19 Feb
2004
19 Feb
'04
6:10 p.m.
In message <Pine.LNX.4.33.0402191428510.22767-100000(a)siconic.com>
Vintage Computer Festival <vcf(a)siconic.com> wrote:
I don't like to advocate the eviscerating of old
computers, but as long as
the parts are being used to build new computers then it's acceptable.
Not in my
opinion :)
If I had two broken VIC20s - one with a fried VIC, CPU, etc. and the other
with a dead keyboard, I'd move the working keyboard into the machine with the
dead keyboard. As for the utterly fried one? Find out which parts are toast,
then gut the board and keep the working parts. Of course, if there's a
white ceramic 6502 with gold coverplate, I'd keep that even if it was dead.
Later.
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