> Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 20:27:19 -0500 > From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Percussive Maintenance > A few minutes ago he told us about "percussive maintenance", which > he defined as "the art of whacking the heck out of an electronic > device to insure that it continues to operate properly." > I know a lot of us are quite adept at this art, but up until just > now we didn't know there was a name for it. Sorry, but "percussive maintenance" (also known as "simulated g-forces" around high performance aircraft) replaced the older "brogan (combat boot) maintenance" during the late 1960s in the US military. Today, of course, due to the influence of so-called computer science majors, "object-oriented maintenance" has become the latest buzzword. It's the same old stuff we knew as "E-triple-M maintenace" (Eeny-meeny-miney-moe until you guess the right one), but all of these are much more effective than "Stealth Maintenance" - the invisible type which never looks as though anything were done. - John T., former MSgt, USAF, and Aircraft Maintenance Superintendent __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
