9 Mar
2017
9 Mar
'17
2:59 a.m.
On Wed, 8 Mar 2017, Arthur Krewat wrote:
This is one of the reasons Telebit did the whole UUCP
"g" acceleration
in the Trailblazer/Worldblazer modems.
Yep, and they ran like the clappers; I can still remember its "moose
call" when it was syncing with the other end.
Ah, well I remember the time back at Strangled Tangled and Confused, when
we were being chipped by the accountoids for our long-distance modem
bills; when I explained to the suits that they were actually our head
office (bug reports and resolution etc), a couple of Trailblazers suddenly
appeared in our respective machine rooms.
$BABBAGE, but how I've hated middle managers since then...
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."