On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 8:10 AM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote: DEC was really good about things not being damaged from backwards cables. Much better than most vendors. I'm sure someone can come up with a horror story, but mostly, it's good. What _was_ bad was some of the OMNIBUS boards in the PDP-8/e, specifically, the quad boards with 8 fingers (because they attached to their neighbors via H851 connector blocks) and no maroon/green plastic handles. I heard a tale from someone that Field Circus plugged in a board upside-down into their machine and toasted some stuff. -ethan