto-dialer. I am currently running with it on our Develcon Dataswitch as an outgoing service, and it is absolutely amazing. Among the more interesting features are: > Auto Speed detection as to whether terminal is 300 or 1200 baud. > Storage of up to 5 phone numbers of up to 30 digits (or control characters) > "linking" to another of the stored phone numbers if first number tried is busy. > "blind dialing" for entry of touch-tone info to computers (without dial tone.) > redial and "redial forever" commands. > on-line help. List price that I was quoted (institutional price?) was $846. 212 equivalent without dialer was $718. Don't know what a competatively bid contract price might be. Anyone know of a similar (or better) product at a competative price? Steve Taylor ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.