Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!pcrat!rick
From: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Telebit T2500 and upgrade policy
Message-ID: <682@pcrat.UUCP>
Date: 26 Feb 89 06:32:14 GMT
References: <1224@esunix.UUCP> <1217@sialis.mn.org>
Reply-To: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
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Organization: PC Research, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ
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In article <1217@sialis.mn.org> rjg@sialis.mn.org (Robert J. Granvin) writes:
>go out and buy it.  Telebit is being unusual by offering an upgrade to
>a new product at all.

Not really, since many (most?) of us were under the impression that
the Telebit was a software platform.  Early on, we all thought
that the Plus would support V.32 and FAX, eventually, with ROM
upgrades.  It wasn't until I talked to a Telebit used car salesman
marketing slug at UNIX Expo that I realized that this philosophy
had been dropped.  It is hard for me to believe that this is a
technology problem.  I think it is purely a marketing decision.

BTW, I've refused to upgrade to 4.0 ROMS on the principal that
I should have gotten them in the first place if I had waited
just 4 weeks.  I kept waiting for the V.32 and FAX upgrades,
before I'd blow my wad.  I'm blowing it now on whoever comes
up with a FAX modem and V.32 in the same box.  The writing is
on the wall.

-Rick

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