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From: jcm@mtunb.ATT.COM (was-John McMillan)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.bugs
Subject: Re: bug in UNIXpc phone manager?
Keywords: 3b1 unixpc pc7300 garlic stakes
Message-ID: <1545@mtunb.ATT.COM>
Date: 29 Jun 89 13:27:14 GMT
References: <487@manta.pha.pa.us>
Reply-To: jcm@mtunb.UUCP (John McMillan)
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Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
In article <487@manta.pha.pa.us> brant@manta.pha.pa.us (Brant Cheikes) writes:
>
>My conclusion is that the phone manager or the machine itself is
>somehow generating spurious ringing.  This anomalous behavior happens
>only very rarely, e.g., weeks or months apart.  Has anyone else
>encountered this behavior?  Is it a known bug?


	We typically put a ring of garlic around a computer when this
	happens.  Then, we drive a stake through its CPU.

	The 3B1 lacks any circuits approaching the ring VOLTAGE spec's
	for a phone.  Perhaps you have a phone attached that is
	going mad.  ...Or is settling a grudge with you or the 3B1.
	Seriously, I'd certainly begin by moving the phone as far from
	the 3B1 (and planet) as possible.  Eating raw garlic before
	speaking into it is another obvious precaution.

 
	I've never heard anything approaching this sort of 3B1 tale
	before... but... news of the beginning of the end has to
	start somewhere!  Keep us posted on your journey through the
	bizarre... I'll try to help if I can see a way.

john mcmillan	-- att!mtunb!jcm