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- From: mwood@indyvax.iupui.edu (Mark H. Wood)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: USR Sporster 33.6K's - The new ones have *totally* different
- Message-ID: <1996Feb1.065224.22101@indyvax.iupui.edu>
- Date: 1 Feb 96 06:52:24 -0500
- References: <4ej7fq$eh7@news.isc.rit.edu> <4ekmcl$nms@ruby.interactive.net>
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- In article <4ekmcl$nms@ruby.interactive.net>, zitkr@interactive.net (Robert Zitka) writes:
- > Alexander Brin (ajb8886@cs.rit.edu) wrote:
- >
- > : Anyone know the story on this? Locally the price on USR Sporster 33.6K
- > : internal modems has dropped to $149 (Computer City), and when I installed
- > : one for a friend I found much to my great surprise that the Sportster now
- > : has a totally different chipset and datapump, and bears no relation to
- > : the older Sporster/Courier internals.
-
- Um, are you sure this isn't one of the lobotomized modems that depends on
- MS Windows and your CPU to do most of the work? Those are lots cheaper than
- "equivalent" full-function models, and lots simpler. "Real" Sportster 28.8s
- are still going for $199-209 in the catalogs I see.
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