Re: Fun with Serial lines.
"Turns out some vibration had loosened the nuts"
A video terminal on a naval air base kept losing its sessions intermittently. It was connected to the network by "thin" Ethernet. It was eventually found that there was a poor connection inside the wall socket.
That sounds simple - but the vibration had to be quite excessive to produce the fault. Someone finally twigged that it only happened when a Harrier jet was doing a vertical take-off/landing on the concrete pad outside that building.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
