12 Jan
2015
12 Jan
'15
8:21 p.m.
On 01/12/2015 08:53 PM, tony duell wrote:
Actually, a lot of things are not easy to learn. I
fact I struggle to think
of anything worthwhile that is.
Well, perhaps my choice of word wasn't the best. I certainly didn't mean
to say that the subject matter should be made "easy". Computer
restoration is challenging and difficult, I acknowledge that. What I
wanted was to make the subject more approachable.
Hang on. I post here. I write repair articles for
HPCC. Every year I give
a talk at HPCC on the internals of some old HP device (last time it
was the HP11305 disk controller for the HP9830, something that it is
not easy to find technical info on [1]). What more do you want?
(Said with tongue firmly in cheek).
:) And I try to read (and understand) most of what you write, even if
it's not directly related to what I collect. What is this HPCC that you
I have often thought about writing a more general
'book' on classic computer
repair but it either ends up far too trivial (explaining gates and flipflops and
linear PSUs,) or very machine-specific.
When I think more about it. I think I want a book that guides me through
restoration of computers from digital between 1970 and 1980, since that
is my main interest. I realize that a book about restoring micros from
1980 and onwards would be a very different book.
Still, I don't think either of those books exist.
Regards,
Pontus.