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- From: strudeau@star.net (Scot J. Trudeau)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Frustration with USR
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 02:40:03 GMT
- Organization: For the CDA: Youstupiddumbshitgoddamnmotherfucker
- Message-ID: <314f2c0e.2585594@netnews.ntu.edu.tw>
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- In message <4idjjt$r5a@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>,
- drdnr@ibm.net (Don Russell) wrote:
-
- [snip]
-
- >But alas, it turns out that I spent $200 US on the daughtercard upgrade for my
- >pre-V.34 Courier. The daughter card was to make "hardware updates obsolete"
- >et al... but not this time.... I'm supposed to send my modem all the way to
- >Illinois for three weeks while they have to do a hardware upgrade.... Hey, they
- >trusted me to install the daughter card properly... why can't they send me the
- >parts and I'll just get my soldering iron out for 15 minutes?
-
- The modification is to the motherboard, not the daughterboard. How would
- USR know 5+ years ago that there would be demand for CID on the Couriers?
- You can do the mods. yourself - there should be a text file floating
- around here describing how to do it.
-
-
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- Scot J. Trudeau
- strudeau@star.net
- http://www.star.net/people/~strudeau/
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