5 Jul
2007
5 Jul
'07
1:28 p.m.
On 05/07/2007 19:56, Tony Duell wrote:
My memory of working on the Sirius is that it was made
to be easy for
board-swappers (you almost never had to remove screws, only loosen them,
etc, and very difficult for real repairers (when the machine was
assembled you could get to vritually nothing, cables weren't long enough
to set it up in bits, and so on. Not quite as bad as the DEC Rainbow, but
close.
And it had a lot of very sharp edges. One our engineers (at CFM, now
Granada) used to wear gloves to take them apart.
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