🚀 go-pugleaf

Martin Watson <martin@whitecross.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> In article <B0681EE99668B4E0B@0.0.0.0>, Peter McDermott
> <news@petermc.demon.co.uk> writes
> >In article <ALPKDJA02WQ0EwIX@spacetime.demon.co.uk>,
> >Chris Lawrence <news@spacetime.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >>>I fully expect my local electricity board to come around
> >>>and convert all my sockets to one's with round holes 
> >>>sometime in the very near future.
> >>
> >>You imply that Motorolas are "antique" or have been superceded??  Like
> >>your table lamp/plug??
> >
> >Well, if they don't work any more because the world has moved on
> >and they are out of spec with existing equipment, that would be a 
> >pretty reasonable inference to draw, no?
> >
> But if they are out of spec, why are they out of spec?? Usually, the big
> manufacturers have a big meet and decide the future before it happens so
> they can align their products to this. Did this meeting (between Ascend
> and Motorola??) never happen, or were Motorola never invited, or were
> they (we?) just unlucky, and we have to put up with it?? Where does that
> leave all the 3400's in the world?? Is it tough luck (mate), thanks for
> the cash, or are Motorola (realising a mistake) prepared to hold their
> hands up?? (And, no, I'm not expecting an answer to that).
> 

If you look at the Motorola site http://www.mot.co./MIMS/ISG you will
see that the 3400 were only ever available in the UK, they are not made
any more, and Moto has not provided a spec sheet for them.