Hello John!

Wednesday October 02 1996 23:52, John Piper wrote to Peter Ortner:

 > You'd have to be terribly unfortunate to experience a power loss during the
 > several seconds it takes to flash-upgrade the modem.

IMHO it's a design flaw (or at least it was overlooked) if this is even a
possibility. Lately the Supra beta ROMs have only been available in binary
format for uploading by Xmodem, and the modem seems pretty fussy about what
Xmodem you use; neither FrontDoor nor Telix work, only DSZ (among those
I've tried), and I'm not the only person to experience. After giving the
Xmodem upload command, AT**, I've had to power cycle the modem and try
again.

Also, some particular Supras are prone to losing their ROMs on occasion. If
this happens the modem will just sit there sending a message to the
terminal telling you how to fix it. Running the flasher fixes it up. Hence,
no risk of complete ROM loss with this modem.


Regards,
Hamish

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