Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:
> Yes, I used to sit on some of the $5000 toilet seats when I was in the
> USAF. But the $190 screwdrivers broke easier than my $1.90 Craftsman.
> (They wouldn't let Avionics techs have hammers -- might have encouraged
> us to use them to fix the _real_ source of most of the problems, the
> stick actuators [pilots]).
I know, we had "open between the headsets" as the probable cause of more Sidewinder "no
tone" writeups than we did actual missile errors. It sure was amazing though that the WSO's
actually were college graduates.
As per the Z248 topic we started on, I got three more yesterday and the seller told me that
they were all totalled and just for parts. All three (at $5 each complete with 251-1 HDD's,
2 in each) are singing along smoothly and running Win 3.11 this morning. Amazing how they
came back to live after being pronounced DOA. They all have the Zenith low VGA video card,
1.6mb RAM, 1.2mb and 1.44mb floppies, 14.4mb modems, and the Zenith VGA monitors, with the
cooling fan built in.
Since seeing this on Zenith monitors a few years back I realized the benefit of it and I
always retrofit my own with their own fans and haven't had a heat related failure yet.
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Received on Sun May 24 1998 - 10:42:37 BST