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TShappyking4ever
post Jan 14 2021, 10:33 AM, updated 4y ago

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Back in the early online days, US Robotics is a well known brand, and considered high class product.

But now do young people still know about this company? Now is a tiny company with 12 employees only.


From wiki:
U.S. Robotics Corporation, often called USR, is a company that produces USRobotics computer modems and related products. Its initial marketing was aimed at bulletin board systems, where its high-speed HST protocol made FidoNet transfers much faster, and thus less costly. During the 1990s it became a major consumer brand with its Sportster line. The company had a reputation for high quality and support for the latest communications standards as they emerged, notably in its V.Everything line, released in 1996.

With the reduced usage of analog or voiceband modems in North America in the early 21st century, USR began branching out into new markets. The company purchased Palm, Inc. for its PalmPilot PDA, but was itself purchased by 3Com soon after. 3Com spun off USR again in 2000, keeping Palm and returning USR to the now much smaller modem market. After 2004 the company is formally known as USR. It is one of the few companies left in the modem market today, and now employs about 12 people worldwide.







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post Jan 14 2021, 10:35 AM

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Used US Robotics modems in the early days
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post Jan 14 2021, 10:42 AM

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lejendary modem....

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replace it only when unifi available
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post Jan 14 2021, 10:43 AM

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Yes this modem download way faster than the pci software modem.
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post Jan 14 2021, 10:43 AM

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QUOTE(2feidei @ Jan 14 2021, 10:42 AM)
lejendary modem....

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replace it only when unifi available
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StreamyX dulu la... where got terus Unifi

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post Jan 14 2021, 10:44 AM

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I only remember that noisy connection modem.
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post Jan 14 2021, 10:48 AM

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QUOTE(happyking4ever @ Jan 14 2021, 10:33 AM)
Back in the early online days, US Robotics is a well known brand, and considered high class product.

But now do young people still know about this company? Now is a tiny company with 12 employees only.
From wiki:
U.S. Robotics Corporation, often called USR, is a company that produces USRobotics computer modems and related products. Its initial marketing was aimed at bulletin board systems, where its high-speed HST protocol made FidoNet transfers much faster, and thus less costly. During the 1990s it became a major consumer brand with its Sportster line. The company had a reputation for high quality and support for the latest communications standards as they emerged, notably in its V.Everything line, released in 1996.

With the reduced usage of analog or voiceband modems in North America in the early 21st century, USR began branching out into new markets. The company purchased Palm, Inc. for its PalmPilot PDA, but was itself purchased by 3Com soon after. 3Com spun off USR again in 2000, keeping Palm and returning USR to the now much smaller modem market. After 2004 the company is formally known as USR. It is one of the few companies left in the modem market today, and now employs about 12 people worldwide.
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Hello 70s bro, yeah that time us robotic were the premium modem brand, after that all those cheap modem start to appear... Aztech, realtek...

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post Jan 14 2021, 10:51 AM

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QUOTE(2feidei @ Jan 14 2021, 10:42 AM)
lejendary modem....

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replace it only when unifi available
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Similar to what I used too. The dialing sound when you connect was hnghhhhhh
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post Jan 14 2021, 10:52 AM

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The best modem those days

So called faster on 33.6kbps

Then come 56kbps still dominates

After that then steamx come along
SUS2feidei
post Jan 14 2021, 10:55 AM

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QUOTE(mushigen @ Jan 14 2021, 10:51 AM)
Similar to what I used too. The dialing sound when you connect was hnghhhhhh
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yes, yes.....especially after xxx times of try laugh.gif and the curse when someone unknown pickup the phone to make call, it auto-disconnect and take forever and jackpot luck to able to dial in again ranting.gif
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post Jan 14 2021, 11:35 AM

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post Jan 14 2021, 01:11 PM

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QUOTE(kmrdeva @ Jan 14 2021, 11:35 AM)
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Too bad they never managed to invent positronic brain and make real robots.
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post Jan 14 2021, 01:13 PM

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Can't understand why they don't invest into making gigabit modem, routers...


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post Jan 14 2021, 01:14 PM

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I only remember robotech
yugimudo
post Jan 14 2021, 01:15 PM

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Same brotherhood with IBM. The fallen giants.
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post Jan 14 2021, 01:18 PM

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QUOTE(yugimudo @ Jan 14 2021, 01:15 PM)
Same brotherhood with IBM. The fallen giants.
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IBM still very big lah. :x

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post Jan 14 2021, 01:25 PM

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QUOTE(unknown warrior @ Jan 14 2021, 01:13 PM)
Can't understand why they don't invest into making gigabit modem, routers...
continue ler.
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Because their skill was working in baseband analog technology over POTS.

Nowadays most networking equipment aren't modems (there's no need for modulation and demodulation), except for xDSL, which is in itself dying out oso....
nasiputih
post Jan 14 2021, 03:24 PM

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QUOTE(pg84 @ Jan 14 2021, 10:48 AM)
Hello 70s bro, yeah that time us robotic were the premium modem brand, after that all those cheap modem start to appear... Aztech, realtek...
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1970s using this modem. ok, unker

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