MONASH UNIVERSITY COMPUTER CENTRE - MODEM DIAL-UP SERVICES
Users of the Greater Monash University can now access the computer systems
via modems 24 hours except when they are out of order. All four campuses
are equipped with dial-in lines which under normal circumstances should be
either engaged or not operational.
Your modem and communications software should be set up to operate in
8-bit mode with no parity and 1 stop bit. Except when it shouldn't. Which
may or may not be the case when and if you are using the dial-ins.
Modems at Clayton Campus can utilise the MNP-4 error correcting
protocol. But don't. 'Cos to be honest, we haven't worked out how to turn
the bloody things on yet. If anyone has any ideas, please tell. Well, they
were a job lot going cheap without manuals, you know how it is...
-- Daniel Bowen's TOXIC CUSTARPEDIA.
Users of the Greater Monash University can now access the computer systems
via modems 24 hours except when they are out of order. All four campuses
are equipped with dial-in lines which under normal circumstances should be
either engaged or not operational.
Your modem and communications software should be set up to operate in
8-bit mode with no parity and 1 stop bit. Except when it shouldn't. Which
may or may not be the case when and if you are using the dial-ins.
Modems at Clayton Campus can utilise the MNP-4 error correcting
protocol. But don't. 'Cos to be honest, we haven't worked out how to turn
the bloody things on yet. If anyone has any ideas, please tell. Well, they
were a job lot going cheap without manuals, you know how it is...
-- Daniel Bowen's TOXIC CUSTARPEDIA.
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(alt. `bit-shift
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(originally,
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Not much of a career to get into if you can help it.
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random broken people.
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at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon Wednesday... - Some things have to be believed to
be seen...
