21 Apr
2012
21 Apr
'12
4:31 p.m.
> DA15 adapter to "repair" a video
projector whose cable had been abused.
> (I did not want to risk having a college administrator catch me soldering,
On Sat, 21 Apr 2012, Tony Duell wrote:
Why ever not?
One of my colleagues was "caught" soldering a repair in a college computer
lab (that was closed at the time)! That was one of four offenses for
which they tried to fire him. The others included telling an "instructor"
that he was NOT available to come help her and to learn how to do her own
"reset" when the computer was "locked", refusing to change the grade
to passing for a student whose program crashed instead of a clean exit to
the OS, and removing discarded computers from the dumpster.
While he was banned from campus, they removed and destroyed everything in
his office, which included a SOL, some Northstars, 6? bookcases of PC
Tech Journal, Dr Dobbs, IBM Technical References for all models, etc.
(Yes, he DID have the 8514 and EGA trch refs)
His office was densely packed, with mostly classic microcomputers.
The mediator told them that they did NOT have adequate grounds to fire
him, and he has been reinstated.
No, I do not want to be caught soldering on campus.