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To: PTC who wrote (10711)	11/22/1997 5:06:00 PM
From: James Petersen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 45548

>>I look for the best equipt and lowest prices<< pick one Yep...you'e right....most of us have $2000-3000 in our computer and what we want to do is put a $40.00 modem in and wonder why we can't get it to work. Do you also use a no name sound card or Sound Blaster? If you say Sound Blaster...why? If you use a knock off I can tell you why you're having so much trouble with your computer. (IMHO)

To: PTC who wrote (10711)	11/22/1997 5:52:00 PM
From: Marcel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 45548

11/24/97 Search Home Advanced Search Search Help Search the Web Direct Article Link \| New Search \| Search the Web November 24, 1997, Issue: 192 Section: Connect 56K-bps PC Card Features CardBus -- Production set for '98 By Todd Wasserman Newport Beach, Calif.-Rockwell Semiconductors trumped rival 3Com by announcing the first 56K-bps PC card modem that includes CardBus-enabled local-area-network (LAN) capability. Rockwell plans to begin volume production on the LAN-modem device in the first quarter of 1998. Pricing for original equipment manufacturers will start at $68 per unit in volume quantities. No manufacturers for the product have been announced yet. Although several other modem manufacturers have released 56K-bps PC cards with LAN functionality, none has offered ardBus, or 32-bit processing capability. CardBus, which doubles the capability of the 16-bit PCI bus, allows networking speeds of up to 100M bps. PCI bus speeds top off at around 25Mbps. 3Com, which competes with Rockwell in the 56K-bps modem arena, has yet to release a similar product. It now offers a two-card solution for 56K/CardBus. In a written statement, Raouf Halim, vice president and general manager of Rockwell's network access division, credited engineering advances for the breakthrough. "This product represents Rockwell's ongoing progress as we integrate greater levels of networking communications functionality onto ever-smaller pieces of silicon," Halim said. Copyright (c) 1997 CMP Media Inc. techweb.com techweb.com