StingrayL82 wrote:
If AMC could take a Ford ignition system and use a GM alternator and make it work, I don’t see why you couldn’t Frankenstein your own mix and match parts and make them work.
Sometimes, there's bottomless chasm between
should work and
does work.I recall one hilarious episode where two people who worked for me tried to connect a computer tape backup unit from one manufacturer to a desktop from another manufacturer. The connection at both ends was RS232 and they verified straight-thru versus roll-over cable. (I appreciated them trying it on a desktop rather than risking the big AT&T 3B2 Unix box.)
The result was smoke and ozone pouring out of the (new, just out of the box) tape unit. They thought they were in deep doodoo. I quickly pointed out to them the attempt made sense to me. I also pointed out the Small Computer Technical Center mission statement includes trying things just like what they'd done.
(We promptly fried two more tape units to verify it wasn't a one-off event ... and it revealed a contract violation by the contractor.)
So, until I've actually tried it and it's been in use for a while, I don't trust anything. (It was two years before I trusted my marriage.)
