🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 11 Aug 2000 21:26:44 -0700, Joseph Oberlander
<oberland@pacbell.net> wrote:

>This is one of the last of the older "silver" indestructable types.
>A simmilar model was used by myself in college about 20 hours a day
>in high heat for about three years and not a single failure.  It also
>produces about 1/3 the errors of the cheaper modems.  Only USR and Hayes
>make simmilar quality modems to this one, and Supra(Diamond now) no 
>longer makes this "high-end" type.
>
>It is bulletproof, has a seperate cable(std RS232 connector) and
>a *power switch*. It also has the high-density alphanumeric display.
>
>It is NOT one of the newer, picece of junk models that have the cable
>integrated, dummy status lights, as well as no power switch.
>
>It says 28.8 on the case, but it has the newer chipset from a 33.6
>and the appropriate EPROM/BIOS upgrades.  Evidently Supra did this sort
>of thing at the very end of the 28.8 run, before they fully switched over
>to the inferior "express" line.
>
>Parents got Cablemodem and no longer need it.  Comes with a nice large 
>manual explaining how to tweak *every* register imaginable and custom 
>configure it and quick-reference card.
>
>$20(cable sells for this new)

I would tell your parents to keep it hooked up for a backup to use
with Netzero in case [when] the cable modem fails.