Re: RFC: 1994 ProgSoc Equipment Budget

Paul Damien McLachlan (pdmclach@nospam.socs.uts.EDU.AU)
Fri, 3 Jun 1994 11:24:22 +1000 (EST)

On Fri, 3 Jun 1994, James Frank Torrent wrote:

> 2 modems will make things nice for 2 people at a time, a new machine with
> lots of ram will be usefull to many more people at a time.
>
> I think buying modems would be a big waste of money and progsoc's potential
> as a political [mafia] type organisation.
> ie: can someone talk 'whoever' into moving the two staff modems from a
> linus login prompt to a lucy login so we can do assignments, or has this
> been done already ? .... and what about that flow control "problem" ?
>
> A new machine please.

I agree. I don't believe that two modems will make that much difference. The
night before an assignment is due most people are on autodial anyway....

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