Ok, how about a series of some amusing tales from the warming of the ice
age.
One of my favorites was the company that called us saying that they
couldn't seem to transmit EDI to their partner. It was dial-up bisync
3780. The data would seem to *start* to go across, hang, then restart.
About a million times. It drove us nuts. Took nearly a week before we
could scope the line and finally realized that they'd used a <NAK> as a
segment terminator.
Or, back when we'd actually print out the EDI data from time to time. We
sent some data to the printer I thought that our IBM printer was melting.
My god, the NOISE!!! The client had used a ^G for a segment separator.
Back then, the ^G was the "Bell character" and was normally used to make
the printer go <bong> to tell the operator that the job was done.
Some other fun terms for your amusement
Cleo
Railinc
Zmodem
Kermit
T-Tables (I *know* some of you shuddered just then)
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