Those were some good specs back in the day... And the price 😯
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I repaired about 1000 of these in a single year.
That USR softmodem was an absolute plague.
If it was a real ISA card it was solid, the "winmodem" was shitty as hell however
US Robotics. Accept no substitute.
Was that the modem that used “spare CPU cycles” as its processor?
Because that was hot garbage.
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.
I remember launching Netscape Navigator Gold was PAINFULLY slow with a software modem.