CMWOLF@mtus5.cts.mtu.edu (03/24/91)
I don't mean to bother everyone, but could someone explain some of the terms and words used in a previous Digest post? I've pulled portions of the text from the document. The words marked with '*'s are the words or phrases I don't understand. > He was on the last of four *POTS lines, and the "ground on one side > of the pair was VERY obvious ... he reported that he had a *board > full of failures, and both *(60 ma. loop) *ASR-28's were *"running > open," too. POTS - what are they? 'ground on...obvious' - what does this mean? board - what is it? running open - what does this mean? > I quickly *(before the last pair died - a few minutes later) reminded > him to use the 156 mhz radio as needed, and had him drive down the > cable route to find the problem. What happens after the last pair dies? > Through some miracle, I got the *611-droid to wake up the Cable foreman > for the area. After several attempts, I got the one for the correct > district ;-}. *(The others went back to sleep.) 611-droid - what is this? back to sleep - huh?? > fire had been at a *corner pole, and had wiped out a *splice cap, too. A > four man crew, or maybe more, worked until late that afternoon. It was corner pole - what is it? splice cap - what is it? > What you REALLY want to do, John, is just get a *SLC-96 installed in > your basement ;^]. Then, next fire, all they would have to do is run > some new fibers. SLC-96 - what is it? I can guess at some of the stuff, like the SLC-96 having to be some sort of terminator for fiber optic cable, but most is WAY above me. If someone gets some time, could you mail me and explain some of the terms aboce, and some of the effects of some of the things mentioned? Thanks! Christopher Wolf