On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 6:22 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> "UNTESTED" used to mean that it hadn't been tried out. > Now, it means that the technician was unable to repair it. And 'TESTED' does not mean 'working'. If I power up a hard drive and it sounds like a cat fed backwards through a lawnmower (aka a headcrash) then I've 'tested' it. OK, it has failed the test in terms of working, but.... 30-odd years ago there was a chap at a radio rally (much the same as a hamfest) with 2 piles of PC-type hard drives. One was 'tested and working'. The other was 'untested'. What's the betting that most, if not all, of the latter did not work? -tony