todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day) (08/16/90)
Take a look at the rear of your keyboard, right next to where the curly cable snaps in. If you have a date code between 8524 and 8538, then... I may have worked on it! Yes, that's right! Before my junior year in college, I got a temporary job making and testing keyboards for Convergent Technologies. The pay was great, especially since we had to work a lot of overtime. A real nice summer job. The actual keyboard without the case would come in from an overseas vendor. What we would do is put the keyboards in the plastic case, check to make sure all the keycaps looked okay, and then use the diagnostic diskette routine to check to make sure that all the keys actually worked. We'd then stamp the date code on the left and a QC stamp on the right. Some of the keyboards would be checked by a second QC person. In that case, you'll have two QC stamps. In another building, there were people from AT&T checking out entire systems. If they found a keyboard that went through both QC people and was still bad, we'd have to open up all the rest of the systems in that area and check all of those keyboards again. What a pain! This actually happened quite a bit because of cracked keyboards. Evidently, the freon we were using to clean the keyboard was making it brittle. We eventually went to another cleaner. The last half of the summer, I went over to work on the 510 line. I got to put the 'jelly bags' on top of the touch screen. I had to check them to make sure they didn't have any air bubbles or thickness anomolies in them. One time, we got a massive shipment of overly thick bags from Dow Chemical. The problem was so bad that a couple managers and I flew back to the middle of Michigan (Dow World HQ) to discuss the problem. Those sure were cute machines. Too bad I couldn't have gotten a hold of one. Sure would have been a lot nicer than using the Phone Mangager! -- Todd Day | todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us | ucsbcsl!ivucsb!todd "I believed what I was told, I thought it was a good life, I thought I was happy. Then I found something that changed it all..." --- Anonymous, 2112
john@n7kbt.WA.COM (John Opalko) (08/19/90)
In article <1990Aug16.134851.4747@ivucsb.sba.ca.us>, todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day) writes: > If you have a date code between 8524 and > 8538, then... > I may have worked on it! Nope. 8549 here. > ... We'd then stamp the date code on the left and > a QC stamp on the right. Some of the keyboards would be checked > by a second QC person. In that case, you'll have two QC stamps. I don't have *any* QC stamps. Does this mean my keyboard has no quality? :-) John Opalko john@n7kbt.WA.COM