Comments on: Kitchen Table Electronics Repair: Computer Stuff

By: 1974Alfa5Spd

1974Alfa5Spd — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:23:31 +0000

That poor Model M! I can only dream of having a nice clicky keyboard like that…

By: roblok23

roblok23 — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:43:29 +0000

wow working on those deep internals of a computer is way more than i want to get into. is there anything you cant fix?

By: Viscoscist

Viscoscist — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:43:34 +0000

You deserve more views,Good sir.
Despite the lack of said views,You have helped me fix several computer and other
component fixes.

By: lynchburgcsi57

lynchburgcsi57 — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:46:40 +0000

My god… i need to buy a bad LCD and repair it. You’re an inspiration.

By: uxwbill

uxwbill — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:51:18 +0000

@Viscoscist I am glad to hear that these have been useful to you. Thank you for watching and commenting!

By: uxwbill

uxwbill — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:13:22 +0000

It won’t be like that forever. I’ll clean it up and get it going again. It should just be a matter of dirt–they are pretty hard to kill.

By: uxwbill

uxwbill — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:44:04 +0000

Yes, there are some things I can’t fix–or that I haven’t managed to get going just yet. One of them is a Teac AG0790 stereo receiver with a number of bad parts and some major burn damage on the circuit board. It may be a write off.

By: uxwbill

uxwbill — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:44:43 +0000

Well, you are most certainly welcome and I thank you for watching.

By: uxwbill

uxwbill — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:32:05 +0000

You are welcome. I need to make some more vintage computer videos, so stay tuned!

By: uxwbill

uxwbill — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:03:16 +0000

I’ve got a Debian Lenny machine running right now (450MHz Dell P3). I haven’t been the biggest fan of VIA chipsets, although it seems at the time, that they could be a better choice than Intel’s offerings. Not that the i810/815 weren’t good, but they had that stupid 512MB ceiling and the only way to go further was the i820 and that horridly expensive Rambus RDRAM or the aging 440. I don’t know how far this VIA chipset would go, but I think it might do more than 512MB total RAM.