Re: PM3 vs USR TC (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Wed, 25 Sep 1996 19:02:06 -0700 (PDT)

Once upon a time Prof Jake Messinger shaped the electrons to say...
>Huh? I just got off their web site and got pricing info, including pricing
>for the 336 upgrades.

Please show me where. I even used the 'search' utility on 'price' and it
didn't find it. I admit I got frustrated and eventually gave up - which I
don't take as a good sign for someone casually looking for info, I poked
around a lot. If you have the URL for the pricing on the TC/PRI components
please share. All I could find was some brief pricing on the individual
modems.

>> info* online in a usable form. All of the product data sheets I
>> needed were available ONLY in PDF format. On top of that, they
>PDF is fast becomming a standard

Which is LAME. USR so far is the ONLY site I have hit that didn't have
the information in HTML. To me it says "We don't care enough to put out
info out there in a universal format."

>Hmm, errors? Really? Which ones? Id write to sales@usr.com and tell them
>that their SALES material on their web site is messed up!

Adobe spit out some error about 'File is damaged blah blah' and if I
tried to 'print' it printed the first page only and then bombed out. What
I had to do was print each page individually, then it worked. I hadn't
had that problem before...

But why would I want to help USR fix their sales material? ;-) (OK, so I
probably should just to be a good neighbor.)

>Well, yer right, my Acrobat reader reports there are errors. I wonder if
>maybe Im using an old version? (2.1). I have noticed that they sure do
>draw alot of extraneous stuff in those files that makes output slow.

I'm using 3.0 and it wasn't much better. And have some HUGE graphics, the
first page is something over 3Meg in PostScript if you print it.

-MZ

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