US Robotics 56k Modems

Re:US Robotics 56k Modems by silisili on Saturday October 30, 2021 @01:32AM (#29046230)

I worked in Medicare claims EDI years ago, but still in the modern era. 2008ish? Anyhow, back then at least, ALL claims were required to be submitted via dial up modems. These doctors offices with fiber optics were befuddled, and rightly so. The biggest complaint was that they couldn't even find modems to buy anymore, and USR is where we pointed them to.

Between that and the magic of modem commands, it really felt like everything you learned at that job was useless. Turns out, it was.

No idea if it's still the same way today, but it wouldn't surprise me.

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Re:US Robotics 56k Modems by kcrx on Saturday October 30, 2021 @12:51PM (#29050214)

I used to work for the company that did tech support for McDonald’s. They were still using USR modems to transmit data from restaurants to corp way into the 2010s, like 2015 or 2016!? They sucked to troubleshoot because nobody knew what a modem was anymore, but on the other hand, they were kinda indestructible.

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