Re:Why do printers still suck?
by zaphirplane on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @01:31AM
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How would you call them without disconnecting yourself ? Presumably you had one phone line
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Re:Why do printers still suck?
by spacemanmatt on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @07:18AM
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I did have two lines, but if I couldn't get on the chat board, they were both free to call-waste a few likely users. God, we were savages.
I think they are saying they couldn't connect as all lines were busy, so they would call someone they assumed was connected, causing the other person to drop off and free up a line, and then try and get that free line.
Re:Why do printers still suck?
by wccrawford on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @06:39AM
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I think call waiting "beep beep" would also cause disconnects a lot of the time, if the person had that.
Re:Why do printers still suck?
by spacemanmatt on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @07:17AM
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It was specifically the call-waiting beeps that interrupted the modem connection. I recall my 300 baud modem tolerating it, but 12/2400 (and higher) could not recover from the interruption.
You could set how long the modems would wait for reconnect. We had a service that offered free phone calls with 15 seconds interruption for ads now and then. Worked fine for free bbs time if you knew how to set it :)