On Thu, 19 May 2016, Jerry Kemp wrote:

+1

Been looking for a Crimson for about 8 years now.

A couple have come up, but none anywhere close to me. Due to size and weight shipping has been prohibitive.

:(


Jerry


On 05/19/16 06:25 PM, Ian Finder wrote:
You parted a Crimson into wall hangings just because the PSU blew? They're
super easy to work on.

Sometimes this list makes me {m,s}ad.



Hey, it is what it is ... I must have been 16 and my boss at the shop had an engineering background ... no stranger to board-level repair. He wasn't too keen to dive in and attempt to troubleshoot a multi-kW switcher and I honestly don't know too many guys that are. We had no idea if the boards may have been damaged in the PSU failure so even if we did put the time and effort into the PSU and did successfully manage to repair, there was no guarantee that we'd end up with a working machine.

It was a bit big to haul to just be a doorstop ... I didn't see any real chance of getting a replacement PSU or repair in the immediate future. I just decided to save what I could ... the most interesting bits, and the rest, well, you can't save it all.

As I say, it was a very basic machine, no RealityEngine. Really all that was in there was the CPU board and an IO3B. LG1 graphics right out of an Indigo, with a little VME interposer board. Friends and family generally consider me a packrat, but I guess even I have my limits ;)

Best,

Sean

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