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echo: usr_modems
to: RICK COLLINS
from: KEN WHITON
date: 1998-05-17 00:00:00
subject: Winmodem

*-* On {13 May 98  21:02:27}, Rick Collins wrote to Frank Sexton *-*
*-* Concerning: Winmodem *-*
 FS>> Why is it that in three NT-preload Dell boxes I just
 FS>> received (complete with USR OEM 56k internal modems) that
 FS>> they identify themselves via ATI7 as a "Sportster Winmodem"
 FS>> and work just fine under NT?  I thought USR Winmodems were
 FS>> not supposed to work under NT.
 RC> They will (obviously) with an approprite VDD.  I'd guess Dell provided
 RC> one.
    According to what I've read in the Gateway newsgroup recently, there's
also one available for Gateway's "Telepath modem for Windows", which is
also an OEM variation of the Sportster Winmodem.  I've also seen reports
that NT 5 is expected to include one.  Time will tell.
                                       Ken Whiton
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