[rescue] EIO card in HP 4M

[Dave McGuire]

On April 12, 2021 3:08:18 PM Mouse <mouse at Rodents-Montreal.ORG> wrote:
>>>> [...LJ4+...SS20...$200...]
>>> That's not a fair comparison at all.  You can still get real,
>>> modern, not-a-tech-geek-in-the-basement work done on an LJ4.
>
> I get real work done on my SS20s, too.  They are my main human
> interface machines, with assorted other tasks (the one I'm using right
> now, for example, has a 16-port serial interface in it, which I use to
> talk to various serial ports at various times; it also holds the
> webcomics I follow, my collection of RFCs and images, it's the main
> machine I work on my own software on, it's where I run my IRC clients
> and most of my ssh client instances, and assorted other things I'm not
> thinking of at the moment).
>
> It's important to my paying work mostly for the human interface, the
> ssh clients, the serial ports, the RFCs...oh, yes, it's also where I
> keep most of my miscellaneous documentation on this-and-that, which not
> infrequently gets called on when I'm doing paying work.  Most of the
> paying work gets done on employer-owned hardware which I ssh to.
>
> Is this tech-geek-in-the-basement?  Not literally; I'm well above
> ground in a highrise (depending on exactly how you count, the floor
> count varies from as low as 10 to as high as 20).  But I'm a computer
> geek by both vocation and avocation, so, depending on what you mean by
> it, maybe.

  Well yes, but you have to admit, you're an outlier here. ;) I couldn't do my
job with an SS20, as much as I might enjoy doing so.

                  -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA