[co.general] Byte's DEMOLINK access

tkoppel@diana.cair.du.edu (The Great and Powerful) (04/27/91)

This month's Byte magazine (page 10) announces access to DEMOLINK 
which is supposed to be  piggybacking on someone's network to get Byte 
listings and sample programs.  Cleverly, they give access numbers
(Denver, Los Angeles, hicago, New York, etc.) but they do NOT give a 
trouble number  or any sort of help contact.  The problem is that
the Denver answering modem (or its phone line) is really bad -- there is
an incredible amount of line noise - to the point that you can't read 
the prompts much less do the downloads -- Xmodem gags with all of the garbage
on that connection.  Does anyone from Byte read this newsgroup? 
Who would I contact? Phone or email?  Etc.

Ted

PS - it isn't my modem or my phone line.  I use my phone/modem constantly for
data and have never lost a character.


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