Replacing failed powersupplies on qbus PDP-11s

[William Donzelli]

> Again, that's all very well if you're doing something sufficiently
> complex and well-defined.  If you are investigating the effect of
> putting what is basically a tuned circuit across the supply to a
> non-linear load, where a) it's simple enough to build, and b) it's not
> clearly defined enough to model, then you're far better just warming up
> the soldering iron and breaking out the 'scope.

Until the boss sees that you screwed around in the lab for an hour or
two getting all the parts and building the test circuit, rather than
spend fifteen minutes at your workstation in your cube, just to get
the same results.

--
Will