18 Sep
2009
18 Sep
'09
2:36 p.m.
One of the "Sherlock Ohms" series:
http://tinyurl.com/mzro9b
Cheers,
Chuck
18 Sep
18 Sep
4:11 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
One of the "Sherlock Ohms" series:
http://tinyurl.com/mzro9b
Cheers,
Chuck
"The battery was, of course, an extremely expensive custom job requiring a service
call.
Which was all the incentive we needed to solder a few batteries together, solder wires
to the ends, tape the whole thing with electrical tape, and connect that assemblage into
the disk drive. It didn?t fit, so it hung over the side of the drive looking thoroughly
disreputable. But it worked! This time, we didn?t try to hide our cleverness from the
physics kids, so we only got our usual allotted time, but we felt very virtuous and
superior. And a week or two later the service person replaced it with the real thing.
But I?ve always wondered what he or she thought of our handiwork"
---
They were REALLY lucky DEC didn't cancel their service contract. Can you imagine what
an IBM or CDC FE would have done if he'd found something like that?
5:55 p.m.
<snip>
They were REALLY lucky DEC didn't cancel their
service contract. Can
you imagine what
an IBM or CDC FE would have done if he'd found something like that?
My buddy,
the other "Al" who I have known for 35 years started out
helping at a college which had a 1443 printer attached to some sort of
larger machine (I think a System 3, but don't hold me to that). His
sport with the IBM CE was finding where the speed configuration was set
and tweaking it between PM calls. Nothing was ever said, but the
"adjustments" were always removed, and frequently bypasses would be
added to make the changes not work. So any adjustments were a game of
cat and mouse with the CE and nothing was said.
The UMR 360/50 was frequently adjusted by local staff as needed, but was
serviced up to the end of the service life of the machine when IBM
donated a large amount of new gear to the school to replace it. It was
unique in that it was purchased outright by the school, rather than
leasing. Also had an IBM approved custom channel interface to a Nova,
though very little was done with it.
Jim
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