IBM Engineers

From: Andy Holt <andyh_at_andyh-rayleigh.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Thu Apr 8 15:20:45 2004

> I take it this can be sung to the tune of " Early one morning ,
> just as the
> sun was rising......." ?

Try the Flanders and Swann song that starts

Twas on the Monday morning
The gas man came to call
...

chorus: It all makes work for the working man to do.

Andy


> 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 - 15:20:45 BST