Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
Blog One of Santa's reindeers stepped on my US Robotics Pilot, and the display is broken. Ask US Robotics when the next version is coming out. The software asks whether I want to make this new Pilot "Rupert Goodwins"?
[January 18, 1997, 7:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
News One of Santa's reindeers stepped on my US Robotics Pilot, and the display is broken. Ask US Robotics when the next version is coming out. The software asks whether I want to make this new Pilot "Rupert Goodwins"?
[January 18, 1997, 7:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog There's a fun round-up of the 56k modem market, where the company says that the year-long fistfight over the standard lost them some money but lost US Robotics a lot more. A taxi turns up at Goodwins' Heights to take me away.
[February 14, 1998, 6:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News There's a fun round-up of the 56k modem market, where the company says that the year-long fistfight over the standard lost them some money but lost US Robotics a lot more. A taxi turns up at Goodwins' Heights to take me away.
[February 14, 1998, 6:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Ask US Robotics. A pragmatic cleric, Goodwins Senior. Down in Plymouth, dropping Number One Son off with his grandparents for the last blast of the summer holidays. Also attend to my father (the West Country Vicar)'s modem, which has received a...
[August 23, 1997, 9:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Ask US Robotics. A pragmatic cleric, Goodwins Senior. Down in Plymouth, dropping Number One Son off with his grandparents for the last blast of the summer holidays. Also attend to my father (the West Country Vicar)'s modem, which has received a...
[August 23, 1997, 8:00]
Rupert Goodwins' 12 Best Days Of 1997
News I can't possibly give any credence to the rumour (from sources close to the companies concerned) that US Robotics had swapped their presentation at the last minute: UUNet had insisted that nothing commercial should be mentioned, and during the...
[December 29, 1997, 7:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Saturday Diary
Blog Of that 168 messages, 121 are the weekend's outpouring of the US Robotics' Pilot mailing list. Email addresses: seven. E-mail messages: 168. Not good. Muse miserably about being "Technical Editor (Online)"; everyone sends you free accounts for...
[July 27, 1996, 10:07]
Rupert Goodwins' Saturday Diary
News Of that 168 messages, 121 are the weekend's outpouring of the US Robotics' Pilot mailing list. Email addresses: seven. E-mail messages: 168. Not good. Muse miserably about being "Technical Editor (Online)"; everyone sends you free accounts for...
[July 27, 1996, 9:07]
56K Modem Standard Agreed But Confusion Continues
News Com had already published a four-page advertisement for its US Robotics 'ITU standard 56K modem' in US magazines before the standard was finalised, and claimed, curiously, that their's was the first such modem in existence.
[February 4, 1998, 16:27]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Meanwhile, finally flash-upgrade my US Robotics Courier to X2. Hear from a pal at the Burning Man festival in the US. Strong pound hurt us", says Psion. Watch the announcer on BBC try and fail to come to terms with what he's saying.
[September 6, 1997, 9:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Meanwhile, finally flash-upgrade my US Robotics Courier to X2. Hear from a pal at the Burning Man festival in the US. Strong pound hurt us", says Psion. Watch the announcer on BBC try and fail to come to terms with what he's saying.
[September 6, 1997, 8:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
Blog First, we find that IBM hasn't so much licensed the Pilot technology from 3Com as bought a big box of the things, sandpapered off the words 'US Robotics Palm Pilot" and written "IBM Workpad" on in blue crayon.
[September 27, 1997, 9:36]
Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
News First, we find that IBM hasn't so much licensed the Pilot technology from 3Com as bought a big box of the things, sandpapered off the words 'US Robotics Palm Pilot" and written "IBM Workpad" on in blue crayon.
[September 27, 1997, 8:36]
Five Years Ago: 56Kbps Modems Take Shape
News US Robotics, Motorola and Hayes have followed Boca Research by saying they will deliver products based on the proposed standard and throw their combined weight into making the speed an International Telecommunications Union (ITU) standard.
[September 18, 2001, 8:00]
