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Re: USR X2 Modems . Do they Work??? Or just hype.

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From: Robert Wilderspin
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 00:00
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On Thu, 10 Apr 97 07:48:07 GMT, bhk@dsl.co.uk (Brian {Hamilton Kelly})
wrote:

>But Graham is a Demon customer, posting from a .co.uk address into the
>newsgroup demon.tech.modems --- the whole of the UK has had a fully-
>digital backbone for at least two years (possibly longer).  Moreover,
>there's only a very few non-digital electronic exchanges left (something
>well down in the low single figures as a percentage) --- and absolutely
>no mechanical ones whatsoever.  

Some stuff that BT sent me yesterday said that 92% was digital.  I
think that I'm in the 8% that uses carrier pigeons carrying punch
cards.

rob.
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From: antispam@feverish.demon.co.uk (Robert Wilderspin)
Subject: Re: USR X2 Modems . Do they Work??? Or just hype.
Date: 1997/04/10
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