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From: zjdg11@hou.amoco.com (Jim Graham)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Telebit Announcement of V.32 bis for T-1600
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.124330.17072@hou.amoco.com>
Date: 25 Jun 91 12:43:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: hou.1991Jun25.124330.17072
References: <1991Jun24.014347.5895@netcom.COM>> <1991Jun24.045215.12967@morrow.stanford.edu> <1096@camco.Celestial.COM>
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In article <1096@camco.Celestial.COM> bill@camco.Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell) writes:
>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!

ditto!  I have a Telebit T-2500 that I've owned since Feb. --- if Telebit
comes along with a REASONABLY priced upgrade to v.32bis (I'm told by our
local rep that firmware upgrades are typically $ 75 or so....I could live
with that for V.32bis), but if they come along and make the upgrade cost
any more than that, you can bet I won't be getting it!

I only paid $ 800 (after tax, postage, etc) for the modem....I'd be insane
to pay something like $ 250 for a firmware revision.  Let's just hope they're
reading all this.

   --jim

Standard disclaimer....These thoughts are mine, not my employer's.

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