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From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Thursday, 19 November 1998 9:14
Subject: Re: Newbie's got a dead 386
>> footnote: My then boss had "borrowed" the isolation transformer it was
>> plugged in to while I was working on it, without telling me. (!)
>
>Had anyone done that to me, they would have been on the wrong end of a
>suitable LART as soon as I had picked myself up...
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)
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