31 Oct
2005
31 Oct
'05
4:46 a.m.
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 01:13:21 -0500 (EST)
der Mouse <mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca> wrote:
Tony doesn't have a "PC" (he's stated this often enough that even I
have managed to remeber it - even if I've misremembered, I'm quite sure
he does not "depend on" one) and quite likely does not have, and surely
does not depend on, a modern "harddisk" - by which I mean one with
effectively unrepairable electronics (by heavy dependence on
undocumented ASICs) and a sealed and approximately unrepairable
head/platter assembly.
Correct. As Tony has said, he has a PC-AT with one of those CPU-update modules that makes
it an 80486 system.
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http://sasteven.multics.org/MacSE30/MacSE30.html
Actually I am trying to think of anything I own and
depend on (or
even use actively) that I am not capable of repairing....
Your PC's harddisk,
Also the same
is true for the computer CPU's.
Not for most (all, probably, given his statement) of Tony's machines.
You do not want a FIB machine so you had a chance
to repair the IC
itself.
This too is quite likely not true of Tony, I would hazard a guess -
possibly excepting reasons of physical space.
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