[ih] Yet another subject change: Testing (Was Re: Gateway Issue: Certification (was Re: booting linux on a 4004))

[John Day]

I have heard the same story, but there was a bit more detail. As I remember it, the line from Santa Barbara to Menlo Park (that could be wrong) was flaky and it acted a peculiar way when it was about to go down. The NOC saw it acting that way, and called PacBell. Told them their line such and such from Santa Barbara to Menlo Park was about to go down. The conversation went like this:
PacBell: You're in Santa Barbara?
NOC: No.
PacBell: You’re in Menlo Park?
NOC: No.
PacBell: Then where ARE you?!! (there may have been an expletive in there.) ;-)
NOC: Cambridge, Massachusetts.
PacBell: Yea, right!!
and hung up.
then the line went down.  ;-)

> On Oct 3, 2024, at 21:28, Dave Crocker via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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> On 10/3/2024 6:21 PM, Jack Haverty via Internet-history wrote:
>> But an Operator, or IMP programmer, could look back at the paper logs and often discover an imminent problem, or see the events which led up to a reported problem to be fixed.
> 
> I heard a story that in the early days, NOC folk would see an increasing rate of errors on a link, contact the relevant phone company -- not all were AT&T -- and tell them that that line was about to fail.  The phone folk reportedly had no experience with a customer's offering such predictions and were initially dismissive.  I was told that that attitude changed quickly...
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