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- Path: user1.mnsinc.com!mintz
- From: mintz@mnsinc.com (Larry Mintz)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Sportster Upgrade
- Date: 11 Apr 1996 14:30:39 GMT
- Organization: Monumental Network Systems
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- Gabriel Wong (gawong@wwonline.com) wrote:
- : Hello, I have a Sportster modem which has the 4/18/95 chip. I don't intend to
- : phone USR (long distance) and get the 10/25/96 chip yet. I am wondering, is
- : there going to be another EPROM chip soon. Because it seems every 6 months
- : there is a new EPROM chip. So should I wait a little longer and see if USR
- : releases another EPROM chip or get the 10/25/95 chip?
- : P.S. USR is confusing everybody with its awful customer support.
-
- The 10/25/95 ROM is *not* for your Sportster. For your Sportster, the current
- ROM (as of last week when I got one of mine) is 08/29/95. Newer Sportsters
- use a different hardware design and the ROMs can not be interchanged
- (especially since the 10/25/95 and newer ones are *soldered* in place rather
- than socketed.)
-
- Larry
-