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
