On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 12:47:06AM +0100, Antonio Carlini wrote:
> > On which planet have you been living for the last 20 years????
> >
> > I've never met a field servoid who had any sort of clue
> > whatsoever about the operation and troubelshooting of
> > computers -- they just replace seemingly random parts
> > until the fault goes away.
>
> The DEC FS people who used to service the VAX-11/750
> (this is late 80s, early 90s) and the associated
> RA60 were actually pretty good.
That was my experience as well... the guys we had working on our 11/750
were pretty good (c. 1984-1988). I wasn't quite as impressed with the
MicroVAX guys, though... they were a bunch of board swappers.
-ethan
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