Hello from Gregg C Levine
S-100 bus crates? Robert can you elaborate? And as for the problems
with drives, and such like, and memory chips. Yep, all of those will
work Which I find amusing. Very amusing, in fact.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: port-vax-owner@netbsd.org [mailto:port-vax-owner@netbsd.org]
On Behalf
> Of Robertdkeys@aol.com
> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 5:04 PM
> To: mrfusion@uranium.vaxpower.org
> Cc: port-vax@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: 3100 M76 ram problems... how to test?
>=20
> It might be folklore, but back when I ran S-100 bus crates in the
lab,
> it was regular practice to unseat/reseat boards periodically to keep
> things working.  I have done that on other machines, too.  I only
have
> dropped a machine a time or two, as a last resort  (peecee crates).
> Sometimes the jar worked...... sometimes it didn't...... (:+}}.....
>=20
> I had a good friend that had a big Navy radio transmitter that did
> some periodic shennanigans.... he kept a big rubber mallet aside
> the critter, and if it acted up,   WHAP!  upside its head, and that
> would jar a sticky relay into action.  I have often wondered if that
> would work on computers.... (They did sell a big foam baseball
> bat, called a Byte Bat, for whapping computers upside the head.
> Haven't seen those since the early 80's, tho.....).
>=20
> Tales to tell.....
>=20
> Bob