Do I have to use the modem supplied with RamPage?
Yes, but not because Ergonomic Solutions is in the business of selling modems. In fact, we don’t sell these modems at all to our customers. They remain as part of our equipment-in-the-field inventory. We provided for your use with each dial-up paging channel license that you purchase, and must be returned after our licensing agreement terminates. The primary reason we ship a modem with RamPage is because the models we select provide the best emulation of the communications used by an Alphamate page entry terminal. An Alphamate is a device that looks like a fax machine, except it has a full keyboard. Prior to wireless messaging software products like RamPage, the only way to send a full text message by an operator typing messages into an Alphamate terminal. The RamPage modem is in fact dumb and slow when compared to today’s high speed multi-protocol modems. But message transactions are only a few hundred bytes, and even at the slowest speeds, they are transmitted in only a few seconds.
