On the 26/02/96, Brenton waffled to Dieter..

 Hello Brenton,

 BV> Perhaps you need a Sportshoe too :)

 DM> Good try :-)

 BV> I wasn't trying to sell you one, just offering some advice.
 
 Yeah, yeah. Sure :-)

 DM> I'll buy one from the commission I may make when you buy a swag of
 DM> LAN print servers :-)

 BV> HA! You jest.

 Nope :-)

 Single parallel port Axis server that will support Netware, Lan
 Manager, TCP/IP, NetBeui and AppleTalk for a measly ~$0.5k. By
 the time you've pissed around with the Lexmark server, you will
 have almost spent that much in time and $$. Triple printer port
 for double that.

 Not that I'm trying to sell you anything...... :-)

 BV> BTW, do you have any idea where I might find a surface
 BV> mount 7407 ? I've got a dead Lexmark network print server which is
 BV> about 18 months old and the fuckers reckon they can't fix it. It
 BV> basically consists of the SCM, 1 x 7407, 1 x 74F244, 1 x 74F245

 Why do I have the eeriest feeling about this.....

 I went down this path about 12 months ago for some japper
 printer's parallel port. In the end, I tacked a std 7407 upside
 down and ran several lengths of wire-wrap to the relevant
 connections.

 BV> The symptoms are that it thinks the printer is always in an error
 BV> condition. Everything is surface mount and I can source the 244 and
 BV> 245 from Farnell but no-one on earth has a surface mount 7407 so
 BV> guess where the fault is going to be...

 Guess what, it won't be the 7407.. it'll be the SCM :-)

 BV> BTW, did I tell Bob to only
 BV> buy an IBM notebook so that he can get parts in the future ? I must
 BV> have been on drugs at the time.

 You gotta lay off that coffee.

 BV> The fucking dead cunts. At least I
 BV> got the satisfaction of abusing the living shit out of their service
 BV> manager.

 For an 18 month old product ? Screw 'em down hard enough and
 they should offer a replacement product.

 Dieter
 

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