18 May
2005
18 May
'05
10:57 a.m.
On Wednesday 18 May 2005 09:41, Trevor Warren wrote:
http://hardware.newsforge.com/hardware/05/05/17/1528245.shtml?tid=6 8&tid=59
Talking of old pcs, I needed a few ttl ics and buffers to set right a communication system at a petrochem plant Sunday 3am. There were no devices available until i chanced upon an old pc. The mobo was dated 1988 and the cpu 1987. It was those horizontal boxes and weighed about 10 kgs. Inside was a 20MB harddrive, 5.25" fdd, 256 KB ram, cga graphics card, hdd/fdd card and a 286 16 MHz cpu. And several buffers and ttls. Tried booting it. But no luck as the onboard battery had leaked and corroded the pcb. I managed to desolder the ics i needed and get the communication system running.
rgds jtd