Re: Some TOPS20 memories..

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From: schw... Scott Schwartz
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1989 08:37

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In article <1302@kuling.UUCP> jonasf@kuling.UUCP (Jonas Flygare) writes:
>Our DEC2060 will be put to rest pretty soon. Sigh.. It's such a nice
>machine. This summer we had a heat problem with it, and DEC FS came to 
>take a look. The guy thought it was a fan running slow, so he decided
>to find out which one. This was accomplished by putting a screwdriver 
>into each fan, and listening... >SKREEEEEEE< >SKRREEEEEEE< >SKOOOOOOOO<
>"This one's faulty, I'll change it." :-)

Well our engineering department has a DEC-10, and its not going to be
put to rest soon.... The engineers do their own maintainance on it,
though.  The reason is that a few years back someone looked inside the
(running) machine and saw that one of the power supplies had a hole in
it, and a note from the DEC repairman taped to it saying "parts on
order", and dated something like 1983.

-- 
Scott Schwartz
vacation?  we don' need no steenking vacation!

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