They gave you a very good question.
A few years ago I repaired a Kodak laboratory equiped with 4 or 5
pieces of 68000 processors which communicate between over a time
multiplexed serial bus.
I haven't complete documentation and the guy who service the tool
asked to the owner an equivalent of $3000 for exchanging the damaged
board.
I've sit (really sit on the floor) two fully days with an
oscilloscope, a sheet of paper and a pencil. After two days the
problem was solved with only $800.
I admit my nose help me always with those problems.

So the question was good and the answer could be:
1. drop it to the garbage, it's time for new devices here
2. pay me enough to reverse engineer the board and find the schematic,
then I'll be able to solve your problems.

greetings,
Vasile

On 1/14/07, Dennis Crawley <dennis.crawley@usa.net> wrote:
> Hi all.
> I'll have the last job interview this week, this time with an engineer.
> They make and sale instruments which determine components at molecular and
> atomic level.
> They want me at two areas, networking administration and technical
> services.(U$S 1000, 8hrs, Argentina)
> In that last interview they will give me a PCB board (15"x7")  with this
> question:
> "What would you do, if the problem is here".
> I have a glance of one  of many boards last week, (very short glance), and I
> saw a
> 68000 microprocessor, a lot of buffers like 74C244/5, 4 very populated
> connectors, and 4 or 5 PALs.
> I want to know if this is a normal interview, just because I have a nephew
> who is magician.... Perhaps he can do the job better than I can.
>
> No diagrams?
>
> I would appreciate any comment.
>
> Dennis Crawley
>
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