But you are a special person, Vasile.  You are brilliant. You have a lot of 
knowledge and experience.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dennis Crawley" <dennis.crawley@usa.net>
To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 5:14 PM
Subject: [OT] Re: uncommon interview?


> 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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