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Ah, so "Goldfinger" getting sucked out of a jet is just nonsense? I thought as much, though I did have a thing for the young Honor Blackman... ...

I don't trust the low-profile ones; I'm running a 3GHz Prescott and those buggers get hot fast. That Molex one is interesting , but it clearly...

Debit, 3-5-21 I like paper money and bills but it's becoming difficult to avoid doing electronic transactions. To live easier in my old...

I have a pair of 6 year old PLA figured on my desk that don't seem to have degraded. I printed some christmas light clips that I use each year,...

The games disks I believe are OS8, not RT11 format. The XXDP.RX2 disk is a PDP-11 bootable XXDP diagnostics disk, it is not RT11 format.

In my restorations of vintage equipment I often use stainless screws. The main supplier of small sized stainless screws in the USA is PSME ...

Kind of regretted not keeping that one, but other than the one I'm using, I have no other 478 boards. I'm predominantly AMD nowadays. Which...

I am not sure those disk images have the source code to the PDP P-code emulator though (although I haven't looked yet - so I may be speaking...

Don't feel too bad, I've done the same thing 3 times with this same post!

Initially I thought you were in Ontario, California but alas just a bit too far away. ;)

these came in today, spotted two NOS copper ones on eBay for $12 ea

You may be interested to know that someone filled a whole cargo van of stuff for only $500, according to one of the Facebook admins. And this guy...

The "low end" aluminum lga771 Intel heatsinks were beasts. They were big. I never used the very fastest chips my old dual processor board could run....

Intel heatsinks are kind of crappy. The only ones I liked at all were the ones for the high end C2Q had solid copper slugs and even those are barely...

Tried cleaning the fan, unfortunately no difference. How do I get to the backlight inverter and where did you get a replacement? Of course I...

If it's not much trouble, I like to improve on replacements. Stainless instead of zinc-plated fasteners, etc. Stainless is a lot cheaper than it...

Do you want to see a photo of the broken Intel heatsink parts? The only alternative is to puchase a new one--which will probably also break. As...

I ordered two dozen replacement clips for LGA775 era heatsinks that had broken bits off ebay for $5.55 shipped last year. ...

If you can't use hardware handshake, you can try software hand shake. Since you are working on a stack processor, I'm sure you are aware of...

It would seem that the Picaxe could manipulate CTS/RTS to throttle the input to whatever you wanted.

Hi, The Minicom application for Linux looks to be exactly what I described. I see it has two settings that can be adjusted: line_delay and...

We know. Esp 20+ year old things with plastic tabs holding it together. We did battery mitigation before I got here, I don't want to tell them...

Plastic isn't going to last forever, that's a given. But it varies in durability, longevity. Here I am staring at any number of plastic vintage puter...

Actually, the bore in the keyboard is still OK because the bad screw couldn't get far enough into it to destroy it. I think it just pushed the...

Rebadging old chips has gotten to be an art in the far East. Rather than repainting the top, it's simply easier to abrade the markings and then...

Probably a brass insert--that's good. Get out your tap set and thread all the rest to agree then get some matching screws. With the shades drawn...

It's materials choice that is so often short sighted. I used to own a Volvo 940 turbo-brick. Great car; good mileage and lots of room,...

:D The chassis is plastic, but right at the bottom of the channel there is some black material, hard to tell what it is, that the screw...