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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.periphs
Subject: Re: terminal noise
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Date: Wed, 19-Dec-84 03:46:17 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 19 03:46:17 1984
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> >... 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.