🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Apr9.211853.9267@linus.mitre.org> dhf@marie.mitre.org (David H. Friedman) writes:
>
>.  I know that the IBM-PCUG BBS has been going through some software
>changes lately, and there have been periods of trouble with some of
>the modems. Lately, whenever I get on, I'll get spurious noise
>characters occurring in random bursts. Also, whenever I'm at one of
>the color menus and I enter a character, instead of going directly to
>the next menu, my screen will clear and I'll get the prompt
>
>Command:
>
>which seems to be satisfied if I just hit C/R.
>
>   The random characters make it very difficult to enter a message to
>the sysops. If I try to enter a file offline and upload it, the random
>characters mess up my selections on the protocol menu.
>
>   Has anyone else been noticing this? I don't think it's my phone
>line (from home, that is, in Burlington, MA) - I use CompuServe with
>no problems at all. It may be the particular path from my 617/270-
>exchange to the BBS 2400 baud members' line.
>
>dhf


If you are referring to the BCS's IBM group BBS, it has been having modem
problems as of late.  The modems seem to have minds of their own and answer
whtn they feel like it.  I believe the problems were corrected.

Ed


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Edward P. Piecewicz                       Internet:  edwardp@cs.umb.edu

Opinions expressed are my own and not those of UMass/Boston.