Re: tlug: Re: ISDN problems

[Chris Sekiya <chris@example.com>]

On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Scott Stone wrote:

> I don't see '8390x' anywhere on any of my 3 internal sportster 33.6k
> modems here.  Where would I find this?  they all say 'Copyright 1995'
> on the back, though.  they also all have stickers saying '550 6345 A'.

I was referring to external Sportsters[1] -- I should have been more
explicit.

The 8390x was the first five digits in the serial number.  In USR
products, that corresponded to the model number.

> Their tech support is kind of lame, yes.  But the modems are self
> documenting.

The documentation won't do a bit of good if the modem just plain doesn't
work right.  Which Sportsters were prone to do.

> Mine don't seem to have soldered-in firmware.. at least they all have at
> least one removable chip on them.

You've probably got the internal version of the 83903, which featured
new-and-improved firmware.

-- Chris

[1] I dislike internal modems, too.  Can't put an ISA internal modem in a
    sparc, nor hang it off of a portmaster.

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