And the joys of soldering up a rs232 cable including the swanky heat shrink tubing - only to find you had neglected to put the hoods on first. I recall at one

And the joys of soldering up a rs232 cable including the swanky heat shrink tubing - only to find you had neglected to put the hoods on first. I recall at one job we had very long runs of rs232 cables to some vt100's which where very sensitive to electrical charges. To the point where one of our electronics shop brought the official Vt100 manuals so they could repair any blown chips. DEC field circus loved us :-) It was the 11/03 covered I black coal dust that really upset them.