Re: [Hampshire] Recurrent Hardware Problem

Paul Tansom wrote:
> Believe it or not this was as recent as 2000!!

In the early days of my current employer we had dial-up support connections to
most of our customers systems. This involved a dial back password protected
modem at thier end and a phone line we had to call to get enabled first.

The fun bit was we conncted the audio of the sun box to the dial up/down scripts
so that various sounds were played when a support line changed status.
The best one was cow bells for a jersey telecoms link :-)

Things have moved on but I found the modem the most reliable and probably secure
system - today we need entire machines dedicated to connecting to an individual
client :-(

Jacqui