This is kinda fun (HT, Maitri)
Rules:
- Grab the nearest book.
- Open the book to page 123.
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
- Don’t you dare dig for that “cool” or “intellectual” book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
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“Target numbers start at 0 and go up to 7 or 15, depending on whether the bus is narrow or wide. The SCSI controller itself counts as a device and is usually target 7 (even on a wide bus, for backward compatability). All other devices must have their target numbers set to unique values. It is a common error to forget that the SCSI controller has a target number and to set a device to the same target number as the controller. ”
– Unix System Administration Handbook, 3rd Edition. Evi Nemeth, garth Snyder, Scott Seebass, Trent R. Hein. Prentice Hall PTR, 2001
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The use of higher voltages results in some good valves being classed as filament-to-grid short circuits.
With a.c. supply, it is usual to design the circuit so that resistances over 0.5 megohm do not indicate as shorts; this is to avoid capacitance effects. With d.c. supplies there is no similar limitation, but different models vary considerably in their shorts testing sensitivity.
The most satisfactory switching arrangement is one which tests for shorts from any pin to all other pins tied together. The circuit of Fig 3.4 may be used, except that the cathode need not be heated.
(RCA Radiotron Designer’s Handbook, 4th Ed. (c)1952)