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- From: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: New model USR Sportster?????
- Date: 5 Apr 1996 22:23:16 GMT
- Organization: The National Capital FreeNet
- Sender: an171@freenet6.carleton.ca (Anthony Hill)
- Message-ID: <4k46gk$r0@freenet-news.carleton.ca>
- References: <1996Apr5.121445.1@ulkyvx.louisville.edu>
- Reply-To: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
- NNTP-Posting-Host: freenet6.carleton.ca
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- (jgfalk01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu) writes:
- > Yesterday I purchased a USR SPortster 33.6 modem in the internal version.
- > Upon inspection the ROM is surface mounted to the board. It has a supervisor
- > date of 1/11/96. I take it that this modem is non-rom upgradable as there is
- > no socket onboard. This is not the Win modem nor the VI model, just the
- > regular 28.8 with v 34+. Others keep referring to upgrading their rom chips.
- > Is this a thing of the past now that the chips are soldered to the modems???
-
- I guess so.. A really bad idea if you ask me. You better hope
- that your modem doesn't have any bugs, because if it does you're stuck
- with them.. Now why the heck would USR do something like this?!
-
- Anthony
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- Anthony Hill | an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA
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