Are office people really that, umm shall we say...slow?

From: Messick, Gary <Gary.Messick_at_itt.com>
Date: Tue Aug 28 08:47:58 2001

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk [mailto:ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk]
> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 7:48 PM
> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: Are office people really that, umm shall we say...slow?
>
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>
> The most amusing (after the event) version of that was the idiot who
> connected the BNC on the back of a VT220 to a thinwire
> ethernet network.
> No, it didn't do any lasting damage, but needless to say the
> network went
> down...
>
> [for the uninitiated, the BNC socket on a VT220 is a composite video
> output...]
>
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We had a secretary do that once on an early Novel network, didn't bring it
down, just made it VERY SLOW. (The only thing we could figure was that it
allowed data during the re-trace(?).

Gary
Received on Tue Aug 28 2001 - 08:47:58 BST