Speaking of dial up... I remember on a trip I got the hotel sometime after 2am (bad weather, bad flight). I was trying to dial out from hotel - 9 to get an outside line, then "pause" and then 1 for long distance and 202 for the area code. I mistyped the phone number or something, and I was not getting connected but kept trying.  There was a knock at the door and "Police, everything ok". I answered and explained that I guess I had mistakenly dialed 911. They did check the room and then left. I gave up, went to bed, muttering that my email would just have to wait. Geoff On 2/17/20 5:41 PM, Mike Lyon wrote:

Then call waiting came out and would disconnect the session sometimes. That sucked ass.

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On Feb 17, 2020, at 16:37, Scott Weeks <surfer@mauigateway.com> wrote:



I can't help myself... :)

My mother in the 1980s: "no one can ever call us because the phone line is always busy"

Me with an Osborne 1 and a 300 baud modem: "We need a second phone line!" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_1)

My mother: "That's too expensive. Quit clogging up the phone line with that toy!"

Me: "Ok...Pshhhkkkkkkrrrr​kakingkakingkakingtsh​chchchchchchchcch​*ding*ding*ding*" (*)

I never would've guessed in those days that it would provide me an entire professional career.

scott

(*) I copied Pshhhkkkkkkrrrr​kakingkakingkakingtsh​chchchchchchchcch​*ding*ding*ding* from a website as I could not spell that.