From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] Harasing whistlers (Was: UUCP mis-history?)
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 08:29:29 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1703100825520.2854@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170309150644.6735918C11B@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
On Thu, 9 Mar 2017, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> Interesting: I've heard this same story, but told about TIPs and the
> ARPANET. A computer at BBN was set up to regularly dial all the TIP
> modem lines, to check that they were working. One line was always down,
> so they listened in, and heard some human say "it's just that pevert
> with the whistle again".
>
> I wonder which one was the original: anyone know for sure?
Now that takes me back; urban myth, because the calling modem didn't
squeak until the called modem did.
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-09 21:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-09 15:06 Noel Chiappa
2017-03-09 16:31 ` Ron Natalie
2017-03-09 21:29 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2017-03-09 22:54 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-10 0:31 ` Jason Stevens
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