Re: flexfax: consultant wanted for install...

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>]

On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 08:37:05AM +0100, David Woolley wrote:
> Firstly before USR were taken over by 3COM, they made two lines of
> modems:  Sportsters and Couriers.  Various firware versions of the
> Sportster (the cheap one) will either not work at all with hylafax
> or require modifications to the Hylafax configuration to prevent them
> replying with gibberish in phase B of the fax protocol.  The Couriers
> were premium products and don't produce problem reports, but are probably
> not widely used.

Actually, the modem notes in the distribution suggest that the Couriers
aren't exactly perfect for fax service, at least on older firmware
revs.

> After the takeover, one or both of the names Sportster and Courier were
> abandoned in favour of simply "US Robotics Modem".  From the physical 
> description given by people, it looks as though this is the problematic
> Sportster model, although one person claims to have seen ATI strings
> implying that it is the Courier.

I sell these things; the "US Robotics Modem" is the Sportster.  The
Courier is still called the Courier.

Black Box even admits to the name nowadays.  :-)

Cheers,
- -jra
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