Subj : Re: Magic smoke escaped :(
To   : paulie420
From : Bob Worm
Date : Tue Sep 19 2023 08:28:48

  Re: Re: Magic smoke escaped :(
  By: paulie420 to Bob Worm on Mon Sep 18 2023 20:25:10

Hi, Paulie.

 >  BW> Yeah this really stole my confidence and makes me worry about the Acorn
 >  BW> I use on a daily basis. Some preventative maintenance may be in order!
 >
 > Don't let it do that - I use a few machines that I *haven't* went thru, but
 > all could use a heavy visual lookover, a soak in IPA/alchohol (mobo) and
 > general cleaning... then, for each platform I'll watch youtube videos or
 > research what are normal points of failure - the cool thing is that 10s of
 > thousands of users have ALREADY had every issue happen, so finding out what
 > needs to be serviced, or what might need to be, is easy info to be had...

I didn't say I'd stopped using it, I just fret a little bit while I do :)

It actually got used last night to help me troubleshoot a weird issue with a Raspberry Pi mis-handling a USB to serial adaptor. Getting garbage displayed both ends when talking to a laptop over serial, both ends display fine when looping Tx/Rx... Enter the 30 year old computer to tie break... Aaand the Pi is at fault. Now packing up to go to a trade fair with a raspberry pi which has duponts hanging out the side and a USB to UART held on the top with yellow insulation tape for that extra professional finish.

BobW
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