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It was long ago, when almost nobody had a 2400 baud modem, hardly anyone knew of the Arpanet, and pocket pagers were a rarity. Everything’s changed: today, alm
by CliffStoll 4y ago
It was long ago, when almost nobody had a 2400 baud modem, hardly anyone knew of the Arpanet, and pocket pagers were a rarity.
Everything’s changed: today, almost nobody has a 2400 baud modem, hardly anyone knows of the Arpanet, and pocket pagers are a rarity.
- JanneVee 4y agoI remember that humor from Silicon Snake Oil, it was a wonderful book. I think back to it when working in an industry where everyone takes a tractable problem and makes it intractable for "job security".
- zabzonk 4y agoWeren't they 2800, not 2400? I always liked the sounds they made when they were dialling up. Nobody will ever miss pagers, IMHO. I used to have to carry one to support a trading server at a bank (Credit Suisse, somewhat topically) and I used to dread it going off in the middle of the night because something had gone horribly wrong in Hong Kong. We eventually re-wrote the server so it was trivial to restart & managed to shuffle off responsibility for it to the locals. Bye-bye pager and good riddance! Liked your books, BTW!
- Gordonjcp 4y ago> pocket pagers are a rarity. Unless you're a retained or volunteer firefighter, he said, looking at the box of a thousand pagers that need programmed up and sent out.
- Freewoll 4y agoAfter I read The Cuckoo's Egg many years ago, I sent you a goofy fan email and you replied! Totally amazed by this whole instant world connectivity thing. 1 1 was a race horse... Still got a dot matrix printout of it somewheres... :)