Is it my Obi or is it my internet causing problems?
Robert.Thompson:
Thanks people! :)
I really appreciate your time and suggestions.
Rob.
Lavarock7:
Quote from: ipse on January 02, 2013, 10:57:35 am
Dammit man! Why did you have to remind me how old I am to remember that time? :)
A few things:
1) I like to try to solve problems by one of 2 methods:
a) Coming up with a novel view that others may not have considered
b) The Jeanne Dixon effect (look her up). Throw out as many ideas as you can and people will remember the one you suggested that solved the problem
2) I also have a tendency of giving some background information that although may (or may not) solve the problem at hand, but may help others to solve similar problems.
3) Sometimes I forget the question
4) Sometimes I forget the answer (Once I saw my name in the middle of documentation on an MS-DOS replacement. As I download the manual and read it, I soon remembered that a decade earlier I had offered to pass the guys manual through out mainframes text formater, making his stuff more readable). [This answer includes 2, 3 and also part of 4]
::)
Ostracus:
Quote from: ipse on January 02, 2013, 10:57:35 am
Quote from: Lavarock7 on January 02, 2013, 09:58:45 am
Decades ago we used to use analog phones that hung on the wall or sat on the desk and were built to the then standard of the telephone company. They had a screw-type plastic cup that covered the mouthpiece and earpiece. This handheld unit connected to the telephone base with a coiled cord. The mouthpiece was a carbon granule disc and could exhibit what was called "carbon granule compaction". If you removed the mouthpiece and gently rapped it on the desk, the problem went away (for a while).
Dammit man! Why did you have to remind me how old I am to remember that time? :)
Just wait till he gets to "hand cranking" and "party lines". ;D
giqcass:
LOL! I'm not quite old enough to remember the party lines but my brothers and sister do. They have told me some stories. Anyone who doesn't know what they are check it out on Wikipedia for a good laugh. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_line_%28telephony%29
Basically you had to wait your turn to use the phone and anyone in the neighborhood could pick up the phone and listen in.
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