26 Jan
2006
26 Jan
'06
2:31 p.m.
In article <m1F2FXe-000IyFC at p850ug1>,
ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) writes:
<shrug> A board swap is a repair I can do (obviously I have to have a
spare board). A component debug/replace is not something that is
easily within my grasp. Which would make you sadder: that I swapped a
board, or that the machine became dysfunctional and never ran again?
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I'm lazy too, which is one reason I replace
componments and not boards.
It's less effort to find a replacement chip (in a box near my workbench)
than to find the replacement board (if I have it, it'll probably involve
moving several other machines to get to it...)
For stuff I have, its more likely that I would be able to find a
replacement board than a replacement chip.
repair/replace
the individual component. For instance, I have some
spare Lilith boards, including one marked "bad", but given that boards
It saddens me that anyone would conasider board-swapping a machine as
beautiful as that.