Dell complaints

Rocke_T_Sinetist · Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 3:54 pm Post subject:

PDP-11s? Dude, I WORKED on PDP-8s. And my highschool ran on punchcards... it was ahead of its time even doing that.

I worked on TUBES, and not just guitar amps. Know the difference between a 50B5 and a 50C5? Hint: it's not much, but they are not interchangeable.

If you can say the US equivalent to ECC83, or the European equivalent to 6BQ5, without looking it up, you are an electro-pliestocene god in my estimation.
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biff's buddy · Hates with a Vengance Joined: 02 Mar 2008 Posts: 63

I looked it up in DSN ... it never existed!

Rocke_T_Sinetist · Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 10:15 pm Post subject:

Hawhawhaw! In DSN, the GX270 capacitor issue and the D4700 backwards fan issue never existed either. For that matter, in DSN, Michael Dell never existed.
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FallenAngel · Super Hater Joined: 21 Feb 2006 Posts: 1493

Any issue that would cost Dell money never made it to DSN. I'm sure the battery recall was nothing more than a desk drop Razz

Rocke_T_Sinetist · Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 11:04 pm Post subject:

There are Dell hardware issues referenced by number on Dell's own forum, entered by Dell's own forum liasons, which Dell phone answerers do not acknowledge by number or by symptom.

Is anyone surprised? You ottent be.
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FallenAngel · Super Hater Joined: 21 Feb 2006 Posts: 1493

Dell phone jockeys barely acknowledge their own LOB or name, so why not disregard a DSN article too?

Now that it'll be almost completely outsourced, expect that to get worse.

Rocke_T_Sinetist · Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 11:07 pm Post subject:

Hell, they even lie about their NAMES.
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FallenAngel · Super Hater Joined: 21 Feb 2006 Posts: 1493

That's because they have to "Christian" them up right quick for the sake of their North American callers who don't want to wait 10 minutes for them to pronounce their full REAL names.

That always makes me think of the movie Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee - the scene where the "savages" were handed a big book of Christian Names to choose from.

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Rocke_T_Sinetist · Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 11:38 am Post subject:

Just run checkbead/R.

Yeh, I've seen one working drum memory. It was at the State Fair. I forgot whose name was on it, IBM or Remington Rand. Also seen ferrite-core memory. Also, a working mechanical analog computer, once in a documentary and once (of all places) in a cornball no-budget sci fi movie, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers. In the movie, the output wasn't a teletype, it was handwriting!

Am I a technology dinosaur or what?
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thanks_for_all_the_fish · Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 2:59 pm Post subject:

Rocke_T_Sinetist · Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 3:13 pm Post subject:

Good on ya, Fish! Very Happy

Wanna go another round? ECC82.

I think there are close similarities--if not identicalities--between say EL84/KT66; EL34/KT88. If I'm not mistaken, EL34 was also known as--or equivalent to--7591. Don't know what its 6xx5 number was, 6L6 comes to mind, though I'm not sure how it graduated from a 5. Wink

Maybe a separate suppressor (beam) pin, instead of the internal connection (?).

Here's another one: What is the small-socket equivalent of 6H6? (Hint, the '6' is misleading.) (Challenge, it's not cross-referenced on Google.)
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