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- From: cewyatt@cew.com (C. E. Wyatt)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: are USR Couriers really a superior modem?
- Date: 13 Mar 1996 22:34:27 GMT
- Organization: MindSpring Enterprises
- Message-ID: <4i7ihj$aim@B1FF.mindspring.com>
- References: <4hq3uu$moe@gryphon.phoenix.net> <4hqi4d$17a@brickbat.mindspring.com><4hq3uu$moe@gryphon.phoenix.net> <4hqi4d$17a@brickbat.mindspring.com> <4i7e8j$2cle@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com>
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- In message <4i7e8j$2cle@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com> - davidsen@tmr.com (bill
- davidsen) writes:
- --
- --In article <4hqi4d$17a@brickbat.mindspring.com>,
- --C. E. Wyatt <cewyatt@cew.com> wrote:
- --
- --| OK, I'll use mine as an example. I purchased my Courier V.34 Ready/Fax
- back
- --| in July '94. It came with V.FC, V.32terbo, and V.32bis (as well as all
- the
- --| lower V.'s). After a bit, USR released new code that had the preliminary
- V.34
- --| support. I downloaded and updated within 5 minutes. Then, USR added the
- --| final V.34 code, just another download. Then, they cleaned up the code,
- fixed
- --| some bugs in the fax - still just another download. Then, they released
- code
- --| that included V.34+ for 33.6 and 31.2 connect rates and also made all
- Courier
- --| modems "Dual Standard". Now, they've released the code that adds Caller
- ID,
- --| Distinctive Ring, and Automatic Redial on carrier drop. All of these
- --| adaptations has only required a download of a file and a quick update to
- --| implement. Coming up we might see DSVD for simultaneous voice/data and a
- lot
- --| of other new niceties.
- --
- --Of course now that USR doesn't have that download option available
- --you call them and ask them to send you the software, which is a real
- --pain. This may change back, but I don't believe it until I see it.
- --
- --Like having docs in acrobat instead of postscript, USR seems to lack
- --a sense of what would make the customer happy after the sale.
- ----
-
- I would imagine more people have access to Acrobat (which is free) than the
- ability to read postscript files. At least they're not putting them in
- something ungodly like MS Word 6.0, etc.
-
- C. E.
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- "Imagine there's no heaven. It isn't hard to do. No Hell below
- us. No religion, too."
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- -- John Lennon
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- C. E. Wyatt
- Atlanta, Georgia
- cewyatt@cew.com
- http://www.cew.com/~cewyatt
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