22 Feb
2003
22 Feb
'03
9:09 p.m.
A good part of my collection are boards, chips, drives,
and other old equipment that is not easily available now.
I think most collectors also have these, as well as a
second model of their most treasured computer in case
some part becomes no longer available.
As a compulsive packrat I even have a stash of tubes
for the few remaining tube gear that I have. And also
in case I run across some nice audio equipment that
is missing tubes.
I even carried around a kit of plugs, patches, glue,and
repair tools for years from the days when I was a Tire
repair man, until my ex forced me to abandon them
8 years ago. DAMN her disrespectful hide !!
Sipps are another problem. I had to buy some on EPay
a while back for my Grid 1520 since I could find no
source for them, altho I now have a pretty good lead and
have to stock up, because they will be virtually
impossible to find in a few years.
But all of that goes with the territory we stake.
Lawrence
On 23 Feb 2003, , Philip Pemberton wrote:
Tony Duell wrote:
Can you rework 8-layer PC motherboards then? <g>
Later.
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Phil.
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Can you?
What about :
30 pin SIMMs and/or SIPPs (I've not seen those listed for
several years)
Me neither, and I need some 2MB 30-pin SIMMs for an old
386-based machine. It's got 8x 1MB SIMMs fitted now, $DEITY
knows how much it can take in total, I'm guessing around
16MB. What I'd like to know is why it's reporting 8064K of
RAM when it's got 8192K (8MB) fitted... I'm guessing the
chipset is stealing some system RAM for a CPU cache or
something.
PC/XT compatible keyboards. Heck, _any_ useful 8
bit ISA
card
I want a keyboard with a buckling-spring mechanism (IBM
"Model M" IIRC)
5.25" floppy drives
I've got one
of those. A YE-DATA open-frame (no metal
covers) drive out of an old Packard Bell Legend 386. Has
anyone got an ISA slot riser card that plugs into an ISA
slot and provides three or more horizontal slots instead of
one vertical slot?
One thing
I'm slightly suprised about is that you're not
claiming that it's easy to service 'real computers' at
the component level. Of course,
That is one definition of 'real computer'
that I sometimes
use :-)