3 Apr
2011
3 Apr
'11
12:54 p.m.
Original picture looks like a miniature version of my garage back
in the early 90's. Walls lined with VT100's and variants stacked up high...
less than fifty of them in all but still a lot for one guy :-)
I think VT100s are rather more common than Apple Lisas :-)
I put no energy doing board-level fixes but swapped
major subassemblies
with wild abandon.
ARGH!!! :-(
I can see it, in some cases, evolving from
"having some spares" to
"having so many spares" to "not needing any spares because I fix
everything at the board level" but I never got there!
^^^^^^^^^^^
Dont you mean 'component level' here? Board-level 'repairers' tend to
need stacks of spare boards to swap.
Anyway, I perhaps take component level repari to ofar sometimes.. I am
often pleasnatly suprised by how many of the components I need to reapri
my clasis hardware are still easy to obtain. And sometimes if they're
not, I'll repair the component (rewind motors, make new macheanical bits,
etc). But there are components that I can't go out and buy and that I
can't make at home (custom ICs, programmed ROMs, etc). So yes, I cna see
that having some things 'for spares' makes sense.
-tony
Tim.=