[165803] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: iOS 7 update traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Taylor)
Fri Sep 20 07:57:28 2013
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 07:57:03 -0400
From: Tom Taylor <tom.taylor.stds@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <523BA4F8.7030705@utc.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 19/09/2013 9:29 PM, Jeff Kell wrote:
> On 9/19/2013 5:29 PM, Warren Bailey wrote:
>> So you understand things aren't always metro e.. That's what I was trying to say. I still have a coupler.. ;)
>>
>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: Fred Reimer <freimer@freimer.org>
>>
>> Actually, I started out with a 300 baud acoustic modem. You know, the kind where you take the handset and jam it into two cups? But I digress…
>
> Bah! That was a take-home convenience. How about the old ASR TeleType
> with the 110-baud link to get a hardcopy listing?
>
> Jeff
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Ah, distinctly I remember. The ASR shook the whole house when it started
typing things out. I was using a government tie line from Ottawa to
Toronto, and occasionally the operator would break in to investigate the
long call with funny noises.
Tom
