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- From: fdrennon@mont.mindspring.com (Floyd Drennon)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: USR Sportster Vi DSVD - where is the 33.6k upgrade???
- Date: 25 Feb 1996 14:18:52 GMT
- Organization: Comp-U-Comm
- Message-ID: <4gpr4c$i0@firebrick.mindspring.com>
- References: <4g828l$qag@pipe11.nyc.pipeline.com> <4gco72$7r9@pipe10.nyc.pipeline.com> <4gjdac$c08@earth.superlink.net> <4gp1mh$g8m@cloner4.netcom.com>
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- In message <4gp1mh$g8m@cloner4.netcom.com> - lebrand@ix.netcom.com writes:
-
- :>My guess is it's a marketing scam by USR. When the Sportster Vi was
- released
- :>the 33.6 upgrade for the regular Sportster had already been out for quite a
- :>while, I think they're just waiting a few months to release the Vi upgrade
- so
- :>they can charge for it and avoid the customer pressure for a free upgrade
- if
- :>they had released it in a timely manner. So far USR gets bad marks for
- their
-
- Thanks for the laugh, I needed that. You folks who jump right on the
- bleeding edge and then whine and complain because you don't get the features
- at the same time the older models do are a hoot.
-
- Floyd Drennon
- fdrennon@mont.mindspring.com
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