David, at 19:26 on May 29 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

BG> A bad USR still has to be better than the best NetComm...  :)

db> With programmers from MBE writing the controller/DSP code?  :-)

Shit no!  I'd learn C++ and write my own in that case...

db> Actually I was asked to investigate a problem with a NetComm Roadster 288 
db> (nee, "Automodem") today .. what a heap of shit, and I
couldn't bring 
db> myself to tell the guy.

Jeeze, I sure would have.  :)

BG> Just be thankful the you weren't one of the poor bastards who forked out
BG> $2199 for the short-lived TPEP WorldBlazer then.

db> Absolutely!  I can't recall anyone I know getting the WorldBlazer,

I seem to recall that Paul Marwick bought one (and gave up on it a few
months later), and that Dave Hatch also had one for a while, but can't
verify that.

db> but one or two sysops I knew at the time got the TrailBlazer V.32 (I 
db> connected to it with my M5, back then, and subsequently with my M7F).

The TR-250 wasn't a bad modem in its day, but still way overpriced.  Funny
how some people thought nothing of paying A$2200 for a NetComm (at the 1991
dollar values), yet now complain that the Courier currently costs A$650...

Regards, Bill
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