Michael Belivanakis 2015
At some point in my career I was working for a company that was developing a hand-held computer for the area of Home Health Care. It was called InfoTouch™. The job involved daily interaction with the guys in the hardware department, which was actually quite a joy, despite the incessant "it's a software problem --no, it's a hardware problem" arguments, because these arguments were being made by well-meant engineers from both camps, who were all in search of the truth, without sentimentalisms, egoisms, vested interests, or illusions of infallibility. That is, in true engineering tradition.
During the development of the InfoTouch, for more than a year, possibly two, the device would randomly die for no apparent reason. Sometimes it would happen once a day, other times weeks would pass without a problem. When it happened, no matter how hard we tried, we could never reproduce it. Also, some times it would die while someone was using it, but other times we would come into the office in the morning to find that it had died during the night, while sitting on its cradle, doing nothing but charging.
During the development of the InfoTouch, for more than a year, possibly two, the device would randomly die for no apparent reason. Sometimes it would happen once a day, other times weeks would pass without a problem. When it happened, no matter how hard we tried, we could never reproduce it. Also, some times it would die while someone was using it, but other times we would come into the office in the morning to find that it had died during the night, while sitting on its cradle, doing nothing but charging.