27 Apr
2005
27 Apr
'05
3:46 p.m.
OTOH separating it and spreading the parts out
might allow SEVERAL Novas
to be made operational again instead of just adding one more (non-working?)
to the number of Novas out there. AND before anybody spouts off that the
This is clearly directed at me...
owners of the broken Novas should fix their problems
at the component level
and not use parts from another one, I'll point out that several of them
have INCOMPLETE Novas and need the boards, PSU, cables etc to even attempt
to fix their machines.
I have never had a problem with saving and/or collecting spare boards. I
do it all the time. I/O boards in particular are desirable because you
can add extra serial ports, disks, etc to an existing machine.
I have no problem with spare CPU boards either (I've got a complete set
of spares for my P851 and P854 machines, they were given to me with the
machines... for example). I don't even really object to swaping boards
as maenas of _repair_ once the fault has been definitely located,
although I rarely do that. What I do object to, and continue to object
to, is swapping boards essentially at random as a method of
fault-finding. It's caused me far too many problems...