23 Sep
1997
23 Sep
'97
9:24 p.m.
On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, John Ruschmeyer wrote:
Maybe, but I'm finding it easier lately to get
mono VGAs and 256K VGA cards
than to find Herc clones and mono monitors. I recently found a lovely
Absolutely. So keep the rarer Hercules cards :-).
It's easier to find a 486 PC-clone than a PERQ (at least over here, alas).
That doesn't mean we shouldn't keep the PERQ, does it?
There are a number of PC adapters that are almost impossible to obtain
now. Even things like the original XT serial card (which will work in slot
8 of an XT where nothing else will, and which will drive a current loop
device) are not that common. Nor are TTL-based parallel cards (which can
be hacked to be bidirectional). I have plenty of both of those, but intend
to hang on to them
Probably so... I'm rethinking the idea in favor of
keeping them and just
dumping any cards which I *know* don't work.
NO!. A lot of these cards (certainly the genuine IBM ones) can be
repaired. I don't know where the myth springs from that they can't but
it's just that - a myth.
What I would do is dump/strip the impossible to repair ones (one big FQFP
chip with no standard equivalnet), and keep _all_ IBM (working or not),
_all_ repairable clones (TTL+standard ICs), and all working ones.
<<<John>>>
-tony