Skip to content
The Beige Years

US RoboticsSold at the Top, Bought at the Bottom

Buying US Robotics, 3Com recorded merger charges of $426 million in the first quarter of fiscal 1998.

Casey Cowell sold US Robotics at the top of the modem business, and 3Com bought the bottom.

Subject
US Robotics, the modem company, 1976 to 2000: the Courier and Sportster, the HST and 56k standards wars, the Palm acquisition, the 3Com merger, and why the modem business ended, 1976
Chapters
7
Sources
8
Credits
17
Corrections
0

Sources

8
  • Article5
  • Interview3

Numbered in the order the description lists them. Read dates are when the page was consulted; the live page may have changed since.

  1. [1]
  2. [2]
  3. [3]
  4. [4]
  5. [5]
  6. [6]
  7. [7]
  8. [8]

Image & music credits

17
  • CC BY-SA 4.010
  • CC BY-SA 3.02
  • CC BY-SA 2.02
  • CC BY 3.02
  • License unknown1

17 photos, from the hosts linked below. Each file name links to the file's page, which carries the full license terms.

Corrections

No corrections logged since publication.

Found something wrong? Write to [email protected] with the timestamp and the source that contradicts it. Corrections are logged here with the date.