Good haul of old pc stuph

[Jim Leonard]

Tony Duell wrote:
>>One thing I love about my old IBM PC 5150 with ST-225 is that *it is still 
>>running 22 years later*.  I fire it up at least once a week to do some hobby 
> 
> Newcommer :-). My 32-year-old HP9830 still fires up. I've had to solder 
> one kludgewire on a RAM board to repair a damaged track, and had to 
> replace a couple of TTL chips in the processor. 
> And of course my HP9100B calculators still work, although I've had to 
> replace the odd transistor in those.

You lose -- you've had to replace components.  I don't have the skill to do 
that, so mine have run longer on original components (so far) ;-)

(I say that and, looking at my CGA card in graphics mode, there are single-bit 
errors twitching on and off -- RAM tests okay so I guess the ramdac has blown a 
gasket somewhere)

> capacitor in parallel with the head significantly reduced it.

You wrote "fix" earlier... "reduce" makes more sense.
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