Remember the Mot Exerciser dev box?

We bought one of those that had an inherent bunch of bugs.

In those days, a Mot tech would show up dressed in a Mot service uniform. 
Blue shirt, dark blue pants.

They looked like Maytag repairmen....

But the difference between them and HP.....

They never did fix the box........:-)

Mark


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John J. McDonough" <mcd@is-sixsigma.com>
To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 12:17 PM
Subject: Re: [OT] The HP I miss...


> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mark E. Skeels" <meskeels@earthlink.net>
> Subject: [OT] The HP I miss...
>
>
>> I got to sit with the tech as he went through the scope; it was really
> cool.
>
> Years and years ago, I had an HP computer.  This thing was a beast full of
> huge circuit boards, perhaps 10x12" or so, each one just chock full of
> goodies.
>
> One time our building was struck by lightning an the plotter quit working.
> I don't recall exactly how, but I isolated the problem to the plotter
> interface card.
>
> Well, the HP tech shows up, spreads this huge schematic out that covered 
> the
> whole table, spent just a few minutes on it and says "it has to be that
> transistor right there".  Pops out the board, solders in a new transistor,
> and we were on our way.  I was impressed!
>
> Can you imagine any tech doing component level repair of anything on the
> customer site these days?   Most of the time you are lucky if they can
> recognize the device, let alone the boards in it.
>
> --McD
>
>
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