10 Sep
2004
10 Sep
'04
6:11 p.m.
Right. I'd much rather see a working replica next to a nearly working
original, compared to a pile of rubble with a sign: "This is what happened
when we tried to run this" and an irreplaceable machine destroyed forever.
What's the point in having a working machine if you never run it? 99.9%
of failures do no visible damage to the machine (I would, of course,
recomend keeping a careful eye on PSUs, insulation resistance, etc), so
what's the difference between having a working machine you never run
because it might do damage and a machine that's got some custom chip
failed becuase you did actually run it?
-tony