Dario, Vasile and Mark Thanks for the input. (I forgot the [OT] label!)
..by friday i'll tell you how this ends.

Vasile Surducan wrote:
> 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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