Re: For the "old timers"
WOW!!!
I got some old reel tapes to go with that beast....
wetback
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Last Activity: 03-14-2016, 07:45 PM
Joined: 07-18-2006
Location: safely in my mind - or GA
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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...Leave a comment:
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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!...Leave a comment:
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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...Leave a comment:
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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...Leave a comment:
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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)Last edited by wetback; 07-29-2006, 08:16 PM.Leave a comment:
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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.Leave a comment:
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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!!)Leave a comment:
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