Those were some good specs back in the day… And the price 😯

  • Endorkend
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    411 months ago

    Yep, software modem.

    So if you bogged your system in any way while doing anything online, you’d DC in a heartbeat.

    Additionally, the software part was buggy and prone to getting tainted beyond repair.

    Driver updates also often borked everything.

    And replacing the modem was only 50/50 going to fix your issues with it, so until the internet developed a driver cleaner tool specifically for the USR Softmodem, you often had to reinstall Windows to actually fix the issues.

    • @AtariDump
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      111 months ago

      I remember launching Netscape Navigator Gold was PAINFULLY slow with a software modem.