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pauldog
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Posted - 11/8/2001 2:15:29 PM  Show Profile  Email Poster  Edit Message  pauldogs Homepage
Anybody worked with this one?

(It's an internal ISA)
USR Model 0236
00027603
1.012.0236
(c) 1993

It's supposed to be a 33.6 Sportster, but I can't find reference to it, or figure out if it's flashable to 56K.

Bob Starnes
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Posted - 11/8/2001 7:42:09 PM  Show Profile  Email Poster  Edit Message
Can't find much on it either but I believe the driver (.inf file) for it is here:
ftp://ftp.usr.com/usr/dl15/mdmusrv.inf
pauldog
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Posted - 11/8/2001 7:48:43 PM  Show Profile  Email Poster  Edit Message  pauldogs Homepage
So you're saying it's a voice modem (the "v" in the INF file name)? What indicates that?
Bob Starnes
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Posted - 11/8/2001 7:56:29 PM  Show Profile  Email Poster  Edit Message
Don't really know, that was just the closest thing I saw, I could be wrong.

Only info I could find is basically what you already have:
FCC: CJE-0223
33.6K Sportster (00027600), TI chipset

Guess it could just as easily be this driver:
ftp://ftp.usr.com/usr/dl07/mdmusrsp.inf

Edited by - Bob Starnes on 11/8/01 8:07:22 PM

pauldog
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Posted - 11/8/2001 9:40:41 PM  Show Profile  Email Poster  Edit Message  pauldogs Homepage
At any rate, it doesn't work. It's in my only ISA slot, where I've successfully installed USR and Lucent modems before. On this one, the Diagnostics say "Can't Open Port."

I just got it used on eBay, hoping to be able to flash it to 56K, but I have a feeling it's too old. It also has DIP switches, and I can't find documentation on them. And it only has one jumper, to set the IRQ, where other USR's I've seen have one jumper for IRQ and one for choosing the COM port.

Bob, where did you find the reference you mentioned? I couldn't find either "27600" or "27603" mentioned at the USR site, with or without the leading zeroes.

Bob Starnes
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Posted - 11/8/2001 10:01:48 PM  Show Profile  Email Poster  Edit Message
One of my main resources for IDing modem is the Linux modem database on Rob Clark's site:
http://www.idir.net/~gromitkc/20010604b.html
pauldog
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Posted - 11/9/2001 2:08:30 PM  Show Profile  Email Poster  Edit Message  pauldogs Homepage
Actually, I don't think it's a voice modem because it has no audio plugs, just the two phone plugs.
Bob Starnes
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Posted - 11/9/2001 5:32:20 PM  Show Profile  Email Poster  Edit Message
I was just reaching, could it possibly be an early internal USR Courier modem? Think the Couriers were the only ones with DIP switches, again I could be wrong since I'm not that good with the USR modems.
pauldog
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Posted - 11/11/2001 1:08:18 PM  Show Profile  Email Poster  Edit Message  pauldogs Homepage
Here's the answer to the mystery. It was listed on eBay as a 33.6, which is why I assumed it was.

USR customer service just wrote back to me (and pretty quickly too, believe it or not!) to say that it's a 14.4.

That explains why I couldn't find it listed anywhere on the Internet, including modemsite.com.

Sorry to take up your time with a boat anchor, but I didn't know.

Bob Starnes
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Posted - 11/11/2001 1:44:14 PM  Show Profile  Email Poster  Edit Message
About as bad as:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&threadm=D3Lw7.6363%24jM.1269738%40news20.bellglobal.com&rnum=5&prev=/groups%3Fas_epq%3Debay%26as_ugroup%3Dcomp.dcom.modems%26num%3D100%26as_scoring%3Dd%26hl%3Den
pauldog
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Posted - 11/11/2001 3:19:17 PM  Show Profile  Email Poster  Edit Message  pauldogs Homepage
Jeez, $50!

My case may have been an honest mistake. The guy sells pulls from PC's he works on, and he offered to exchange it for what it was supposed to be.

And I only paid maybe $10 for it, including shipping. Now I'll have to pay for the postage to return it, if I decide to take him up on the offer.

pauldog
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Posted - 12/9/2001 12:32:16 PM  Show Profile  Email Poster  Edit Message  pauldogs Homepage
Believe it or not, I returned this modem to the seller in Canada, and he replaced it with a 28.8/33.6 USR Winmodem:

http://forum56.com/topic.asp?topic_id=5485&forum_id=7&Topic_Title=Driver+for+00112503+Winmodem+under+Win98SE&forum_title=USR&M=False&S=True

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