21 Dec
2005
21 Dec
'05
3:07 a.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
You lose -- you've had to replace components. I don't have the skill to do
that, so mine have run longer on original components (so far) ;-)
(I say that and, looking at my CGA card in graphics mode, there are single-bit
errors twitching on and off -- RAM tests okay so I guess the ramdac has blown a
gasket somewhere)
One thing I
love about my old IBM PC 5150 with ST-225 is that *it is still
running 22 years later*. I fire it up at least once a week to do some hobby
Newcommer :-). My 32-year-old HP9830 still fires up. I've had to solder
one kludgewire on a RAM board to repair a damaged track, and had to
replace a couple of TTL chips in the processor.
And of course my HP9100B calculators still work, although I've had to
replace the odd transistor in those. capacitor in parallel with the head significantly
reduced it.
You wrote "fix" earlier... "reduce" makes more sense.
--
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