7 Aug
2008
7 Aug
'08
9:06 p.m.
On 7 Aug 2008 at 22:09, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
I also have this other one, the name not coming to
mind offhand, but it was
in a smaller case and seemed to run somewhat warmer. New out of the box, it
worked well for me at 56K until getting glitched one day and then when I
tried "AT" anything what it comes back with is "boot:" and nothing
else.
I've not been able to find anything about it online, so far...
This was a USR? Not a Sportster? The Courier V.Everything and Dual
Standards are smaller than the HST, but I assume that isn't what
you're talking about.
There was also a lot of junk out there--and I'm not talking about
those worthless "Winmodems", although those are in a class of garbage
all their own.
I made the mistake of buying a Hayes Optima 288 V.FC "business
modem", I did upgrade the firmware to V.34, but the thing was flakey
as hell. I also had a Zoom 56Kx modem, which delivered miserable
performance. USR Sportsters seemed to work all right for awhile and
then exhibit problems.
But the Couriers just kept on working until I closed down the BBS
(still have the hard disk with NT 4.0 and Auntie on it--it might be
fun to boot it to see what the message log has in it).
Cheers,
Chuck