1 Nov
1998
1 Nov
'98
1:58 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
Used all the time in debugging and diagnostic of new systems and if I
told you the technique Compaq would kill ME.
--Mitch
-tony
I also started out learning computer hardware on
the PDP 11/45 at Maynard.
The only thing hard about the class was trying to figure out what those
You went to a class? I had the machine, the printsets and a logic probe.
And no list like this one to ask for help when I got confused...
hyroglyphics were that described somehow the
internal workings of the thing
:). Hardware repair was pretty much limited to putting tape on one of the
board gold fingers so it didn't make proper contact when the board was
reinstalled.
Eh? I can understand why that might introduce a 'deliberate fault' which
you'd have to find, but I can't think of a diagnostic technique where
isolating odd pins of the 11/45 CPU modules would be that useful.