> On Sun, 10 Nov 1996, Jay Hennigan wrote:
>
> > Another advantage to the 2400 bps (and slower) modems for applications
> > such as UUCP mail with relatively small amounts of data is that the
> > negotiation time is very short. That's why the credit-card verifiers and
> > paging terminals are typically 1200 baud. They can handle a half dozen
> > transactions by the time a pair of v.34+ modems have finished negotiating.
> > More tolerant of crappy phone lines, too.
>
> Yep. We do our CC by computer. At first I had a 28.8k on my computer,
> and it was a nightmare trying to connect to the processing company. Busted
> out the trust o' Wang 2400 and it connects every time.
This means that if you do CC via a dialout, or if your machines are set
up to dial your pager via the PM when they want to complain about being
unhappy, you probably won't be able to use a PM3 to do it.
-- Jay Hennigan jay@west.net --
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