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- From: JBrandt@AAA.Uoregon.EDU (Jason)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Breakthrough!
- Followup-To: alt.callahans
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 04:44:10 GMT
- Organization: The Polyhedron Group
- Lines: 50
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <JBrandt-260193202534@fp1-dialin-1.uoregon.edu>
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-
- Thyra and Pegasus are -both- looking over Jason's shoulder as he repeatedly
- tries to reconfigure the communications software on his cyberdeck. At times
- Thyra points to something on the holographic display and whispers a
- suggestion, or Pegasus gestures to the display with a wingtip and voices
- her opinion.
-
- Suddenly there is a hush among them, then Jason's voice. "OK, wait a minit.
- Here goes. . . . " Thyra and Jason cross their fingers, and Pegasus crosses
- her wings.
-
- Suddenly the display very rapidly fills with over a hundred overlapping
- windows.
- "YES!!!" shouts Jason. "Yippeeee! We did it!" Pegasus cries out in a whinny
- of delight. "At last!" cries Thyra. The three of them start dancing around
- the table Jason's cyberdeck is on, capering and laughing like they had just
- located the Holy Grail.
-
- Mike comes over to see what all the commotion is about. Thyra leaves Jason
- and Pegasus to their mad dance, and explains.
-
- "Well, in September and October, Pegasus had managed to get their home
- system to establish a -complete- tie-in with the campus network via modem.
- -Everything- worked almost as well as if they were on campus, including
- access to the newsgroups (and here) via Newswatcher, which is a Macintosh
- newsreader that's light years ahead of VNEWS on the VAX. But she hadn't
- written down just what it was that she did to get it to work. After two
- months, when they were both thoroughly -hooked- on having unrestricted news
- access, it suddenly stopped working. Since then, Pegasus especially, and
- Jason too, have been trying to get the link re-established. Between now and
- then, we've all been getting by with 'Timbuktu', a software setup that
- allowed us to remotely control Jason's office Mac. But that was really
- slow, and Pegasus couldn't do it when Jason was at work."
-
- "Well, we just got it working again! Evidently there was something wrong at
- the campus server's end, 'cause we had confirmed time and time again that
- our end was set up right. And we -hadn't- made changes at this end this
- time. Pegasus simply tried the software again, to see if -maybe- anything
- had changed. Anyway, it means we now have a heck of a lot faster access to
- all of the newsgroups now."
-
- Pegasus looks over and says "For a while. We'll see if it lasts this time."
-
- Jason shouts "Anyway, it works now! Mike, set up a round of free drinks, on
- our bill!" He tosses the smiling Irishman a credstick. "That should cover
- -at least- one free drink for every being in the Place tonight!"
-
- Pegasus, Thyra and Jason resume their capering and laughter.
-
- Wheee!
- Jason & Thyra & Pegasus, oh my!
-