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From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Fri Nov 13 23:14:51 1998

< of humorous stories of misadventures involving classic equipment..
< At DEC, we had loads of them.. Hey Allison, I bet you've got a few!

I didn't live in the field so they are few. The best ones I can't repeat
as they can from product safety. Suffice to say that the words it can
hurt you are about as meaningfull to a three year old as some field
engineers. Though the woman that wanted a lead vest to work on a laser
printer due to "radiation" was always a good laugh.

My favorite, was CSSE support room with mostly dead out of rev systems.
Of course we had the best (cheap management) so our 11/70 had three
RM03s two in use... the third for backup. Why? It had a bad spindle
bearing as was too loud to use continuosly!

I supported the roll out of the LPS40 40ppm network laser printer.
We had a site in utah that had a printing defect and I was sent
to see what the story was. Never got to see it... the night I arrive
the building had a water main burst on the top floor causing a collapse
to the floor below it crushing the printer. The MicroVAXII in the bottom
was unscathed!

I remember warstories and a few other sites... ;)

Allison
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