22 Aug
2019
22 Aug
'19
6:23 p.m.
On 08/22/2019 02:09 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
Many ages ago, I worked for a company that made 12-bit
computers for radiation treatment planning. they palleted a
computer and shipped it to Holland for a trade show. At the
arrival airport, somebody pushed it out of the cargo bay
with no conveyor belt below, and it fell something like 30
feet to the ground. the pallet was reduced to splinters,
and the case of the machine was seriously MASHED. The techs
who were going to set it up didn't think it had any chance
of working, but they pulled all the boards, beat on the case
some to straighten it, put the boards back in, and it fired
right up! The machine was later returned to the US and was
used as a
"test mule".
Jon