Board swapping (was Re: General Question about UNIBUS backplanes)

[David Brownlee]

On 24 May 2016 4:45 pm, "Ethan Dicks" <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 11:36 AM, william degnan <billdegnan at gmail.com>
wrote:
> > On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 11:17 AM, js at cimmeri.com <js at cimmeri.com> wrote:
> >> B, what was the issue with the core, that you fixed it so fast?
> >
> > I guessed that the G114 was bad based on a hunch.
> >
> > I had a spare.
>
> Q. How do you know the guy on the side of the highway with a flat tire
> is a DEC Field Service Engineer?
>
> A. He's swapping out all the tires to see which one is flat.
>
> (or from net.jokes in 1981...
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/net.jokes/GQ2B6HZIY_4 )
>
> The way I heard it was:
> How do you tell if a man with a flat tire is a DEC Field Service Rep?
> Look in the trunk; if he's from DEC F.S. he'll have three spares with
little
> red tags on them and no jack.

My favourite at the time was:

Q: How does DEC Field Circus deal with a flat tyre?
A: Swap the wheels one by one until the issue is resolved.

Q: How does DEC Field Circus deal with a flat battery?
A: Swap the wheels one by one until the issue is resolved.

:)