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Re: USR Sporster si on //e
- Subject: Re: USR Sporster si on //e
- From: iigs@wam.umd.edu (Geoff Weiss)
- Date: 1995/11/12
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
- References: <4806k1$e0a@news.asu.edu> <483024$1gj1@hearst.cac.psu.edu> <485321$70h@kruuna.helsinki.fi>
Tero Sand <cust_ts@cc.Helsinki.FI> wrote:
>Jason Jeffries <JJeffries@psu.edu> wrote:
>>ldickey@aztec.asu.edu (L. J. DICKEY) writes:
>>
>>> I have recently saw an advertisement for a USR 14.4 modem and I
>>
>>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?
The box of the USR SI says it REQUIRES Windows 3.1 for the software
drivers. Since I'm not at work, I can't double check what the drivers
are for, but I'm sure they are used for error correction and compression.
IMO, this modem is a piece of junk.
Geoff
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