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- From: strudeau@star.net
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: USR Sportster Winmodem, any comments?
- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 20:54:53 GMT
- Organization: atbnb Special Forces
- Message-ID: <4jca69$mh4@vixc.voyager.net>
- References: <3140E8AA.1A24@aimnet.com> <31448559.109868290@news1.star.net> <4istt6$lr7@nntp5.u.washington.edu> <4j2drs$s3e@vixc.voyager.net> <4ja39u$vr8@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com>
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- In message <4ja39u$vr8@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com>,
- davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) wrote:
-
- >In article <4j2drs$s3e@vixc.voyager.net>, <strudeau@star.net> wrote:
- >
- >| You can download it from the BBS when it is available - it isn't available
- >| at this time.
- >
- >As I understand it the problem is legal rather than technical, and
- >is not something which can be fixed by USR.
-
- You gotta love our government. :)
-
- >Of course if the country code was embedded in the modem hardware,
- >the firmware could check it and we could have one set of code for
- >the planet, with governments controling hardware rather than
- >firmware.
-
- But that's too simple. BTW, the code is available via the BBS using a
- callback system for those who want to got that route.
-
-