Comment on Powering up a module from the IBM 604: an electronic calculator from 1948Comments−WarOnPrivacy3moI 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.−Gibbon13moIf 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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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.
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.