Shoddy Hardware (Was: Re: WW fixtures (was Re: "New" PDP-8))

From: Douglas H. Quebbeman <dquebbeman_at_acm.org>
Date: Tue Apr 2 06:49:05 2002

> On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, John Chris Wren wrote:
>
> > I do have one theory that applies to PCs and cars: If you fail to shed
> > blood and appease the gods, it will not work when you're done.
>
> Absolutely. Although Sridhar and I have discussed the possibility of
> offering up chicken blood instead....

Chris Smith and I were discussing repair techniques offline, and the
above were amongst the discussed techniques.

However, I prefer erecting totems next to the troublesome devices...

;)


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