TCS - Refurbishing Computers
Refurbishing Computers
by Don Singleton
Tulsa Computer Society
From the October 1998 issue of the I/O Port Newsletter
I mislaid the signup sheet from the August 22 meeting, but Gary Ludwig,
Gary Mote, Jim Erwin, and Jim Keith were at the August 29 meeting, and we
sorted out all of our spare cards and put similar cards together in boxes, and
we built an open test bed in sort of a "breadboard fashion" with parts lying on
an insulating foam pad, and got it operational. This will enable us to go through
each of the cards one at a time and quickly put it in a "working system" to see
if the system still works, and hence enable us to identify which spare cards are
good, and which are not good. It may take us several meetings to go through
everything, but it will be worth it, because we waste a lot of time working on a
system that does not work, and we don't know whether the parts we replace are good
or not. At the August 29 meeting we checked out all of the spare simms we had,
and all of the VGA cards.
I really want to thank Gary Ludwig for joining us; not only did he bring a bunch
of old equipment to the August 22 meeting, but he also helped us a great deal
with his technical expertise at both the August 22 and August 29 meetings.
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Tulsa Computer Society 10/1/98
Don Singleton, President
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