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- From: Alan.Gilbertson@f230.n3603.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Alan Gilbertson)
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- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Boom! You're Dead.
- Message-ID: <13063.2A776210@psycho.fidonet.org>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 09:25:51 EDT
- Organization: FidoNet node 1:3603/230 - CSFSO Telecomm, Clearwater FL
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- On <Jul 24 18:24>, Robert Mathias writes:
-
- RM> It's popular to blame the press for everything, but in this case
- RM> it is not so.
-
- I haven't seen the notion that Hayes was being taken to the cleaners
- being touted on the BBS circuits, although that may be the case.
-
- RM> markets because they provided the best product earliest. USR
- RM> got into the 9600 and above market at a price that was
- RM> affordable for PC BBS's. They aggressively pursued this
- RM> market and even to this day most PC BBS's (with high speed
- RM> modems) use USR.
-
- In fact, USR's "sysop deals" got them well entrenched in the BBS
- community before the HST came out. Reasoning (with some justification)
- that users would follow what sysops were using, they pushed the HST
- heavily. Whether USR actually considers this a primary market, I don't
- know. According to what I'm seeing in various BBS conferences, they
- have not been treating sysops with kindness in the last year or so.
-
- RM> It is very easy to see how a BBS user would see "that Hayes is
- RM> being beat up by USR...". After all, in their world they see
- RM> USR, not Hayes. The same is true for the UUCP market where
- RM> Telebit dominates.
-
- This is quite true, although both PPI (Hayes subsidiary) and Hayes modems
- are showing up more and more in the BBS community. On the other side of
- the coin, USR's name is becoming better known in "serious" telecom
- circles, and is mentioned with interest rather than the casual disregard
- that was common as little as three or four years ago.
-
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