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- From: crs0794@inforamp.net (Geoffrey Welsh)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Courier > I Modem upgrade
- Date: 30 Mar 1996 23:32:31 GMT
- Organization: InfoRamp Inc., Toronto, Ontario (416) 363-9100
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- In article <4jdmoo$1oe@nntp1.best.com>, Rigor@clever.net (Matt Fox) wrote:
- >In article <4jd1ne$n9c@mule2.mindspring.com>, fdrennon@pobox.com says...
- >>In message <3159becd.1800597@news.tiac.net> - bonar@tiac.net (Raymond
- >>Bonar)Wed, 27 Mar 1996 22:28:13 GMT writes:
- >>If past USR upgrades are any indication, you'd be better off selling the
- >>Courier and buying the I-modem.
- >
- >you got me there.. im confused.. take for instance a 16.8 hst to 28.8
- >v.everything modem upgrade. new modem sells for about $375-550, the
- >value of a used 16.8 you could reasnobly sell for now is about $75 bucks
- >also take for istance the old 14.4 hsts to new modem trade in. same
- >price for new modem, trade in with old hst is $249, price you could
- >reasnobly sell a 14.4hst is $25 bucks, your theory makes no sense.
-
- You're looking at _today's_ price of those modems, and he's talking about the
- price he could get for a Courier V.Everything _now_, not two years from now.
- What was a 16.8 Courier HST Dual Standard worth when the Courier 28.8 (V.FC)
- first came out?
-
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- Geoffrey Welsh, Developer, InSystems Technologies Inc.
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