I take it this can be sung to the tune of " Early one morning , just as the
sun was rising......." ?
You didn't mention , but it seems to fit - just .
Geoff.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Duell" <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 11:29 PM
Subject: Re: IBM Engineers
> This is dedicated to all those who called out DEC field service for a
simple
> problem, and wished you hadn't..........
>
> It was on a Monday morning
> The DEC man came to call,
> My system wouldn't boot
> There was no prompt at all
> He pulled out all my SPC's
> To try a new backplane
> And I had to get the hardware guys
> to put them back again
> Oh it all makes work for field service men to do!
>
> It was on a Tuesday morning
> The hardware man came round
> He soldered and he fiddled
> And he said 'Look what I've found'
> 'Your ECOs are years behind'
> 'But I'll put it all to rights'
> Then he shorted out the power supply
> and out went all the lights
> Oh it all makes work for field service men to do!
>
> It was on a Wednesday morning
> The power supply came
> 'It's newer and it's better'
> 'But it works just the same'
> He could not fit the unit
> without stripping half the rack
> then he dropped my boot HDA
> so He called Peripherals back
> Oh it all makes work for field service men to do!
>
> It was on a Thursday morning
> The HDA came along
> with a blocklist and a cable
> and a list of what goes wrong
> He put it into my drive
> It took no time at all
> But I had to get the software guys
> to come and re-install
> Oh it all makes work for field service men to do
>
> It was on a Friday morning
> That Software made a start
> With BACKUP and SYSGEN
> He configured every part
> Every track and every sector
> But I found when he was gone
> He had overwritten the boot track
> and I couldn't turn it on
>
> On saturday and Sunday They do no work at all
> So It was on a Monday morning that the DEC man came to call
>
>
>
>
> -tony
Received on Thu Apr 08 2004 - 13:56:55 BST