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"
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On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 3:19 AM, Wayne Bouchard <web@typo.org <mailto:web@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-Router... > > > > 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. -- sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Juvenal)