On 2018-05-01, Axel Berger  wrote:

> ray carter wrote:
>
>> One of my memories was that the 11/70 had
>> to be taken down and all the cards reseated weekly to keep it running
>> reliably.
>
> A large number of short bits of copper wire plus a soldering iron will
> save that. Granted, it makes swapping cards a lot more difficult, but
> how often do you ever do that in running machine really?

Not often.  Hot-swappable cards came later.  :-)

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