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- Path: morris.vip.best.com!user
- From: morris@best.com (Paul Morris)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Anyone get the Sportster V33.6 upgrade chip yet?
- Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1996 22:33:13 -0800
- Organization: Best Internet Communications
- Message-ID: <morris-0302962233130001@morris.vip.best.com>
- References: <4f063s$fqh@ias2.ichange.com> <4f0v70$rlu@sam.inforamp.net>
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- In article <4f0v70$rlu@sam.inforamp.net>, vulcan@inforamp.net (Peter
- Constantinidis) wrote:
-
- > On 3 Feb 1996 17:30:36 GMT, "Bruce D. Ray" <bdray@ichange.com> wrote:
- >
- > >I put my order in late November and am still waiting for the eprom upgrade
- > >chip. What gives?
- > >Has anyone received theirs yet?
- > >Bruce
- >
- > Same here, I ordered in late Nov. as well. No one has received theirs
- > yet. This is due to one of two possible things.
- >
- > 1) USR is 'punishing' all sportster owners for giving them grief to
- > update their roms since 09/02/94, by delaying shipping of roms to
- > customers who have requested one. (Excellent way to increase
- > satisfaction in a product, btw.)
- >
- > or,
- >
- > 2) USR plans to ship us a rom that is newer and less buggier than the
- > current one already out and shipping in new modems. (10/18/95 I think)
- >
- > I certainly hope it'll be 2), because after all this waiting, I'll
- > certainly send them a fax of protest if we all receive the old
- > 10/18/95 one. (They could have mailed those out months ago)
- >
-
- Another possibility is
-
- 3) Perhaps the 10/18/95 roms don't work in the older v34 modems. (The new
- v34+ modems have many parts that differ from the older ones.) So USR may be
- trying to produce a v34+ rom that does work with the older datapumps, etc.
-
- If this is true then we may get a rom that is just as buggy,
- but in new and different ways!
-
- Paul
-