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Re: For the "old timers"

WOW!!!

I got some old reel tapes to go with that beast....

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Re: Soyo Dragon Mobo nightmare!!!!

Skeet shooting?

I had one Soyo 'bar-b-que' inside a case, burned a hole through the board when a cap popped.

I had another fail completely, not even the famed skills of TopCat could save the doomed board. I suggest sticking with Abit...

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Re: nasty spyware! remove it and look what happened to the system!


soo... what meds are YOU on? They sound like fun!...

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Re: Panasonic LS-120


Sorry, that's long gone
I do have an old Gateway PII desktop cat (it's a small thing, about a 3U)...
I plan to stuff a modern board in the thing if I can cut a PSU down to size, the PCB from a 425watt PSU I have is the same size as the PCB in the existing PSU, but the external connections have to be removed, and I can't solder to save my life. I once used about an ounce of lead solder to connect 2 wires.
I'm quite skilled at case modding, been stuffing things where they don't belong for years.

NO NOT THAT KINDA...

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Re: nasty spyware! remove it and look what happened to the system!

It's not spyware, the systems is now read-protected...

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Re: Panasonic LS-120

I also had a fully functional Digital Rainbow 100 (8088 proc) that was dual floopy, no hard drive... had every bit (byte?) of 64K or memory... that went out too.


I still have a stack of these:


AND the drives for them (SCSI of course)

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Re: Panasonic LS-120

I had about 150 of the 8 inch 10 meg Bernoulli drives... it was external (no kidding) and had 2 drives in the case. The monster was state-of-the-art in it's day...

Wifh I have some pics, but I was FORCED to toss them.

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Re: whats wrong with this picture?

With all those drives screaming for power, that PSU will burn up and likely take some of the components with it...

Add a second PSU for the drives and rig it to power on with the primary. OR... move the drives to a RAID Array unit and go SCSI and have a

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Re: This is Why You NEVER Ignore Bad Capacitors!

I got that beat... I had a cap pop on a Soyo board, they claimed I samaged the board because there were componates missing (they f'ing BURNED OFF!!)