On Mon, 27 May 2002, Gunther Schadow wrote:
> everything seems dependent on everything else here. How can this be
> decoupled so that I can test one thing at a time? The next I'll try
> is actually replace the VAXBI backplane cage. But what would DEC
> field service have done? Is there a technician's handbook that
> would give some ideas?

I think that at least the way the jokes go, the field circus^Wservice 
would have brought a bigger load of XBIA/XBIB's in than you had 
accumulated and tried all permutations :-)
just kidding, but thats how the jokes about them used to go
'how can you tell a field service technicnan with a flat tire?' 
'hes the one on the side of the road swapping out tires to find the bad one'
hehe
isildur