Re: USR Sporster si on //e

[cust_ts@cc.Helsinki.FI (Tero Sand)]

In article <483024$1gj1@hearst.cac.psu.edu>,
Jason Jeffries <JJeffries@psu.edu> wrote:
>In article <4806k1$e0a@news.asu.edu>
>ldickey@aztec.asu.edu (L. J. DICKEY) writes:
>
>> I have recently saw an advertisement for a USR 14.4 modem and I 
>> was wondering if anyone out here was using one.
>> 
>> It is a Sporster fax/modem and supports all the protocols (v.32,
>> Bell 212a/v.22 etc...).  A company called Data Comm WAREHOUSE is
>> selling it for around $60.
>
>FORGET IT! Sportster SI modems don't have compression or error
>correction built in. Instead, they use a piece of Windoze software to
>emulate these functions.

This seems _highly_ unlikely, can anybody corroborate?

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