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echo: fidonews
to: PAUL QUINN
from: KURT WEISKE
date: 2018-06-25 22:20:00
subject: Re: The 000 country phone

-=> Paul Quinn wrote to BjArn Felten <=-

 PQ> You probably missed the memo.  There hasn't been any such danger for
 PQ> quite some time.  The last active analogue modem in all of Z3 is in a
 PQ> locked perspex display box, at the residence of his excellency the Z3C.

He could have just added ATL0 to the dialing string to turn the speaker off
if it was making so much noise it needed to be boxed.

Oh, those were the days. I kept my modem at L1 in a closet, and I'd hear
the sound of the modem during the night. I never had a problem going back
to sleep, surprisingly.



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