jbaltz@cunixe.cc.columbia.edu (Jerry B. Altzman) (07/18/90)
In article <9839@accuvax.nwu.edu> Patrick Townsend writes: >[Moderator's Note: *Something* happens here every morning at 1:37 AM. >If I am online to Northwestern at that moment, the modem connection is >dropped and I have to dial back in. Every day, no exceptions. I do not >know if it is Illinois Bell or something at Northwestern. PT] And if you think *that*'s bad, our multimillion dollar ROLM switch has to switch over from one set of nodes to the alternate set every morning at 0400, dropping outside modem connections (and for a while, also cutting off voice communications and internal datacomm) I'm not sure if they still do this, but for the first 6 months or so, every morning at 0400, >click< DISCLAIMER: This isn't Columbia. This is me. Columbia is them. jerry b. altzman 212 854 8058 jbaltz@columbia.edu jauus@cuvmb (bitnet) NEVIS::jbaltz (HEPNET) ...!rutgers!columbia!jbaltz (bang!)