Socket Use

On 6/10/2006 at 9:17 PM Don Y wrote: No kidding. When you get one of those CPUs with the NIchicon electrolyic

disease, you pull the CPU and memory and pretty much everything else goes

to recycling--well,maybe you pull the button cell. Such are realities. To sell an old PC mobo on eBay, one almost has to include CPU and memory with it--and even then, there are no guarantees. This seems horribly wasteful to me, but then my TV is a Sony from the 1970's. Repairs have been easy and it just keeps going. It survoved a

fall off of a table during the Loma Prieta quake (cracked the plastic bezel, but some fiberglass cloth and Bondo took care of that. After a coat of paint, it looks original.) No remote on this one, but there is a mini phone jack labeled "KV-1922" whatever that's for. The portable AM/FM radio sitting on my kitchen table is likewise an old Sony, but this time from the 60's that proudly proclaims "10 transistor". Those are germanium transistors--the unit's powered by 3 D cells, which last about a year or so of daily use. A nylon dial indicator pulley cracked, so I fabricated one from the head of a nylon thumbscrew. That's been the extent of repairs on it--it's quite sensitive--even the dial indicator light still works. But with a modern PC mobo, I couldn't rationalize the time spent repairing it.