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In article <2...@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> jo...@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879) writes:
>Another story of the PDP-11/20 at the University of Illinois in 1973:
>
>Sometimes the machine would stop working unexpectedly.  When this happened,
>one of the common fixes was to give the CPU a swift kick from below before
>trying to reboot.

When I was a student technician at the university hardware repair center 
("Terminal Repair" I always found the name amusing. ;-)) we used to repair
a terminals (vt52's I think)  in a similar way.  The logic board was
mounted upside-down on the bottom of the computer.  Some of the logic
was socketted.  Occasionally, the chips would start to unseat and the
terminal would be flakey.  When the terminal would come in for repair,
we would take the terminal out of site of the customer, take a wooden
stick (label "for terminals only") and bang the bottom of the terminal
hard enough to re-seat the chips, and then bring the terminal back to
the front counter to check it out.  The expression on the customer's face
was frequently one of utter amazement.  

Note:  The terminals that we did this on always belonged to our computation
center (though they may be in individual offices) and we never did this
to someone who actually *owned* the terminal (at least, we tried not to...)


			steve