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Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery
From: [email protected] (Paul Tomblin)
Subject: Re: Exceprt from a phone screen
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 1998 16:21:13 GMT
In a previous article, "Chris King" <[email protected]> said:
>I was the only one of the three that knew that there were differences between
>PC's and dumb terminals. And I was the only one of the three who hadn't used
>them on the course. [4]
Yeah, but have you ever had the Helpless Desk droid ask you what terminal
emulator you were running on your vt220? I have.
"I don't need a terminal EMULATOR. It's a bleeding terminal."
"I'm sorry, but you can't connect to our system unless you're running some
sort of terminal emulator."
"It doesn't have to emulate a terminal, it is one."
"So what is it, Procomm, Telix?"
"No, it's a vt220 TERMINAL. Made by DEC. Connected to a modem. I type AT
DTxxx-xxxx and I get connected normally. Today your system doesn't answer the
phone. I want to know if your modem bank is down."
"Sorry, I can't answer your question unless I get some information on your
system."
"ARRGGGGHHH!!!"
--
Paul Tomblin ([email protected]) I don't buy from spammers.
"Tower zero one request clearance for takeoff."
"Cleared runway three contact ground point six three when off the runway."
- Michael Crichton destroys whatever technical credibility he had left.
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