On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 05:05:30PM +1100, terryc wrote: > On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 02:02:16 -0400 > Steve Litt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > In other words, these are now museum pieces, not computers. Use them > > with their original software to do what they did so well back in the > > day. Drive em around on Sunday afternoon and show them off, but leave > > the real computers to computers made this century. > > Gak, they are the reliable ones. > Everything later only lasts for a few years and you have to buy another > round of hardware.
Often hardware is discarded due to failed electrolytic capacitors. People don't want to pay a couple hundred for a guy who can spot a bulging can and solder in a new one. I just got an assortment of electrolytics from amazon for around $15, 300 pieces! cheers -- Joel Roth _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
