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From: brian@sdcc3.UUCP (Brian Kantor)
Newsgroups: net.micro.68k
Subject: Re: inserting multibus boards without breaking your fingers
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Date: Sun, 25-Nov-84 11:56:58 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 25 11:56:58 1984
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> Every time I insert a board into the Multibus card cage in my
> Sun 120, I nearly break my fingers trying to push the board in.
> Usually I finally get it, often by pushing the back of the 120
> against a wall for leverage.  Today I had a memory board that
> was even harder than usual - my right thumb is still a bit sore
> from pushing on it, and I'm not sure it's in all the way now
> (but it seems to be running OK.)
> 
> I never had these problems with Unibus boards.  Does anybody have
> a trick or a tool that makes life easier?
> 
> 	Mark

We too have some Sun-120s:
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To get the board out, I have to lay the damn cabinet on its back and then 
put on gloves, yank the boards out and practically pick up the whole 
cabinet in the process.  Or find one of the fraternity types to hold the
workstation cabinet in place while I do the circuitectomy.
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Putting a board IN is much easier.  I just slide the board into place,
wiggle it around until I've compensated for the warp in the board, and
then stand on the workstation until the board is seated.  The trick is
that wiggle.  If you don't wiggle the board, it might just crack in half
before it goes into the motherboard slots, just out of sheer perversity.
Think of it as sun-electronic-foreplay.
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Brute force works fine every time.  I guess its better than having
intermittent contacts on the motherboard!  What a PAIN!

	Brian Kantor	UC San Diego

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