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On Wednesday, April 30, 2014 10:19:23 AM UTC+1, wrote:
On Wed, 30 Apr 2014 05:16:19 +0100, Bill Wright

wrote:







About twenty years ago I suffered a lot of righteous indignation coming


down the phone from a TV shop in Pentland, Edinburgh. The TV


distribution system we had installed JUST DIDN'T WORK! NONE




240 miles later I found that all the sets on that stand were Thompson


ones, and the default autotune was to find nothing but French signals.




It's that Auld Alliance thing between the Haggis and Snail eaters

kicking in again. I expect they are looking foward to restarting it

soon.



G.Harman


Many years ago we spent a fruitless afternoon trying to get a simple two computer wired network work under Windows 3. Tried everything, every which way. No Joy. Sat back and said lets start from the very beginning. IS computer A connected to computer B ? Bollix