Roy, at 22:37 on Tue, Jan 17 1995, you wrote to Bill Grimsley ...

 BG> Hey Paul, will you please fix your heap-of-shit Spirit, or 
 BG> piss it off and buy a real modem?  On at least six different 
 BG> occasions in the last fortnight, the modems negotiate, then 
 BG> just as I'd expect a connect message, the sequence starts again, 
 BG> but just with a single tone which continues until I drop carrier.  

 RM> Try one of those old-fashioned USR modems  - I've 
 RM> only had the odd bad connection here, and often I could hear 
 RM> it was crappy during the negotiation.

Get stuffed Rot |-)

While in Sydney this time, I was using Jack's old Rockwell V.32 modem, and
I guess it's one of the older ones that doesn't like Spirits.  Nice to see
that it at least has some taste.  |-)

Regards, Bill

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