From: Daniel47@teranews.com   
      
   Wolfgang Schelongowski wrote:   
   > TJ  writes:   
   >   
   > [occasionally faulty connecrtions]   
   >   
   >> That problem has plagued personal computers since the beginning. ...   
   >   
   > Let me correct that:   
   >> That problem has plagued          computers since the beginning.   
   >   
   > You know what was one of the main occupations of the hardware   
   > maintenance crew of the computing center of the local university   
   > in the seventies? Banging against the gazillion of cards of the   
   > CPU/core memory of the mainframe with a rubber hammer, one after the   
   > other. When a fault occurred, they removed the card, cleaned the   
   > contacts with a rubber eraser, and reseated the card. This method   
   > appears to be GNU-copylefted :)   
   >   
      
   We called it "the technical tap", proven repair technique, used to   
   re-seat cards!!   
      
   Daniel   
      
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