DEC troubleshooting

From: William Donzelli <william_at_ans.net>
Date: Thu Nov 5 15:48:41 1998

> Sure. Tell the customer he/she will be down an extra hour while
> you extend the board to find the fault, desolder the chip
> and replace the 10 cent bus driver. Nope. Swapping was reality in the field
> when I was there.

I must agree here. Doing component level debugging just makes no sense in
the field.

> Board level (early 80's DEC) was (unfortunately)
> replaced with shotgunning and option swap out by many in the late 80's.

Did the boards not go back to DEC for rework?

William Donzelli
william_at_ans.net
Received on Thu Nov 05 1998 - 15:48:41 GMT