Dave McGuire said:

>  My pdp8/e is old and fragile.  There's nothing fragile about an
>SS10.  I beat the crap out of lots of them daily and they never so
>much as burp.

I ran into a bunch of these in the last couple of years that had spent time in
computer centers that maintained about 90 degrees Fahrenheit. The onboard
ethernet doesn't seem to like this. :-) The fix was installing hme cards
and getting 100baseT in the bargain.

Other than that, they are pretty rugged.
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