[Info-vax] Alpha XP1000 card guides needed

[Alan Frisbie]

On 06/25/2015 02:44 AM, terry+googleblog at tmk.com wrote:
> On Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at 8:41:48 PM UTC-4, Alan Frisbie wrote:
>> My XP1000 CPU board recently died, and when I went to replace
>> it, the plastic card guides simply crumbled, presumably from
>> age and heat.
>
> I feel compelled to make the mandatory "Next higher assembly" joke.
 > Do you still have a few thousand of those BA box parts?

Yes, I still have a whole bag of them.   For those not in on the joke,
they are the clips that hold on the side panels of a BA123 box.  They
were not listed as an available part by DEC, so a friendly manager
went to the factory floor and sent me a large bag of them.

Now, of course, other parts are failing.   The rubber tires on the
casters have disintegrated, and they are making horrible black marks
on the floor.   This was another part that became a symbol of "unlisted"
spare parts, and I was given much grief at DECUS over it.

Alan Frisbie