Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: John Higdon Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: TeleMouse Message-ID: <10006@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 22 Jul 90 05:25:26 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 28 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 506, Message 4 of 10 Remember the data circuit that I mentioned last week that runs between GTE and Pac*Bell land? This morning the client reported the circuit down once again. As is my practice, I verify the customer's equipment before turning in the report to telco. This, of course, is just a formality since the trouble is always found to be somewhere in GTE's equipment or lines. A call to the studio in San Jose revealed that the unit was functioning properly, it just didn't have data. So I took off to the mountaintop site in Los Gatos. Again the unit was functioning and transmitting data that was not getting through to the studio. I called telco and reported that the Los Gatos-->San Jose direction was not functioning. In the meantime I decided to do a little on-site inspection of the telco facilities. Who knows, maybe a jumper came loose or something like that. Opening the 1.1 box cover revealed six (count em), six very startled mice huddled in among the wiring. Yucch! I beat on the box causing the mice to scatter in every direction and then located the jumper for the data circuit. It had been chewed through. Reconnection restored normal operation. I called and cancelled the trouble report. It was the usual Mickey Mouse GTE trouble, but with a slightly different twist. BTW, anyone know how to clean mouse p*ss off of a terminal box? John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !