23 Apr
2012
23 Apr
'12
8:29 a.m.
On 04/23/2012 09:51 AM, Keith Monahan wrote:
USR was *the* modem company for a long time. I loved
their products.
I still have a Courier dual-standard that supported both 14.4k AND 16.8k.
Great modem. It's like a foot+ deep, flat, but I loved the printed hayes
command set reference printed on the bottom.
I liked the internal and older external USR ones - the cases on the later
externals made it look like they'd been given away inside boxes of
breakfast cereal, though.
Mind you, I like devices in big heavy square-ish boxes on the desktop -
small items just fall over easily, or get pulled off the desk by their own
cables, or still occupy space but with the downside that I can't stack
other items on top of them. The majority seem to think that miniaturization
is the holy grail though (and I suppose the smaller the case, the less
material used, so it appeals to the manufacturer too)
cheers
Jules