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摘要

A technician's job is becoming more like that of an IT specialist than that of a greasy wrench head every day - not saying there is anything wrong with the latter! Many of the complaints and concerns your customers are bringing to you, though, increasingly are related to something a computer is doing. And the repair requires some form of interaction with that computer and sometimes with other computers that rely on the same sources of information. The first onboard automotive computers were very basic, and code retrieval often was just a matter of jumping certain pins in a wiring connector and watching a light flash out its version of a Morse Code of sorts, identifying the code that was recorded. There was no reprogram-ming, though on many models the memory chip had to be swapped from an old module to a replacement one.