heh, this reminds me of a (possibly folkloric) story i heard years ago 
about an FSE coming out on a call for a DECstation. after puzzling over
the machine for a while, he picks it up a couple feet, and drops it flat back
down. The machine works. On the write-up of the work order, the service
is described as 'simultaneous re-seating of socketed chips' or something to
that effect.. i heard the story as if it happened at the uni i went to,
but itmight be just folklore.. 

isildur

On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 Robertdkeys@aol.com wrote:

> I reseated again all the ram simms, and now the silly thing is working.
> Probably have a bad socket connection on the motherboard or a flaky
> pin on the socket.  Keeping fingers well crossed.....and rubbing rabbites
> foote....(:+}}.....
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> (Anyone have a good listing of the prom commands for an M38, M76 and
>  4000/60 machines?  Somewhere that info needs to be put for good reference
>  so it is not lost in the dustbytes of time.....)
>