Simulation vs breadboarding (was Replacing failed powersupplies on qbus PDP-11s)

[Al Kossow]

 > 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

I doubt any company newer than 10 years old even has lab stock any more
to breadboard something with.

I'd end up going to Haltek or Halted for parts, because Apple killed off
their parts stock room when the hardware group was moving from Valley Green to
Infinite Loop. One day I went over to it and it was empty. They had dumped
the whole thing into recycling because none of the hardware engineers used
any of it anymore.