Subject: Re: Off-Topic -- Modem Alert
To: Tracy Nelson <tnelson158@attbi.com>
From: Sung N. Cho <sucho2@vt.edu>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/16/2002 19:12:35
Tracy Nelson wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <oinkfreebiker@att.net>
> > Maybe you all already knew this. But I did not. And it
> > cost me over two hundred bucks to fix!
>
> [ Sad tale of analog vs. PBX deleted ]
>
> Don't know whether you're luckier than me or not.  On my first job I plugged
> my new  MultiTech 1200 (yes, this was Back In The Day), into my PBX port.
> The $400 modem was just fine, but I blew out a $1200 four-port card in the
> PBX.  I quickly hid the evidence, and told my boss that I didn't think the
> modem would work with our PBX, and we should get an analog line for it.

Man!  This modem thing is becoming a chapter in some comic edition or
something.  I can't keep myself from laughing reading the above message.

Sung