-=> Quoting John Piper to Peter Ortner on 03 Oct 96  10:52:56<=-
-=> Subject "Maestro 33.6 Upgrade???" <=-

 JP> On Friday, September 27 1996, Peter Ortner wrote to Hamish Moffatt
 JP> ...
 PO> The point I was trying to make is that the USR Couriers can be
 PO> upgraded using flash ROM's, although you probably know that. The
 PO> problem is, if the power goes out while your upgrading, it's likely
 PO> you've lost your modem.

 JP> You'd have to be terribly unfortunate to experience a power loss
 JP> during the several seconds it takes to flash-upgrade the modem.
 JP> Of course, you could spend several hundred dollars on a UPS just to
 JP> make sure you don't write off your modem if you happen to be one of
 JP> those poor sods who decices to upgrade their modem's code during an
 JP> electrical storm. |-)

Actually, all you have to do is start again, as it is afterall, a NOVRAM
which will be overwritten. So I think the greatest danger comes from putting
the wrong code in it! (That would be interesting...)

Of course, we could (and should) have UPS's just in case we have a penchant
for doing computing only during thunderstorms, and such like. However, there
is the possibility, with a UPS, that it cuts in without one noticing. As
published in a UK magazine, a Sysadmin was typing a report in natural light
by a window and was totally unaware the power had failed. Evidently, the
software had failed to work, and hence his work was lost.

That was relevant, wasn't it....
Regards,
Peter.

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