luckybob77

Well, when you do a full-disk image, it takes forever. 
 
A simple amount of text is much quicker. 
 
And a black sharpie is quicker still.  And that's why light scribe was little more than a novelty. 

Well, when you do a full-disk image, it takes forever. 
 
A simple amount of text is much quicker. 
 
And a black sharpie is quicker still.  And that's why light scribe was little more than a novelty. 

Well, when you do a full-disk image, it takes forever. 
 
A simple amount of text is much quicker. 
 
And a black sharpie is quicker still.  And that's why light scribe was little more than a novelty. 

Gather around children! I finally got myself a 286 machine!
 
https://imgur.com/gallery/m3a2tMY
 
well, it started life as a 286 anyway.  
 
Nothing quite as sexy as a monolithic beige tower with a power switch that makes so much noise, you would think you broke a finger.

there is a HUGE potential for quite a LOT of money there.  100X more than the raw value of the gold.
 
the key word is POTENTIAL.
 
You would need to clean and test every chip.  The pins would need to be straightened, etc.  This take a lot of time, and a lot of working motherboards to test everything.  Some of those ship are EASILY worth $100 each.  But only if they are tested, working, and clean, with straight pins.  
 
As a pile, you'd be lucky to get $1 each.

Oh, and make sure you get the $300 multi-meter, so it won't look out of place next to the $300 soldering iron. 
 
^.^

Oh, and make sure you get the $300 multi-meter, so it won't look out of place next to the $300 soldering iron. 
 
^.^

Oh, and make sure you get the $300 multi-meter, so it won't look out of place next to the $300 soldering iron. 
 
^.^

Oh, and make sure you get the $300 multi-meter, so it won't look out of place next to the $300 soldering iron. 
 
^.^

Oh, and make sure you get the $300 multi-meter, so it won't look out of place next to the $300 soldering iron. 
 
^.^

meh.  Inkjets have been clog machines since conception.  Now my HP 7475A plotter, never once clogged.  the pens did dry out pretty quick though...
 
but seriously.  unless you sit there and print something on a daily basis, they arent worth it.  At that point you just go color laser.

You can get a standard MLCC capacitor in a 0602 package up to 330uF
 
you can also get super small, super caps too.  https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Seiko-Semiconductors/CPH3225A?qs=3etwrb1wR%2BhUOph6lAO7eg%3D%3D
 
They 100% have enough power to save the dram cache to the flash before the caps fully discharge.

You can get a standard MLCC capacitor in a 0602 package up to 330uF
 
you can also get super small, super caps too.  https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Seiko-Semiconductors/CPH3225A?qs=3etwrb1wR%2BhUOph6lAO7eg%3D%3D
 
They 100% have enough power to save the dram cache to the flash before the caps fully discharge.

You can get a standard MLCC capacitor in a 0602 package up to 330uF
 
you can also get super small, super caps too.  https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Seiko-Semiconductors/CPH3225A?qs=3etwrb1wR%2BhUOph6lAO7eg%3D%3D
 
They 100% have enough power to save the dram cache to the flash before the caps fully discharge.

Got a new plaything:
RCA VideoTex Dataterm VP3501 
 
 
made sometime mid 1981, it has a whopping 2048 bytes of S-Ram.  The modem can go at the super speed of SIX HUNDRED BAUD
 
  
 
Behold the RCA 1802 processor!  its running at 1.86mhz if the huge crystal can be believed
 
 
I have to make power and video cables from scratch, so thats going to be fun.  But the data sheets for EVERY part are still online, so doing so is going to actually be rather easy.  hopefully I can find a proper manual for the dip switches, because just guessing the setting for the modem speed is not something I want to do.
 
 

Got a new plaything:
RCA VideoTex Dataterm VP3501 
 
 
made sometime mid 1981, it has a whopping 2048 bytes of S-Ram.  The modem can go at the super speed of SIX HUNDRED BAUD
 
  
 
Behold the RCA 1802 processor!  its running at 1.86mhz if the huge crystal can be believed
 
 
I have to make power and video cables from scratch, so thats going to be fun.  But the data sheets for EVERY part are still online, so doing so is going to actually be rather easy.  hopefully I can find a proper manual for the dip switches, because just guessing the setting for the modem speed is not something I want to do.
 
 

Gather around children! I finally got myself a 286 machine!
 
https://imgur.com/gallery/m3a2tMY
 
well, it started life as a 286 anyway.  
 
Nothing quite as sexy as a monolithic beige tower with a power switch that makes so much noise, you would think you broke a finger.

man, just looking at that sony is making my back hurt...
 
I do not miss CRT tech.  AT ALL.

Gather around children! I finally got myself a 286 machine!
 
https://imgur.com/gallery/m3a2tMY
 
well, it started life as a 286 anyway.  
 
Nothing quite as sexy as a monolithic beige tower with a power switch that makes so much noise, you would think you broke a finger.

Gather around children! I finally got myself a 286 machine!
 
https://imgur.com/gallery/m3a2tMY
 
well, it started life as a 286 anyway.  
 
Nothing quite as sexy as a monolithic beige tower with a power switch that makes so much noise, you would think you broke a finger.

Gather around children! I finally got myself a 286 machine!
 
https://imgur.com/gallery/m3a2tMY
 
well, it started life as a 286 anyway.  
 
Nothing quite as sexy as a monolithic beige tower with a power switch that makes so much noise, you would think you broke a finger.

Gather around children! I finally got myself a 286 machine!
 
https://imgur.com/gallery/m3a2tMY
 
well, it started life as a 286 anyway.  
 
Nothing quite as sexy as a monolithic beige tower with a power switch that makes so much noise, you would think you broke a finger.

Gather around children! I finally got myself a 286 machine!
 
https://imgur.com/gallery/m3a2tMY
 
well, it started life as a 286 anyway.  
 
Nothing quite as sexy as a monolithic beige tower with a power switch that makes so much noise, you would think you broke a finger.

Didn't they say it was because the 980's didn't have win10 drivers?
 
besides, win 7 was the best thing to come out of Microsoft.  it is the GOAT as the children say, and I will fight you about it.

I never owned an X5, but I did have an X6DA8-G2.  Oh man, back in the day when everything was single thread...  you put in a pair of 3.8G Irwindale chips, and that thing ran like a hot damn.  I actually ran a Minecraft server on it for me and a few friends.  Back when the server was single threaded, this thing was FAST.  It was a marriage made in heaven.
 
But once multi core systems became the norm, I had to retire the old girl.  she sits in a box on a shelf.