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From: edm@nwnexus.UUCP (Ed Morin)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Updating Telebit TrailBlazers
Message-ID: <410190423@nwnexus.UUCP>
Date: 26 Mar 88 01:11:27 GMT
References: <266@telebit.UUCP> <505@pcrat.UUCP> <1988Mar17.002759.1127@utzoo.uucp> <635@teemc.UUCP>
Reply-To: edm@nwnexus.UUCP (Ed Morin)
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc., Seattle, WA
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Keywords: Update TrailBlazer V4.00 Interactive $99

In article <635@teemc.UUCP> wayne@teemc.UUCP (/\/\ichael R. \/\/ayne) writes:
>they could not determine the effectiveness of a PROM burner at a user site
>and they did not want their product to suffer.  Personally, I think that
>anyone who is willing to rip open the modems, remove the EPROMs, erase them,

 (Smart people would NOT blow away their old EPROMS...)           ^^^^^^^^^^^

>program with the new code and reinsert them (voiding warrenty, of course)

Just using the old EPROMS still doesn't "determine the effectiveness of a
PROM burner" - and there are some real kludges out there.  Can you imagine
Telebit having to deal with all the folks who think their homemade EPROM
burner is working fine when it really was that RS-232 cable with the cold
solder joints that caused a glitch in the programming or the "new" EPROMS
that had been reused for years finally slipped bit thus triggering a few
phone calls to Telebit, etc.

I personally think that $100 is a lot of money (maybe justified) for a set
of EPROMS.  I also think that the USENET "deal" is swell (I took advantage
of it too) and hope that there may be a way for Telebit to continue with
the tradition (at least for updates).

Ed Morin
Northwest Nexus Inc.
"Public Access Unix for the Masses"
18704 - 142nd Ave. N.E.
Woodinville, WA  98072
edm@nwnexus.UUCP