30 Apr
2021
30 Apr
'21
1:34 p.m.
On Thu, 29 Apr 2021, Brad Spencer wrote:
I will not speak specifically about DEC serial
terminals, but rather an
experience I had many years ago with Data General terminals at the
University I was at that may or may not be helpful.
[...]
We had a network of serial lines extending for several km over a few
suburbs; after every lightning strike I would get to replace the 1488/1489
chips which were *soldered* in.
Eventually I just bought a set of high-quality sockets, and merely swapped
the chips as each terminal came in after being zapped by Thor.
As an aside, not only did I chuck out the bad chips but I took care
to bend their pins over backwards, in case some idiot saw them...
-- Dave, who once destroyed a $US10,000 Ethernet card for the CCI Power
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