There is a piece about databases in ba dives that can be used. if no room for this hold out hold out.) Pars end with (have lost q/l for now)There were thousands and thousands of thin red and white coated twisted copper wires. Two of those pairs were mine and they were not behaving themselves.
That was Friday inside the bowels of the Civic Telephone Exchange, but the story starts before then.
It starts with a shiny new Banksia modem which came in one of those video covers. It had the words Fax Modem on it. And the letters PCMCIA (presumably the post-Cold War US secret service is now usefully making fax modems). Anyway, it is a state of the art, matchbox sized modem that slots into a notebook computer and enables you to send text and faxes down the phone line.
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