Bruce Wilson wrote in a message to Jeroen Van De Leur:

 BW> On 24 Sep 96 04:09pm, jeroen van de leur wrote to All:

 jvdl>I heard a rumour that the new SDL's from USRobotics can 
 jvdl>permanently damage some Courier V.everything modems (US/Canada 
 jvdl>model).

 BW> Some of them have a flash ROM chip which was incorrectly set to be
 BW> read only in an area to which the new SDL writes, so using it will
 BW> crash those modems.  The only way to have a clue in advance is to
 BW> open it up and examine the chip.  The implication is that it's the
 BW> Intel chips which have the problem, which is to say it doesn't have
 BW> the problem if it's got the AMD chip.

It's the other way around, Bruce.  If it's _NOT_ Intel, it may have the problem.

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