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A floppy filled with software worth thousands of francs: Techie can't take it, customs won't keep it. What to do?

Norman Nescio Silver badge

Re: Lost at Sea

Hmm, you might be the DEC FS tech that told me that story a long time ago. We had 'quite a few' RA81s. I had a very nice visit to Kaufbeuren, including the high-speed drive on the autobahn from Munich, and lunch at the plant, which included beer (!), the explanation being that the German workforce would refuse to work if they could not have beer with their lunches.

Our on-site engineer was invaluable. He mentioned his 'baptism of fire', when he had been newly trained on a particular piece of DEC kit (could have been the HSC50), where the training video made it look easy: open up the cabinet, identify the failed card by the indicator LED, replace card, and away you go. In his case, he gets called out, confidently opens the cabinet to find....no indicator LED on any of the cards. A 'while' later, after most of a new HSC50 is sent from Reading, he finally got things working again, and became less trustful of the training videos.

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