4 Oct
2007
4 Oct
'07
4:16 a.m.
On 04/10/2007, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
Nope, in two decades of professional computer fettling, from minis to
mainframes to workstations to PDAs to smartphones, and of course PC
servers, laptops, desktops and many Macs, I've never soldered a chip
or a PCB, never done anything more than remove & replace a socketed
Never too late to start. I hadn't touched an iron in 20 years but managed to
scratch build an eeprom programmer
and put together an SBC without too much investment. I look at it as mental
exercise to stave off the inevitable decay of my cognitive functions as I
get older.
chip. I've built more machines than I can remember, fixed innumerable
broken ones, restored old dead ones and given them
away or sold them,
but generally, to me, the smallest unit of a computer is a circuit
board, and when one is dead, it gets thrown away and replaced.
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