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echo: suprafax
to: SIMON SLATER
from: PHIL ROBERTS
date: 1997-02-16 16:06:00
subject: WIERDEST THING!!!

-=[ Quoting Simon Slater to Leon Kiriliuk ]=-
 LK> A REALLY wierd thing happened yesterday, while the modem was
 LK> waiting for a call, the "OK" changed into this small dot that was
 LK> actually moving on the screen from the bottom left corner to the
 LK> middle, and then exploding!
 LK> It looked like a firecracker display! and it kept on going until I
 LK> reset it!!! Anybody else had this wierd thing happen to them
 LK> before???
 SS> the problem won't be your modem more like a bug or virus...
It's just a harmless Easter egg in the modem.  S194=136 turns it on.  I've
tried it and it doesn't hurt anything.  I do fear that it steals processor
time from the modem and makes the modem more sluggish to respond.
                                Phil
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