Re: Oh dear, we've all been made redundant...

[Larry Sheldon <larrysheldon () cox net>]

On 3/24/2016 08:08, Casey Russell wrote:
>  >>Just goes to show the vast range of technical issues that can be
>  >>readily righted with little more than a good thump with a hammer.
>
> We always referred to that as "percussive maintenance"
>
> Casey Russell
> Network Engineer
> Kansas Research and Education Network
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> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 3:19 AM, Wayne Bouchard <web () typo org
> <mailto:web () typo org>> wrote:
>
>     On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 11:00:36PM -0500, Larry Sheldon wrote:
>     > On 3/19/2016 18:16, Warren Kumari wrote:
>     > > Found on Staple's website:
>     > >http://www.staples.com/NetReset-Automated-Power-Cycler-for-Modems-and-Routers/product_1985686
>     > >
>     > > Fixes all issues, less downtime, less stress...
>     >
>     > etc...
>     > .......
>     > ........
>     > ...and so forth
>     > ................
>     > .................
>     > ..................and so on.
>     >
>     > > Resetting allows equipment to auto-correct issues
>     >
>     > Recalls to mind years ago in the Toll testroom where I worked, the
>     > evenings equipment man (charged with and assigned to the task of
>     > repairing equipment that had been "patched out" by the day shift) would,
>     > when he arrived for work each day, retrieve the piece of 2 X 4 from its
>     > hiding place and whack each bay of relay-rich equipment as he walked in
>     > the area.
>     >
>     > Then, after some coffee and a cigarette, he would go through the
>     > trouble-ticket collection, retest the item, mark the ticket "NTF" and
>     > proceed to the next item.
>
>     I love that!
>
>     Just goes to show the vast range of technical issues that can be
>     readily righted with little more than a good thump with a hammer.

In a later live, I worked in a computer center housing A computer (1110, 
1100/80, 1100/90).  The UNIVAC CEs had in their kit an tool for locating 
"shock-sensitive" boards--looked like and worked like an "automatic 
centerpunch" with a blunt point.

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