Comment on 'boardswapping' as part of the computer culture.

[Scott Stevens]

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 01:13:21 -0500 (EST)
der Mouse <mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca> wrote:

> >> Actually I am trying to think of anything I own and depend on (or
> >> even use actively) that I am not capable of repairing....
> > Your PC's harddisk,
> 
> Tony doesn't have a "PC" (he's stated this often enough that even I
> have managed to remeber it - even if I've misremembered, I'm quite sure
> he does not "depend on" one) and quite likely does not have, and surely
> does not depend on, a modern "harddisk" - by which I mean one with
> effectively unrepairable electronics (by heavy dependence on
> undocumented ASICs) and a sealed and approximately unrepairable
> head/platter assembly.
> 

Correct.  As Tony has said, he has a PC-AT with one of those CPU-update modules that makes it an 80486 system.

> > Also the same is true for the computer CPU's.
> 
> Not for most (all, probably, given his statement) of Tony's machines.
> 
> > You do not want a FIB machine so you had a chance to repair the IC
> > itself.
> 
> This too is quite likely not true of Tony, I would hazard a guess -
> possibly excepting reasons of physical space.
> 
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