Re: IBM Engineer...
About 50 years ago our college time sharing system failed. It couldn't even load diagnostic tapes. Eventually it was traced to a cable from memory to CPU. So this cable was replaced and worked perfectly - but three other bits did not. Our field engineer had three spare cables at this point which he gingerly connected without cable ties etc. and got the system up. He then put in a call to have ALL cables of this manufacture replaced. A team came the next weekend and replaced hundreds of cables. Did not have a problem thereafter.
Don't tell me that cables can't go bad.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
