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Article #143Re: The new 56K standard is SET!!!! It is called V.pcm
From: Keith R. Williams
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 00:00
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 00:00
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On Sat, 17 Jan 1998 17:53:07, theo@inreach.i.hate.com.spaaaaam (Theo) wrote: > On 17 Jan 98 15:53:42 GMT, krw@ibm.net (Keith R. Williams) wrote: > > >I believe all USR Couriers and 56K Sportsters have flashable data > >pumps. The later 33.6K Sportsters do as well (the ones > >upgradeable to 56K with a flash). > > I have a later sportster I got last december when they were having the > free upgrade to X2, when I got the upgrade it was a chip, I had to > open it up (external) yank the old chip with a little metal dealie and > put the new chip in. I better be more careful next time cuz I cracked > the chip socket a little. oops. It wasn't a later Sportster if it wasn't flash upgradeable. It's hard to tell how long it was sitting on a shelf somewhere. I don't believe yours will have a free upgrade to v.pcm, but you'd have to check with USR. Their upgrade path hasn't been easy to follow. ---- Keith R. Williams krw@ibm.net
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fc9bd,4faa50a8bf7149b2 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc9bd,public X-Google-Thread: 1045b9,4faa50a8bf7149b2 X-Google-Attributes: gid1045b9,public X-Google-Thread: 105ed0,4faa50a8bf7149b2 X-Google-Attributes: gid105ed0,public From: krw@ibm.net (Keith R. Williams) Subject: Re: The new 56K standard is SET!!!! It is called V.pcm Date: 1998/01/17 Message-ID: <pLMYl5dhX7hK-pn2-dddWxGyOLTZE@localhost> X-Deja-AN: 316874904 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <69ci2g$t0p$1@toto.tig.com.au> <69ekfa$4nd$1@bigboote.WPI.EDU> <MPG.f24ca427e1ddb1e989681@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <69m3l7$ak3$1@news6.ispnews.com> <34BFCAE8.1CB7@gate.net> <34c0babd.0@news3.ibm.net> <pLMYl5dhX7hK-pn2-drPNLXQkQvxP@localhost> <34c1ef30.368976@news.inreach.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: krw@ibm.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Organization: IBM.NET Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.comm,aus.comms,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips