-----Original Message----- From: Tony Duell <ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Thursday, 19 November 1998 9:14 Subject: Re: Newbie's got a dead 386 On topic, I've tinkered with a number of monitors, and some really old ICL Terminals that we maintained for a small company in town that had some strange system. They had some interesting fault modes. (Circuit diagrams were non-existant of course) Ok, I'll bite, what in heck is a LART. I've seen this in NANAE but have no idea what it means in this context. I should also mention that when I got home that afternoon, after I realized just how close I came, I made a quiet phone call to the Dept of Labour and Industry, suggesting that this person was running what was effectively : 1) a sweat shop (we were on piece rates) 2) had people working on mains/high voltage equipment without proper safeguards. What annoyed me the most was that there was 1 ELCB in the whole place. Guess who's bench had it. Yep. The boss. He got a surprise visit the following week from a surly little inspector who went through the place like a dose of salts. Not sure how much it cost him in the end, but I know it hurt. I got 4 months back pay and some public holiday money paid. We got ELCB's for all the work benches and 2 isolated outlets per bench for hot chassis stuff. (We'd been asking for this for MONTHS, and were always told, nah, just be careful, you'll be right.) Cheers Geoff Roberts Computer Systems Manager Saint Marks College Port Pirie South Australia. My ICQ# is 1970476 Ph. 61-411-623-978 (Mobile) 61-8-8633-0619 (Home) 61-8-8633-8834 (Work-Direct) 61-8-8633-0104 (Fax)