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Anyone who calls themselves a hacker needs to read this to calibrate their definition. This guy - he's a hacker.
by nasalgoat 12y ago
Anyone who calls themselves a hacker needs to read this to calibrate their definition.
This guy - he's a hacker.
- ChuckMcM 12y agoTechnically he's a DEC field engineer :-) But this is one of the reasons I really enjoy the older DEC gear, there is so much documentation on how it works (or is supposed to) that you can debug it to the chip level.
- al2o3cr 12y agoDEC field engineer? That's handy, my waffle maker is broken. ;)
- angersock 12y agoBe careful stripping the wires...
- teh_klev 12y agoSpeaking as a former Data General field engineer these old machines (DEC/DG, hell even old IBM mini's like the S/36) were a joy to work on; and you're right, with a copy of the right diagnostics, the relevant micro-fiche pages and a scope you could fix pretty much anything on-site if you had to. The documentation for these old machines was truly amazing.