To: freedumb2003
Dear God... 300 baud acousic coupled on a rotary dial POTS. I've done that. On a pay phone with a genset running in the trunk of a Lincoln Mark IV and a VT-100 in the back seat.
Backed up into a Quiky-Mart parking lot.
Ack... that sounds like a very old and very bad novel.
/johnny
To: JRandomFreeper
17 posted on
11/13/2013 7:53:47 PM PST by
null and void
(I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
To: JRandomFreeper
>>Dear God... 300 baud acousic coupled on a rotary dial POTS. I’ve done that. On a pay phone with a genset running in the trunk of a Lincoln Mark IV and a VT-100 in the back seat.<<
Beat the hell out of driving into the office to hotfix a C04 error.
The problem was that we went from the ABILITY to remote access to the REQUIREMENT we do so.
27 posted on
11/13/2013 8:38:28 PM PST by
freedumb2003
(Fight Tapinophobia in all its forms! Do not submit to arduus privilege.)
To: JRandomFreeper
And at the time it was just the coolest thing...
37 posted on
11/14/2013 6:00:56 AM PST by
Gamecock
(If you have to be One,be a Big Red One.)
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