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- From: Rigor@clever.net (Matt Fox)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: USR - a PC modem company
- Date: 11 Jan 1996 00:19:45 GMT
- Organization: Best Internet Communications
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- In article <4d0urh$8rg@usenety1.news.prodigy.com>, davidsen@tmr.com
- says...
- >
- >I have been convinced that USR only wants to support PC users, and
- >that other uses are better support by other companies.
- >
- >Example 1 - capabilities:
- > The latest features always come out in the PC internal modem
- >first. 33.6k, voice, DSVD, all for PC users only.
- >
- >Example 2 - documentation;
- > The online doc files are in Word 6 format. Sure a big help if you
- >run UNIX, VMS, Amiga, etc. Of course it would take at least an hour
- >of someone's time to make PostScript versions, compress them, and
- >upload them.
- >
- > Oh, and some documents are in self extracting archives, although
- >the reference port of zip/unzip available for UNIX and virtually
- >every other O/S will unpack this.
-
- there are plain ascii documents for the usr modems you are not
- looking hard enough
-
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- >
- >Example 3 - registration:
- > Online registration is great, but only if you have a PC. I bought
- >the first V.34 Sportster I could get, and am still unregistered
- >because it isn't on or near a Windows machine. It took me several
- >months to finally make someone understand that UNIX isn't a Windows
- >app, and then they promised to send me a paper registration copy.
- >It's been over a year, hasn't happened yet.
-
- you dont need to register the product. you really do not hafto.
- the modem has a 5 year warrenty. and when and if you ever do have
- to have the modem repaired the company will trace the date of
- manufacture from the serial number.
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- >
- > In fairness, USR did send me free ROM upgrades anyway, but I
- >wonder what offers and stuff I haven't been mailed because I'm a
- >UNIX user. Between my office and clients there are over 50
- >Sportsters, 100% unregistered.
- >
-
- same reason you dont need it registered and the dates to get
- new roms are somewhat slow
-
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- > If USR cared about non-PC users they would include an ASCII text
- >and/or Postscript version of the registration doc on the PC disk.
- >Virtually everyone can read PC floppies, even if they can't run the
- >programs, and I'll print the form and fax it myself. Maybe mail is
- >just slow...
-
- to much paper, the online registration was used to remove the paper
- trails
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- >
- >Example 4 - Courier flash:
- > Anyone see a script to download your Courier from UNIX or any
- >other O/S? I just scanned the ftp site, and sure missed it. The only
- >non-PC thing there is a UNIX script which minimal comments and which
- >assumes ksh or bash, since it uses escape sequences in the 'echo'
- >command.
- >
-
- other flash programs are in the development stage from what i
- understand and just about any platform, be it mac or pc can
- either run dos directly or a dos emulator.
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