30 Apr
2012
30 Apr
'12
11:57 a.m.
It isn't odd, but of course the level you
takes the repairability of
your devices is something beyond common. I know (a bit of) the britsh plug
Err, yes...
As somedy siad a few days ago, for a lot of people, the whole conmputer
is the FRU. They don;t bother to even swap out a defective hard drive.
Then there are people who do repalce what the manufacturers class as FRUs
-- the drives, PSU, motherboard, etc. And then there are peole who would
repair those -- replace capacitors, individual ICs, etc. And then there
are people (well, at least one personm...) who wil leven have a go at
repairign some components -- rewinding transformers and motors, replacing
indivdiauly contacts in connectors, etc.
I don;t repair ICs though...
and it is very sturdy, I believe it is repairabile and
it is nice to have
some parts around. As I said, I'm just curious of how much old things you
have stored in your house :)
A lot. I've got sall soets of obscure spares, NOS and ex-equipment.
Probably goign back to the 1920s (I vertainly have some wonderful brass
tuning capacitors, low-loss B4 valveholders, etc). More on-topic, I've
got several boxes of DEC spares that were given to me -- RK05 heads,
motors, contacctors, PCBs, conenctor blocks, etc. And a lot of other odd
bits. And of coruse new components (R's and C's. transitors, ICs,
connectors, etc) for construcitonal projects and repairs.
I'm myself into this situation. Tons of things and I know no place to
store, my house is still full. I need to take a pkzip session into it :o)
Now that;s an idea. At least it's a lossless compression...
-tony