24 May
1998
24 May
'98
3:42 a.m.
Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:
Yes, I used to sit on some of the $5000 toilet seats
when I was in the
USAF. But the $190 screwdrivers broke easier than my $1.90 Craftsman.
(They wouldn't let Avionics techs have hammers -- might have encouraged
us to use them to fix the _real_ source of most of the problems, the
stick actuators [pilots]).
I know, we had "open between the headsets" as the probable cause of more
Sidewinder "no
tone" writeups than we did actual missile errors. It sure was amazing though that the
WSO's
actually were college graduates.
As per the Z248 topic we started on, I got three more yesterday and the seller told me
that
they were all totalled and just for parts. All three (at $5 each complete with 251-1
HDD's,
2 in each) are singing along smoothly and running Win 3.11 this morning. Amazing how they
came back to live after being pronounced DOA. They all have the Zenith low VGA video
card,
1.6mb RAM, 1.2mb and 1.44mb floppies, 14.4mb modems, and the Zenith VGA monitors, with
the
cooling fan built in.
Since seeing this on Zenith monitors a few years back I realized the benefit of it and I
always retrofit my own with their own fans and haven't had a heat related failure
yet.
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