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From: wayne@fmsrl7.UUCP (//ichael R. //ayne)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Trailblazer vs. USR 9600 HST
Message-ID: <6057@fmsrl7.UUCP>
Date: 27 Dec 87 05:17:58 GMT
References: <2473@killer.UUCP> <492@hscfvax.harvard.edu> <757@vixie.UUCP> <7907@e.ms.uky.edu> <100@oresoft.UUCP>
Reply-To: wayne@fmsrl7.UUCP (/\/\ichael R. \/\/ayne)
Organization: Ford Motor Company, Scientific Research Labs, Dearborn, MI
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In article <100@oresoft.UUCP> randy@oresoft.UUCP (Randy Bush) writes:
->In article <7907@e.ms.uky.edu> david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack) writes:
->>Yeah, I was worried about that too ..
->>so I called Mike Ballard to ask that and a few other questions.
->>Every question I asked along these lines was answered that it
->>would simply be a ROM change.
->
->FidoNet folk got into Telebits a good while ago.  At the time, we were also
->told that we would be able to follow the upgrade path with low cost ROM changes
->all the way.  For that reason, many FidoNetters got Blazers (though many got
->USR/HSTs too).
->
->And then TeleBit announced the TB+.  Needless to say, there is considerable
->flaming in the rlevant FidoNet echos on the subject.  Quite a few folk seem
->too feel that they were misled, and now it will cost > $1000 to 'upgrade'.
->
->I am not saying that Telebit was wrong, or the FidoNetters were either.  I
->do suggest that we take promises that it will merely require a ROM change
->with considerable salt, especially when coming from Telebit.

	Er, what is your complaint?  As far as I can tell, the TB and the TB+
are operationally the same although the TB can not do hardware compression.
This does not seem like THAT big of a deal, why bother with the upgrade?
Perhaps you should clarfiy your position??

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