Re: Microscope 2000 Diagnostic Toolkit Anybody got it?

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From: Tom MacIntyre
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 00:00

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On Mon, 31 Jan 2000 09:34:16 GMT, Moondance Foxmarnick
<calabash@nojunkearthlink.net> wrote:

>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

One of the greatest sadnesses that I can suffer in electronics repair
is to repair something and not know just exactly how and why...it
happens, too.

Tom

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From: tmacinty@ns.sympatico.ca (Tom MacIntyre)
Subject: Re: Microscope 2000 Diagnostic Toolkit Anybody got it?
Date: 2000/01/31
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