30 Apr
2012
30 Apr
'12
4:32 a.m.
On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:54:11 -0400
Toby Thain <toby at telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
Then there's the bad caps problem. Almost NONE of
these get replaced
even though it's a trivial *component level* repair that doesn't need a
schematic. It seems very likely that more than 99% of LCDs that fail in
this way unnecessarily end up in landfill, when most of the components
would outlive the owner.
I am thankfull for this. At the Unix-AG (some kind of
hackerspace...)
we got lots of nice PeeCeeish machines and good LCDs because they where
"dead". Most of them are OK again - with new capacitors...
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