Subj : Re: hello! :DD
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Nightfox
Date : Tue Apr 16 2024 12:57:09

  Re: Re: hello! :DD
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to AKAcastor on Tue Apr 16 2024 06:56 am

 PF> When I was a dumb kid, running a homebuilt 286 for my CS classes, I
 PF> noticed a clock crystal on the motherboard. Figured that if I bought a
 PF> faster chip, my system would run faster. I had a 16 mhz 286 for a while,
 PF> but it kept crashing. Went to 12 mhz and it ran fine.

 PF> Those solder jobs were embarassing at best. I'm surprised it still ran.
 PF> There's a special kind of fortune that shines on people who don't know
 PF> what they're doing shouldn't work.

:)  That's cool.
In the mid-90s (maybe 1994 or 1995), I got a hand-me-down 386DX-33 motherboard. The CPU itself said it was 40mhz (it was an AMD), but for some reason it had a 33mhz clock chip on the board.  My older brother had access to a soldering station (maybe at work), and he helped replace the clock chip with a 40mhz one, and also put a socket there so the clock chip could easily be swapped if it proved unstable. It worked fine at 40mhz though.

Nightfox
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