> >Dontcha just hate it when this happens? Here I am happily working away on
> >an 8/E chassis with boards scavenged far and wide to get it up and running.
> >In the course of which I'm using boards out of my 8/M that works find to
> >replace questionable boards to reduce the number of variables in the
> >equation. So the 8/E (with an 8/F front panel) is all up and running with
> >my hodge podge of boards and I reassemble the 8/M, turn it on and the 'RUN'
> >LED is stuck on. No response from the front panel halt switch state.
>
> Hey, DEC field service lives on. ;)
>
> Sorry to our former or current DECy Techies, but I am reminded of the old joke:
>
> How long does it take a DEC field service person to change a flat tire?
>
> Depends on how many flat tires they brought with them.
What do they do when they run out of tires.
They change the alternator because it must be a power supply problem.
Bill Pechter
EX-DEC Field Service...
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Three things never anger: First, the one who runs your DEC,
The one who does Field Service and the one who signs your check.
Received on Tue Apr 13 1999 - 06:39:39 BST