Hello John,

On Mar 22 17:23 in a msg to Peter Collis, John Clarke of 3:713/730 wrote:

 PC> Been tossing up whether to replace my old M11F on the mail computer
 PC> with a new shiny V34 job, Ones thing for sure it won't be an Austel
 PC> Courier. 

 JC> Peter,  cast your mind back about 6 months or so ago when the USA
 JC> SDL was released that caused problems when it wrote to part of the
 JC> ROM that hadn't been written to up until then.  NONE of the Oz SDLs
 JC> have written to that part of the ROM as yet.

 JC> My guess is that USR have adopted the course of doing the upgrade
 JC> themselves so they can replace the faulty ROM parts at the same
 JC> time and stop the torrent of "my modem doesn't work" messages
 JC> appearing in the echos.

Were you at PC97? Looked around for you then...

Anyway, spoke to a USR rep there, by name of Marc Sillers. He said the
upgrade consists of a flash of the new code, a power-off and pause, a power
on and check, and then shipped out. But he did suggest calling their tech
support side to check (I pointed out to him that it is rather inconvenient
having your modem off-line when you are running a mailer that collects mail
for other nodes).

Cheers,
Poe

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