9 Oct
2011
9 Oct
'11
9:21 p.m.
On 10/9/11 6:38 PM, "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 9 Oct 2011 at 17:02, Geoffrey Reed wrote:
We have a large selection of lock assemblies I can put in :) one of the
benefits of living with a locksmith in the house :) if I decide to not go
stock and put something like a high security lock into it or something (just
to get the experience of re-pinning one)
One thing I'm annoyed about is that someone pulled the '287 chip :( oh
well, I may actually have one of those floating around... I may even still
have the 10+ MHZ one I salvaged from a dumpstered pc years ago.
I figure I'll need to put $20 in parts into it before I go and fire it up.
It has an AST ram card and another I have yet to ID. A mountain HDD on a
card, and a regular MFM/FDD controller and drive(s) there is a Orchid VEGA
EGA card in it, but I have a 1MB Tseng ET4000 VGA card to go into it :) so
I can use it on my KVM...
Looks like I have some work to do, I got the case
off, the microswitch
for the keyboard on/off is split in half (was held together by the
plastic pin and the screw that held it in place.
Fortunately, microswitches are easy to come by, either at your
friendly electronics supplier or stripped out of electronic junk,
such as printers and appliances.
The lock itself is corroded. So much so that one
of the pins is fused
in place :( so it is out of there.
Replacements shouldn't be too difficult to find.
The CMOS battery needs to be replaced, luckily it
hadn't started to
leak and drip from the pack.
And the switches on the XCELX accelerator are
broken and it won't even
try to POST with those broken off. (bodies popped off, and I need to
make sure that none of the metal parts from inside are shorting
anything before applying power
All of which can be replaced economically.
Congratulations on your prize!
--Chuck