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Article #625575Re: PDP 11/40 system manual
From: Lee Gleason
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2018 16:38
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2018 16:38
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"Huge" wrote in message news:ftagv1FqhqfU2@mid.individual.net... >Eventually, they sent a guru. He spent all of about 30 seconds in the >machine room; he ejected the 8" floppy disk containing the machine's >microcode, looked at the label on the disk and said "This is the wrong >microcode for this machine - this is for a FPU machine and you don't >have an FPU", got back in his taxi and left. A new floppy came, we >booted from it and all was well. You got all the way to Stage 5 of Field Service Support escalation! http://nemesis.lonestar.org/stories/stages.html At my first job, we got that far twice. -- Lee K. Gleason N5ZMR Control-G Consultants lee.g...@comcast.net
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