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to: Paul Edwards
from: Paul Markham
date: 1996-02-29 21:02:52
subject: Spirit Viper

PE> {at}SOT:

 PE> Hi Paul, whilst looking through old messages I found this.



 PE> On 1995-02-05 08:02, Paul Edwards of 3:711/934.9 wrote:



 RS>> Welp, they certainly got around to eventually fixing the double

 RS>> send to Rockwells problem. Pity the arseholes didnt give a shit



 PE>> Probably due to the fact that it is a Rockwell-based modem now?



 RS>> about retrofitting it to the stuff in the field too |-)



 PE>> I don't think they actually did anything at all to fix it.

 PE>> They're not that smart.



 RS>> I was amazed to see you even contemplate another Spirit. I have



 PE>> Let's see.  I've got a choice of spending $700 for a modem that

 PE>> doesn't connect to Rockwell callers, and e.g. made Paul Markham

 PE>> have to set his modem down to 26000 or something.





 PE> And I vaguely remember this, and it is very obviously the Courier

 PE> that is being discussed here.  Do you remember the problem?  It's

 PE> only 1 year ago, after all!  BFN.  Paul.



Presumably it's the fact that I was having trouble maintaining a 28800
connection to some modems.



The new code you've downloaded into the USR might have fixed it.





Paul



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