Proposal: "Legacy" Open Products Partition - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

9 May 1998

...
 > Yes, we should have "levels" of
experience.  So that a Level 1 job could be
...

Does this need to be done formally? I mean, when, for example, I bought
the service manual for my monitor, or the IBM techrefs, nobody bothered
to check I knew what I was doing with them. They just took my payment and
sent the manual. 

Not really formally, perhaps semi-formally.  All pages would be rated, but
we're not going to have an exam or anything.
...
 While we need to be not responsible for how the
information is used, I
think that should be the end of it. 

Yes, but just to give an aprox. guide.  For instance, if someone wants to
fix their old mono monitor, and they have a Level 2 hardware experience,
they wouldn't want to read  the Level 5 document, especially if they're
busy, and don't want to spend too much time.  It could also be used to give
people a basic feeling of what they can-and cannot do.

...
 Perhaps you could enlighten me. I know of only one way
to fix a PCB -
look for obvious failures/shorts, power it up and start tracing signals
with a logic analyser. Is that the easy way or the hard way, and what is
the other way. 

That's the hard way.  There are 2 easy ways that I know of: 1) Take it to a
shop or 2) Get a new one.

Tim D. Hotze