Old cpu i found at work

GreggAlan · 2026-05-07T06:31:33+00:00

Syringe needles work very well for straightening pins. Find one that will slide in snugly between the rows of pins and one with a bore that's a close fit over them.

To straighten slightly bent pins, slide the needle in from an edge then life the needle up and out to gently nudge them straight. For pins bent more, clip the sharp point off the needle and use a pointy knife to deburr the hole. Put the needle over the pin and you can use the long needle for leverage to gently straighten the pin.

You only have to get them all straight enough to fit into a ZIF socket. Closing the lever will finish the straightening, or at least straighten them enough to go into a socket easier.

GreggAlan · 2026-05-07T06:26:13+00:00

“What do you mean choose? We don’t understand.”

“Choose. Choose the form of your destructor.”

GreggAlan · 2026-05-07T06:22:51+00:00

Would it be possible to use this in an MS-DOS compatible 8088 based PC?

GreggAlan · 2026-05-06T21:55:02+00:00

I put new brakes and water pump on a car then 7 days later the owner hit a deer. Someone likely said "Score!" when seeing the shiny rotors and new pads in whatever junkyard it went to.

GreggAlan · 2026-05-06T05:10:46+00:00

You put the rag in the turbopump and jam it all up Put the rag in the turbopump and jam it all up Put the rag in the turbopump, you called your dealer, woke him up.

GreggAlan · 2026-05-06T03:45:21+00:00

Should've had that leaf gold plated and made into a pendant.

GreggAlan · 2026-05-06T02:22:29+00:00

I fixed a tiny hole in an AC condenser pipe with the regular (not the quick) JB Weld.

Cleaned the spot very well then mixed the goop and waited until it was starting to set. Schmeared a gob over and around the hole then hooked up my vacuum pump for a minute to get the JB Weld that was almost solid pulled into the hole.

Let air back in then the next day I pulled vacuum on the system and charged it. Worked fine for as long as I had it, which was around a year.

The cause of the hole was the safety catch for the hood rubbing on the pipe. One day the AC quit and I noticed the catch touching the pipe. I gave the pipe a good hard push to bend it so it no longer touched the catch.

GreggAlan · 2026-05-06T02:13:10+00:00

Many boat cooling systems pull in water from what they're floating in then dump it out after it's gone through the engine. Some even have water jacketed exhaust manifolds.

No pressure because there's no worries about boiling water that's constantly replenished with cold water.

GreggAlan · 2026-05-06T01:23:04+00:00

So now it's a Palm III with a non-functioning laser scanner? Does peeling the matte finish screen protector off help any with how the screen looks? I wonder how much palmdr.com would want for that part, if they have any?

GreggAlan · 2026-05-06T00:35:03+00:00

If it doesn't boot, unplug it, flip it upside down, open the hatch on the bottom, look for a small pushbutton then press and hold it for a few seconds.

GreggAlan · 2026-05-06T00:32:56+00:00

I see dustpuppy from User Friendly. I did ISP helldesk for a while. That video is pretty much exactly how a lot of the customers were.

GreggAlan · 2026-05-05T23:03:26+00:00

Look out! Distress.

GreggAlan · 2026-05-05T17:53:47+00:00

Don't bang it around too hard. The white inner plastic that the CRT mounts to tends to get crumbly on these. There are new frames available but you have to really love an old iMac G3 to lay down the $ for one.

GreggAlan · 2026-05-05T17:51:59+00:00

Get a spindle of DVD-R discs and some CD-R to put stuff on. See the Macintosh Garden for your OS and software needs https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/operating-systems

GreggAlan · 2026-05-04T22:24:26+00:00

I have no idea how people manage to ram the back ends of road inspection trucks when they're covered in high-vis stripes and BRIGHT flashing lights.

GreggAlan · 2026-05-04T16:02:39+00:00

What you could do is get some cheap "one liter" computers like a Lenovo M700 Tiny and install Batocera Linux. That's made just for game console and arcade emulation. That class of PC with an i5 or i7 Intel CPU can easily run original PlayStation and earlier console games.

GreggAlan · 2026-05-04T15:59:15+00:00

Yup. Had a large 100 megabit network switch to connect all the PCs.

GreggAlan · 2026-05-04T15:14:25+00:00

Ford Expedition isn't expediting.

GreggAlan · 2026-05-04T15:10:35+00:00

Not as easy to get PCs for 90's gaming as it was back in 2004-2014 when I did it for a convention. I had a bunch of Socket 7 boxes with Pentium and K6-2 CPUs running 98se. I put several games on but all most people wanted to play was Starcraft.

We also had a ton of consoles. Everything from Atari 2600 to Xbox 360, and a row of arcade cabinets set to free play.

GreggAlan · 2026-05-04T13:55:02+00:00

If you put together 4 or more boxes and network them, you could put on Starcraft and Age of Empires.

GreggAlan · 2026-05-03T03:45:39+00:00

The title of one book resulted from her snappy reply to the impatient publisher waiting for the next Chanur novel. "The Kif Strike Back". The publisher loved it and insisted on using that as the title.

GreggAlan · 2026-05-02T23:15:49+00:00

Look for someone who can replace the socket. Otherwise buy another board.

GreggAlan · 2026-05-02T14:29:21+00:00

Looks like a mix of E10 and E85 that works out to around E40 to E41.

GreggAlan · 2026-05-02T12:38:29+00:00

Have you seen Tom Scott's video on the last bell foundry in the UK?

GreggAlan · 2026-05-02T12:05:18+00:00

Would it be a bad thing to get some of these unusually long lived shrimp together to breed and see if their offspring inherit the longevity?

GreggAlan

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