David, at 19:51 on Jun 15 1995, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

BG> Anyway, David's board is back up again, and I'm afraid to ask him what went 
BG> wrong, in case he thinks I'm having a sly dig at him again (it wasn't the 
BG> first time he crashed, you know).

DD> I may be old and toothless, but I'm not bloody blind mate!

Sorry, I keep forgetting that you stopped when you only needed glasses.

DD> The reason the board "crashed" was that I
"upgraded" my idiotproof modem's 
DD> FlashROM.  Two new speeds meant that Binkley now exits with two new 
DD> errorlevels.  The problem came about when I forgot to trap these new 
DD> errorlevels.

Oh shit, how could you have overlooked something as basic as that?

DD> When someone called at 33,600 on Saturday arvo it exited with an errorlevel 
DD> of 80 (decimal) which performed some batch operation and recycled back to 
DD> Binkley.  The entity tried to connect again and got 31,200 which exits with 
                  ^^^^^^
Must have been Russ Brooks then, was it?  |-)

DD> an errorlevel of 56.  I didn't have 56 trapped.  I did have 50 trapped 
DD> however which drops into a local log listing routine and waits for keyboard
DD> input.  When I got home and pressed escape, the BBS came back up.

I'd have though that PLC might have called around and checked it out, given
that it crashed not very long after you and Jill had left.  No matter, I
had plenty of other stuff to occupy my mind over the weekend - a new
neighbour has moved in, and they have ... wait for it ... a bloody CAT !!! 
|-)

DD> Modems - harrumph!

Yeah, I couldn't agree more.  In fact, they're such pains in the arse, that
I genuinely believe you should be seriously considering getting rid of the
bloody thing.  Being non-standard though, I can only offer you $50 for it,
but I'm sure you'll find that offer more than agreeable.

Regards, Bill
@EOT:

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