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From: res@ihlpl.UUCP (Rich Strebendt @ AT&T Information Systems - Indian Hill West; formerly)
Newsgroups: net.micro.att
Subject: Re: Re: Unix PC Noise (actually - recovery from pop-up call screen)
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Date: Fri, 30-May-86 18:30:39 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 30 18:30:39 1986
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In response to:

> The 20MB drive on my Unix PC is also quite loud.  Does anyone know if this
> is also the case with the larger capacity disks offered for the Unix PC?

I am running a UNIX PC/3B1 with the 67MB drive.  This drive is very
quiet.  The only sound from it is a sort of clicking sound when it is
doing seeks (from the stepper motor?).

> I've been running my system continuously for about 8
> months and am extremely pleased with the quality and speed of the machine.

I have not had mine for that long, but I also am VERY pleased with it.

> 3.	When running the terminal emulator (async-main), quite often the
> 	call screen pops up and then there is no way to resume or hang up
> 	the call other than to physically unplug the line (I was told by
> 	AT&T that there is a related problem here with getty being respawned
> 	repeatedly).  The best workaround is to use cu.  Also, there are
> 	cases when, after someone has dialed in remotely, the system
> 	seems to be in a confused state and cannot be switched successfully
> 	to VOICE or DATA.  The only solution I know of is a hardware reset.

With regard to the pop-up call screen while running the terminal
emulator.  The recovery procedure several of us here have been using is
much less drastic:
 1) Select the [w] icon at the top of the screen with the mouse.
 2) A menu will be displayed with entries like the following:
	
	Office of <login>
	Call Screen		or something to this effect
	Async VT100 Emulator
    
    Select the "Async VT100 Emulator" line
 3) Resume your terminal session.  The call screen and the list of
    active windows will both be gone and the emulator will be in
    control.  I have observed no untoward side effects of this
    procedure.

					Rich Strebendt
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