7 May
2012
7 May
'12
1:21 p.m.
On 6 May 2012 at 14:22, Fred Cisin wrote:
WHY is the keyboard (and mouse) connector on the BACK?
WHY was the power switch at the back? ?(I loved the PS/2 bellcrank
linkage to put a power switch at the front with a long rod to the
back!)
For my first PC/XT clone computer, I built my own case. I put the?floppies and power
switch on the front and all of the ports on the side (the expansion cards ran from side-to
side rather than front-to-back). Much easier to get to the cords that way and there were
no wir es sticking out the front.
Bob
7 May
7 May
1:30 p.m.
For my first PC/XT clone computer, I built my own case.
I put the floppies
and power switch on the front and >all of the ports on the side (the
expansion cards ran from side-to side rather than front-to-back). Much
easier to >get to the cords that way and there were no wir es sticking out
the front.
Hmm...My first PC I hadn't a case :) It was everything in a corner of a
table, the board on top of some foam and the rest on the table...It was FUN
:D
4:27 p.m.
On Mon, 7 May 2012, Alexandre Souza - Listas wrote:
Hmm...My first PC I hadn't a case :) It was
everything in a corner of a
table, the board on top of some foam and the rest on the table...It was FUN
:D
You had FOAM?
I used a news-magazine. Computer Currents and MicroTimes were a
convenient size.
4:34 p.m.
Foam was cheaper (e.g.: Free)! :D
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On Mon, 7 May 2012, Alexandre Souza - Listas wrote:
Hmm...My first PC I hadn't a case :) It
was everything in a corner of
a
table, the board on top of some foam and the rest on the table...It was
FUN
:D
You had FOAM?
I used a news-magazine. Computer Currents and MicroTimes were a
convenient size.
4:47 p.m.
On 5/7/12 3:27 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Mon, 7 May 2012, Alexandre Souza - Listas wrote:
I have a motherboard on my bench at work, at this very moment,
resting on disposable chopsticks.
Doc
Hmm...My first PC I hadn't a case :) It
was everything in a corner of a
table, the board on top of some foam and the rest on the table...It was FUN
:D
You had FOAM?
I used a news-magazine. Computer Currents and MicroTimes were a
convenient size. 
6:40 p.m.
On 7 May 2012 at 15:47, Doc Shipley wrote:
I have a motherboard on my bench at work, at this
very moment,
resting on disposable chopsticks.
Always has been a sheet of plywood for me, including some multi-
motherboard test jigs. You can drive screws and drill plywood.
Matter of fact, there's a motherboard sitting over on another bench
mounted to a sheet of plywood, complete with mounted power supply.
--Chuck
8 May
8 May
2:13 p.m.
I have a motherboard on my bench at work, at this
very moment,
resting on disposable chopsticks.
When I was repairing My HP9836CU, I put the motherboard on top of the
monitor (!).
The standard layout of the machine makes it quite difficult to work on,
especially the video boards, which are hidden under the left-hand disk
drive. And you can guess where the first fault I looking for was...
Anyway, I had everything out of the casme anyway. I put the monitor on
the bench and put the motherboard ont top of it (fortunately the monitor
has a flat, plastic top). The video cable would jjust rraach. I then
cvonencted the video boards to their ribbon cable and to the coaxial cabl
to the vido output conenctor. Fitted the CPU board nad one memroy board
in the I/O backplane slot, components facign forwards (this works fien
for testing, it avoids using the I/O backplane and having an memory board
flopping arround with no guides to support it). THe PSU board when nto
its backplane conenctor, I connected a home-made cable to the input card
edge, the other end to my bench PSU.
I didn't bother with the keyboard or disk drives to start with.
Anyway,I could power up the machien like that and easily put the logic
analyser o nteh graphics board. It didn;t take long to find the fualty
IC.
-tony
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