[TUHS] Harasing whistlers (Was: UUCP mis-history?)
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Fri Mar 10 07:29:29 AEST 2017
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.
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