On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Jill Rowling wrote:
> In the dark ages you could get the typist to hang up the CP/M box by
> accidentally pressing SHIFT-BACKSPACE (same as ^P) on the dumb terminals.
> Used to go round with a paperclip and short out the appropriate pins on the
> DB25 to give it an ACK or something. I think we ended up telling them to
> just turn the printer on.
Not so dark-ages - I remember doing this myself, and had my very own
"insulated terminal reset utility tool" (i.e. paperclip)...
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