Dnia 26.05.2020 o godz. 13:06:54 Bill Gee pisze: > Almost completely irrelevant, but still an interesting (and true!) story > ... About 30 years ago I started a job at an insurance company. At that > time less than half the company had PCs. Most had 3270 green screen > terminals. The corporate email was SYSM running on a System 370 > mainframe. Someone had cleverly arranged things so that whenever you got > an email, it would send you a voice mail. > > Fast-forward 25 years: After several acquisitions and many changes of > email, the company is now running on Exchange. Someone very clever rigged > up a system so that whenever you got a voice mail, it sent you an email. > > How things go around!
Well, that reminds me of a thought that came to me a few years ago when I looked at my desk. There is a computer, a telephone and some "box" to which these two are connected. About 20 years ago there was also a computer, a telephone, and some "box" to which these two were connected. But that "box" 20 years ago was a dial-up modem. My computer was accessing the Internet via that modem, connected to a telephone line. Now I don't have a telephone line anymore. An Ethernet cable is coming out of my wall, connected to my home router which has an integrated VoIP gateway. A telephone is connected to the router, and I make phone calls over the Internet... :) -- Regards, Jaroslaw Rafa r...@rafa.eu.org -- "In a million years, when kids go to school, they're gonna know: once there was a Hushpuppy, and she lived with her daddy in the Bathtub."
