Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!wjh12!talcott!harvard!seismo!hao!cires!nbires!opus!rcd From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) Newsgroups: net.periphs Subject: Re: terminal noise Message-ID: <995@opus.UUCP> Date: Wed, 19-Dec-84 03:46:17 EST Article-I.D.: opus.995 Posted: Wed Dec 19 03:46:17 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 21-Dec-84 01:38:13 EST References: <270@zinfandel.UUCP> Organization: NBI,Inc, Boulder CO Lines: 17 > >... the solution > >is probably the oldest way of repairing delicate instruments: > > > > HIT IT! HARD!! > > I did this to my poor Concept 108 once, and was rewarded with a bright > flash and a "puff of greasy black smoke". Shards of plastic soot drifted > around the office the rest of the day. The lesson to this actually is, "Know your equipment." I've heard the "Hit it!" philosophy referred to, in a different domain, as the "RCA treatment." This is only partly a comment on whatever need RCA equipment might have had for, ummm, encouragement...it also reflects on the ability of said equipment to withstand the corrective maintenance procedure. -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile.