[rescue] Accidentally destroying hardware..

[Steven Hill]

> I ESD'd the processor module for a Tandem K20000.  Very distinctive spark
> and it HURT.  It ran fine until we started putting a load on the system
> and actually used that processor for something other than TACL terminal
> processes.
>
> Tandem replaced it under our service contract.
>
> Must have been a run from the factory.  Yeah.  uh-huh.  Thats my story and
> I'm sticking to it.

It might have been one of the ones I bent a pin on the backplane
whilst "testing" them in the plant in Stirling.

Or the one I crashed into whilst skate boarding on a pallet truck.

hehehehe

No dent, thankfully.

S.

-- 
Steven Hill
Systems Administrator

www.matrixnetsystems.com