Guy Kewney's Weekend Diary
News Off to Circuit City, where the plausible salesman talks me into buying a US Robotics Sportster PC Card for $200. And each time, I pat my shirt pocket reassuringly to check that I actually still have my US Robotics Pilot.
[February 15, 1997, 7:00]
Guy Kewney's Weekend Diary
News Oh, not that boring old Rockwell stuff, no; this is US Robotics' own version. The low point of the evening was the visit to US Robotics, who did a late-night launch of 56Kbps modem technology. Where did you get that idea, Guy?
[October 19, 1996, 9:00]
Guy Kewney's Pre-Easter Diary
News It goes like this: once upon a time, I had a US Robotics Courier, and it stopped working. So I rang my friends at US Robotics 3Com, and said: "Can you replace the non-working part of this? Tough on the guy who bought the batch of "unwanted...
[April 11, 1998, 7:00]
Guy Kewney's Weekend Diary, From Chicago, Las Vegas
News They're licensing the US Robotics "times-two" or "X2" technology, they say; fascinating stuff on how to link videoconferencing from modem to LAN, LAN to ISDN, ISDN to modem. The invite came from US Robotics.
[November 23, 1996, 7:00]
Guy Kewney's Diary
News US Robotics may have announced its X2 technology slightly after the K56 design was announced, but it hit the headlines far, far harder. That wasn't the impression the Diamond guy gave at all. First amongst these awkward truths is "the hazard of...
[June 14, 1997, 8:00]
Analysis (3): Guy Kewney On Psion
News For example, there's US Robotics with its amazingly tiny Pilot palmtop; Sharp has just launched a pocket computer which is pretty neat; there are things like the Franklin Bookman at under $100 (compared to £400 for the 2Mb Psion 3c) and other...
[September 5, 1996, 14:56]
