13 Sep
2010
13 Sep
'10
1:19 p.m.
On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, Mark Kahrs wrote:
Argggh!
Went with the spousal unit to a local arts fair and what did one vendor
sell? Right, "obsolete" chips. I immediately spotted a LSI-11 chip set.
And what about the EPROM bracelet?
Some gold NASA stuff as well.
Sad, very sad.
Making art from computer parts isn't always bad... back before I got into
collecting, I once found a broken 286 'laptop' on the curb. I didn't have
a machine of my own yet (I think this was when I was in the 10th grade),
so I tried to fix it as best I could; eventually I found the problem - a
corner of the CLCC CPU was chipped off and missing. I'd spent so much time
on it that I didn't want to just throw it away, so I kept some of the
nicer looking components. A few years later I turned the 286 into a
necklace; I still have it.
Later yet some a**hole sold me a used laptop at a hamfest that worked
great whan I tested it in front of him, but never powered up again after I
took it home (and it turns out everything about his business was fake,
down to the address and phone number on the very professional looking
invoices). I don't know what he must have sacrificed to make it appear to
work for the demo... I parted that machine out, and I have a nice
'horseshoe' over my front door that was a pair of type II PC Card slots in
a past life.
Alexey