12 Jun
2007
12 Jun
'07
9:05 a.m.
From: "Ashley Carder":
Are there any former DEC employees (or anyone else)
here who have ever
seen or heard of anything like this?
A friend of mine who is a former DEC employee once told me a war story
about being given a "prototype" terminal to take home. He said the PCBs
were thin, and kind of flexible, like the cardboard sheets in the back of a
tablet of paper, and the thing was very tempermental -- even after you got
it working again the MTBF was in hours. He said he eventually threw the
accursed thing away.
I wonder if this is one of those?
Vince