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From: bill@camco.Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Telebit Announcement of V.32 bis for T-1600
Message-ID: <1096@camco.Celestial.COM>
Date: 24 Jun 91 15:30:59 GMT
References: <1991Jun23.122514.27945@nstar.rn.com> <1991Jun23.174109.2978@shaman.com> 	<1991Jun24.014347.5895@netcom.COM> <1991Jun24.045215.12967@morrow.stanford.edu>
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In <1991Jun24.045215.12967@morrow.stanford.edu> hartzell@sumex-aim.Stanford.EDU (George Hartzell) writes:

>And after seven months they expect me (actually, mine are about 2
>months old) to make an investment of more than half the cost of the
>new modem to upgrade it to a standard that was finished when I
>purchased the modem.  If all that it takes is a firmware upgrade, then
>.....deleted.....

I'll second this!  I just installed a t1600 here about a week ago
(it sat on the shelf for a month till I found time to attack
installation).  If I'd wanted to pay 250 more I'd kick in an
extra 50 bucks or so and waited for the T2500 replacement!

IMHO, Telebit will be making a major PR gaffe if they charge
existing T1600 customers more than a nominal fee for this
upgrade.

This reminds me of Unify Corporations asking me to pay $1,500 for
an ``upgrade'' to the UNIFY 4.0 database product when all I wanted
was bug fixes that had been around for years.  UNIFY was a major
player the the Unix DBMS market when I started using it in 1984.
Where are they now?

Bill
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