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WarOnPrivacy 45 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Powering up a module from the IBM 604: an electron...

I haven't seen a tube deployment like that before - where the tube is combined with it's supporting components into one module - and that module plugs into a tube socket.

It's clever. It should reduce time for some repairs.

Gibbon1 44 days ago [–]

If they're the same you can swap them and see if the problem changes. Otherwise swap in known good ones till to works.

Old bus based systems you did that too. I remember once sending a dozen cards to a customer who had an intermittent issue.

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