12 Jun
2001
12 Jun
'01
5:16 p.m.
Quoting Tony Duell <ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk>uk>:
I enjoy tracing faults. I enjoy repairing things that
have been
claimed to be unrepairable.
A fellow enthusiast that was the source of my first PDP-11 gets the
same enjoyment. One time, he had just finished readying a PDP-8 to
run and turned it on. Unfortunately, he did not notice the ground
wire that was wandering around loosely in the card cage! The PDP
lit up like a christmas tree. It took him nearly a year of work to
locate and repair all the faults, but he succeeded. He keeps every
one of the faulty components in a drawer somewhere as a memorial to
his victory.
--
Jeffrey S. Sharp
jss(a)ou.edu