Subj : Re: Bake your graphics card?
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Vk3jed
Date : Mon Feb 28 2022 16:09:00

-=> On 02-27-22 07:42, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to boraxman <=-

 pF> I miss those days - back in the late '80s computer swap meets were a
 pF> great place to get computer parts. Lots of suspect used parts, lots of
 pF> haggling.

I started doing swap meets in the early 1990s.  Always a lot of fun - both
sourcing parts, as well as catching up with fellow geeks. :)

 pF> I upgraded an XT clone to an AT clone and bought a new motherboard,
 pF> keyboard, memory, multi-io card and put it all together over a weekend.
 pF> First time opening a computer, ever.

My first computer build started as an XT clone built from scrounged parts. 
That machine evolved in stages until it became a Pentium class machine (with
none of the original parts left!).


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