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Michael A. Terrell Michael A. Terrell is offline
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Tom Del Rosso wrote:

John Ferrell wrote:
I spent a lot of time there as a Field Engineer.

It was FET storage and terribly unreliable. It was endowed with
on-the-fly error recovery or it would have never worked at all. You
could count on rebooting the system at least once a shift.


It ran Windows 95?

What if we had unreliable software and hardware at the same time?



Have you forgot about the fake low ESR capacitor problem?