Replacing failed powersupplies on qbus PDP-11s

[Fred Cisin]

On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, William Donzelli wrote:

> > 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.

Until the boss sees that you screwed around in the lab for fifteen minutes
without a demonstrable product, when you could have been spending an hour
or two at your workstation in your cubicle, just to get the same
results.
?