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Re: Microscope 2000 Diagnostic Toolkit Anybody got it?

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From: Moondance Foxmarnick
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 00:00
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In article <W6Td6nAFxIl4EwRk@jasper.freeserve.co.uk>, 
mike@jasper.freeserve.co.uk says...
....>
> I will admit, POST cards can be useful.  My argument was that knowing
> that, for example, the DMA controller has failed is of little use when
> the easiest and quickest route to curing that failure is motherboard
> replacement.
> 
> 
Ah, but now you're focused on the resolution. Engineers want to know the 
why. They won't rest until they know. They'll spend/waste 4 days pulling 
apart some useless aparatus just so they can come to you in glee to 
report that it was _this_ do-hickee that failed, not that dongle! <grin>
I know, I'm my fathers daughter. <smile> And fates help me, I'm the same 
way...
		-MF
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From: Moondance Foxmarnick <calabash@nojunkearthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Microscope 2000 Diagnostic Toolkit Anybody got it?
Date: 2000/01/31
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