Reply to post: Re: Long ago.

'Can you just pop in to the office and hit the power button?' 'Not really... the G8 is on'

John Brown (no body) Silver badge

Re: Long ago.

"I read some years ago a story about an engineer. He could whistle down the phone line at just the right pitch to cause the remote modem / fax to respond.

No idea if that is true or not!"

First rule of propaganda. Repeat it often enough and it the people will believe it :-)

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