Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1591

On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:14:21 -0500 in alt.folklore.computers, keith

I'm a software type (love programming) and this has happened to me with hardware. Bought a Xerox laser printer with a remote SNA comm board allowing it to be connected to an IBM 37x5 FEP running NCP. RTFM, set the i-f card jumpers, setup the printer, FEP, host VTAM, and OS printer configs, power everything off, wire it all together, power it all on, everything comes up, but comms doesn't seem right and printing just won't work. Put in a call to our Xerox SE about the printer remote SNA comm board and get a call back from a guy at Xerox engineering, whose first question is "How the hell did you get a hold of that board?" Apparently neither the board nor docs had been approved for release even to domestic customers yet, and here we were in another country with one, asking for support. After giving him our customer, invoice, parts, and local Xerox contact info, he rung off, and must have made a few more irate phone calls, because we later got a call back from someone who helped us reconcile the actual board configuration and functions with the docs to get the printer up and running. Don't remember if we ever got an offer to swap out the board for an official rev, although it may have been done later by an FE.

-- Thanks. Take care, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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