On 3/24/2016 08:08, Casey Russell wrote:
>>Just goes to show the vast range of technical issues that can be
>>readily righted with little more than a good thump with a hammer.
We always referred to that as "percussive maintenance"
Casey Russell
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On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 3:19 AM, Wayne Bouchard <w...@typo.org
<mailto:w...@typo.org>> wrote:
On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 11:00:36PM -0500, Larry Sheldon wrote:
> On 3/19/2016 18:16, Warren Kumari wrote:
> > Found on Staple's website:
>
>http://www.staples.com/NetReset-Automated-Power-Cycler-for-Modems-and-Routers/product_1985686
> >
> > Fixes all issues, less downtime, less stress...
>
> etc...
> .......
> ........
> ...and so forth
> ................
> .................
> ..................and so on.
>
> > Resetting allows equipment to auto-correct issues
>
> Recalls to mind years ago in the Toll testroom where I worked, the
> evenings equipment man (charged with and assigned to the task of
> repairing equipment that had been "patched out" by the day shift) would,
> when he arrived for work each day, retrieve the piece of 2 X 4 from its
> hiding place and whack each bay of relay-rich equipment as he walked in
> the area.
>
> Then, after some coffee and a cigarette, he would go through the
> trouble-ticket collection, retest the item, mark the ticket "NTF" and
> proceed to the next item.
I love that!
Just goes to show the vast range of technical issues that can be
readily righted with little more than a good thump with a hammer.
In a later live, I worked in a computer center housing A computer (1110,
1100/80, 1100/90). The UNIVAC CEs had in their kit an tool for locating
"shock-sensitive" boards--looked like and worked like an "automatic
centerpunch" with a blunt point.
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