Xref: utzoo rec.humor:18650 rec.humor.d:1581 comp.misc:4988 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!blake!ogccse!littlei!omepd!merlyn From: merlyn@intelob.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz @ Stonehenge) Newsgroups: rec.humor,rec.humor.d,comp.misc Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore Message-ID: <4121@omepd.UUCP> Date: 9 Feb 89 00:08:43 GMT References: <7143@pyr.gatech.EDU> Sender: news@omepd.UUCP Reply-To: merlyn@intelob.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz @ Stonehenge) Organization: Stonehenge; netaccess via BiiN, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA Lines: 28 Back in the early days, I was using an ADM-3 from a friend's house (hi Greg Jorgenson!) with an old acoustical-coupled modem. The modem was attached used on the house phone... a party line (!). We were accustomed to getting bumped with funny little noise characters when the party-liners would try to pickup the phone for a call, but otherwise tied up the line for the usual hours-on-end we hackers are known for. One day, we picked up the phone to make a call, and found that the party-liners were on it (two female voices). Since we had nothing better to do, we decided to listen in. The conversation went something like: Voice 1: Did you just hear that? Voice 2: Yeah, it was a click. Must be our party line. Voice 1: A party line? Does that mean they are listening to us? Voice 2: I don't think they can. All I can hear when they are talking is some beeps. We scrambled to hang up the phone to cover our instant hysterical laughter. Little did they know... :-) -- Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 on contract to BiiN (for now :-), Hillsboro, Oregon, USA. ARPA: <@iwarp.intel.com:merlyn@intelob.intel.com> (fastest!) MX-Internet: UUCP: ...[!uunet]!tektronix!biin!merlyn Standard disclaimer: I *am* my employer! Cute quote: "Welcome to Oregon... home of the California Raisins!"