IBM Engineers, subject turned into field service practices

From: Miroslav Pokorni <mpokorni2000_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu Apr 8 15:48:28 2004

Isn't that where term 'board swappers' comes from?

When I was looking for a job in Vancouver, B.C., back in 1976, I was told
that Digital's (DEC) recently enacted policy was not to train service
personel, they just sent them to customer site and serviceman was on his
own. Rational was that few months after they finish training, CDC would hire
them out.

A year after that, I have seen one of those Digital servicemen trying to fix
a PDP11 and that cofirmed the rumour.
Received on Thu Apr 08 2004 - 15:48:28 BST