Wiring Disasters
Apr 12, 2019 11:34:09 #
For those of you who have ever worked on a wiring closet or computer or pole, you know how important it is to have a neat install, so that you can do maintenance on the wires later.
An Electrical Engineering Major (below)
Apr 12, 2019 11:40:23 #
bobbyjohn wrote:
For those of you who have ever worked on a wiring closet or computer or pole, you know how important it is to have a neat install, so that you can do maintenance on the wires later.
OMG! those are hilarious.
I specially like the pool one.Apr 12, 2019 11:46:40 #
Apr 12, 2019 11:54:05 #
Apr 12, 2019 11:56:21 #
Reminds me of the bread boards we had to wire back in the 60's massive computers. Been programming 53 years.
Apr 12, 2019 13:16:49 #
I had a summer job one year in the cyclotron at a university. It was of course a complex piece of electronics at a time when solid state was just coming into play. It was the practice of graduate students at that time to have "their own wire" (maybe more than one). They would attach a wire to some point, run it through all the wire ducts or trays and maybe around the building once or twice, then connect back to the point it started. They would label the wire with some arcane code so it looked like it belonged there.
I wouldn't be surprised if some of the professors did the same thing.
I wouldn't be surprised if some of the professors did the same thing.
Apr 12, 2019 13:19:04 #
woodworkerman wrote:
Reminds me of the bread boards we had to wire back in the 60's massive computers. Been programming 53 years.
Young whippersnapper! I started about 1959.
Apr 12, 2019 14:03:37 #
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Apr 13, 2019 05:40:10 #
They all start out nice and neat but it was always my experience that old equipment wasn't recovered and new stuff overlaid. When I started with the telco the MDF was an example of neatness. When I left there were so many cables hanging on the rack that it was impossible to recover redundant wiring.
Apr 13, 2019 06:47:13 #
EAM equipment IBM-600 series IBM-Collator, I remember them well.
woodworkerman wrote:
Reminds me of the bread boards we had to wire back in the 60's massive computers. Been programming 53 years.
Apr 13, 2019 07:43:18 #
Apr 13, 2019 07:51:26 #
Many of the old telco panels were like this. I remember they did a clean up job in one frame and recovered a massive amount of copper that had been cut off and left then covered.
Apr 13, 2019 08:52:02 #
The first one looks like the Mainframe at the Downtown CO in Washing ton DC, except just a small part of it........
Some of them bring back somewhat fond memories of 33 years in the telephone industry.
Thanks for sharing.
Some of them bring back somewhat fond memories of 33 years in the telephone industry.
Thanks for sharing.
Apr 13, 2019 09:12:33 #
wrangler5
Loc: Missouri
The purple snakes look like some kind of "art" display, but everything else looks like ... well ... yep. 
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