Here's one for the DEC engineers

From: Bill Pechter <pechter_at_pechter.dyndns.org>
Date: Thu Nov 9 07:23:17 2000

> From: Jerome Fine <jhfine_at_idirect.com>
>
>
> >I was told that while working on an 11/34A, one fellow from DEC
> >Field Circus blew all the boards in the backplane when he removed
> >the memory - seems that he forgot to turn off the power!!
>
>
> My favorite is a Field Circus CE arrives at site and while walking
> through the room he picks a likely cab to lay his stuff on. Then
> proceeds to ask where is this HSC thingie. Rumor has it the
> manager of the site was seen escorting the CE out the door
> with great vigor.
>
> Allison

Well, I was NEVER that bad... but I had fun trying to find the 11/23
doing HASP spooling at ADR in the mid '80's... It was in a VT103 on top
of the VAX 11/780 I installed..

Bill

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