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Two USRobotics Modem Cards

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First post, by popeyewinter

Posted on 2017-04-16, 05:44

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Hey, sorry I am asking this before making an introductory post, but I am busy and gotta ask this question, I will write an intro tomorrow.

Anyways,

I just bought a vintage computer with an AMD486 processor, sound blaster 16, and 1mb ATI video card, works great, except the turbo button doesn't seem to work, and the processor speed doesn't appear on the LED. I am going to look into that tomorrow though.

My question(s) is this:

I have a USRobotics Sportser Model 0460 (ISA) installed right now, without jumpers because I didn't get jumpers with it. I am running MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1. I wonder if anyone knows what the settings (ports, IRQ interrupts...) would be for that card without any jumpers set, if it is possible, or does it require jumpers?

If it requires jumpers I have a USRobotics Model 0266 14.4k ISA Modem from 1994 coming in the mail off of ebay soon.

I am having trouble finding windows 3.1 drivers for it, but I hear that Windows 3.1 does not require jumpers for hardware modems, and luckily this card uses dip switches instead of jumpers, so now way to loose parts! Does anyone know if it's compatible with Windows 3.1 or 3.11 WFW? It's from 1994, so I am assuming it should be.

USRobotics seems to be pretty popular, so I am assuming they are Hayes compatible?

I google searched for ages, both of these cards, and I cannot find anything except for ebay listings, and sales on other websites.

Reply 1 of 11, by akula65

Posted on 2017-04-16, 10:39

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Some of the USRobotics files here go back to 1993, so you may find something of use:

Index
http://linux4u.jinr.ru/pub/misc/h-w/modem/usr/dl07/index

Actual files
http://linux4u.jinr.ru/pub/misc/h-w/modem/usr/dl07/

Reply 2 of 11, by gdjacobs

Posted on 2017-04-16, 11:15

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USR modems are USR compatible. From the introduction of the Hayes command set up until the 33.6k days, different modems were mostly inter-operable, but the great 56k schism forced dialup subscribers to choose from the USR and Rockwell camps. This was followed by the great ITU unification with V.90 and V.92 before telephony modems started becoming a dying breed.

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Reply 3 of 11, by Rhuwyn

Posted on 2017-04-16, 23:03

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What I am more interested in. Is what are you using modems for? 😀

Reply 4 of 11, by popeyewinter

Posted on 2017-04-16, 23:13

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to get one the internet the way it would've been done back then, especially with 3.xx!

Reply 5 of 11, by gdjacobs

Posted on 2017-04-17, 00:45

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You'll need an actual telephone exchange to get carrier.

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Reply 6 of 11, by popeyewinter

Posted on 2017-04-17, 00:48

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What does that mean?

I actually pay for dialup, so I figure that once I get the modem working, I just dial with trumpet winsock?

Am I missing something?

Reply 7 of 11, by Rhuwyn

Posted on 2017-04-17, 15:43

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popeyewinter wrote:
What does that mean?

I actually pay for dialup, so I figure that once I get the modem working, I just dial with trumpet winsock?

Am I missing something?

As long as you have an actual legit POTS line. VOIP phonelines don't work with dialup. At least not very well.

Reply 8 of 11, by gdjacobs

Posted on 2017-04-18, 02:13

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IIRC, VOIP can support 28.8 connections depending on compression used.

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Reply 9 of 11, by chinny22

Posted on 2017-04-18, 12:05

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If your using WFW, it support dial up out of the box. You may need the updated TCP stack though
Microsoft TCP/IP-32 3.11b at WinWorldPC

If you find the 128 bit version of Netscape 3 let me know, been kinda looking for that for around a year or 2 now!

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Reply 10 of 11, by tayyare

Posted on 2017-04-20, 13:22

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popeyewinter wrote:
to get one the internet the way it would've been done back then, especially with 3.xx!

If the "connecting by dialing" is not the thing you especially want, you can connect to internet with Windows 3.11 just fine from your current connection. Just install the TCP/IP pack for Windows 3.11, enable DHCP, define your router as the gateway and DNS, and voila.

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Reply 11 of 11, by popeyewinter

Posted on 2017-04-20, 16:28

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tayyare wrote:
popeyewinter wrote:
to get one the internet the way it would've been done back then, especially with 3.xx!

If the "connecting by dialing" is not the thing you especially want, you can connect to internet with Windows 3.11 just fine from your current connection. Just install the TCP/IP pack for Windows 3.11, enable DHCP, define your router as the gateway and DNS, and voila.

Yes, I'm aware, but I want to go it with my dial-up service.

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