18 Sep
2009
18 Sep
'09
4:11 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
One of the "Sherlock Ohms" series:
http://tinyurl.com/mzro9b
Cheers,
Chuck
"The battery was, of course, an extremely expensive custom job requiring a service
call.
Which was all the incentive we needed to solder a few batteries together, solder wires
to the ends, tape the whole thing with electrical tape, and connect that assemblage into
the disk drive. It didn?t fit, so it hung over the side of the drive looking thoroughly
disreputable. But it worked! This time, we didn?t try to hide our cleverness from the
physics kids, so we only got our usual allotted time, but we felt very virtuous and
superior. And a week or two later the service person replaced it with the real thing.
But I?ve always wondered what he or she thought of our handiwork"
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They were REALLY lucky DEC didn't cancel their service contract. Can you imagine what
an IBM or CDC FE would have done if he'd found something like that?