tunertom wrote on 2022-03-03, 01:41:

Well today I realised that the older semprons arent totally useless, they make great cat combs

I love it! A great way to recycle dead processors. 😀

tunertom wrote on 2022-03-03, 01:41:

Well today I realised that the older semprons arent totally useless, they make great cat combs

Best use of broken, pinny CPUs I have heard. Much better than key ring or wall display.

Heh, I got a dead thoroughbred I could epoxy to a dead stick of RAM as a handle to do that with.

A technical drawing of BitWrangler's good idea.

Shreddoc wrote on 2022-03-03, 02:11:

A technical drawing of BitWrangler's good idea.

thoroghbred_ram.jpg

Essentially "RAMming" a dead horse instead of flogging it, AFAIU. 😉

darry wrote on 2022-03-03, 02:18:

Shreddoc wrote on 2022-03-03, 02:11:

A technical drawing of BitWrangler's good idea.

thoroghbred_ram.jpg

Essentially "RAMming" a dead horse instead of flogging it, AFAIU. 😉

Judging from that picture that horse is into far more than just ramming ..never thought horses would have that kind of kink 🤣

Oh sure, jockey my words around and saddle them with meanings unintended, I no mare meant to imply a racehorse than any other animal with more than three legs sired by a palomino. 😁

Perhaps someone should start an upcycle CPU cat-scratcher/cat-comb build thread? It's been far too long that the dead CPU's have laid dormant.

Maybe even a weekly/monthly competition?

Could also use them for carding out glass fibres after you've retted depopulated PCBs in solvent or acid.

I stabbed my foot on an exposed pin header on a motherboard today. My tetanus shot is up to date but if it gets infected and I die, I want my tombstone to say: death my motherboard.

BitWrangler wrote on 2022-03-03, 03:17:

Oh sure, jockey my words around and saddle them with meanings unintended, I no mare meant to imply a racehorse than any other animal with more than three legs sired by a palomino. 😁

This text is to satisfy the "no image reactions" rule. A justified rule, but there should be leeway for posts like bitwrangler's.

Did you expect to get away with "Lee"way there?? 😜

I replaced the broken ram socket on my SB32 CT3600 today. No more zip ties! Sadly I couldn't find a metal clip one so I had to put a new-old-stock plastic clip one on. But at least all the clips are intact!

HP OfficeJet 8630 Pro AIO printhead gone bad after 10 years of trouble-free service. All troubleshooting, cleaning, factory resetting and so on failed over the past 24 hours. I could buy a refurbished printhead, but I might as well get a newer printer instead for the cost. Plus, I hate those darn ink cartridges. I going to try out a Canon G7020 AIO, which has a Megatank. I ordered it earlier today. I'm hoping I can ditch ink cartridges once and for all. I'll put the 8630 away in a closet and one day I might get it working, at least for the scanner/copier functions.

I just found a '97 edition of Broderbund Print Shop, so ima need a BJC-230 or a Deskjet 540C or something that works on Win 9x so I can cheap out on birthday cards and crap this year.

Meatball wrote on 2022-03-04, 03:16:

HP OfficeJet 8630 Pro AIO printhead gone bad after 10 years of trouble-free service. All troubleshooting, cleaning, factory resetting and so on failed over the past 24 hours. I could buy a refurbished printhead, but I might as well get a newer printer instead for the cost. Plus, I hate those darn ink cartridges. I going to try out a Canon G7020 AIO, which has a Megatank. I ordered it earlier today. I'm hoping I can ditch ink cartridges once and for all. I'll put the 8630 away in a closet and one day I might get it working, at least for the scanner/copier functions.

I bought a laser printer and have never had a problem with ink ever again. Each toner cartridge can print thousands of pages and, since it's a powder, never dries out.

Inkjet is superior when it comes to photo printing. But if you're not printing photos, then a laser printer is always be a better choice.

BitWrangler wrote on 2022-03-04, 04:10:

I just found a '97 edition of Broderbund Print Shop, so ima need a BJC-230 or a Deskjet 540C or something that works on Win 9x so I can cheap out on birthday cards and crap this year.

I would really like to collect a couple of era-correct printers, but I know that I would have absolutely nowhere to put them. I also worry about maintenance and the difficulty of acquiring ink/toner. I think vintage print software like Print Shop et all would be a very fun activity.

I do keep one vintage printer but it's for an 8-bit Timex Sinclair. It's also a thermal printer so sourcing paper is easy and there is no tink or toner to replace.

Is it thermal? If it's like the Sinclair ones it's metallic coated and the single "dot" pin sparks to it and burns off the coating making a black spot.

Browsed Ebay, saw the absolutely ridiculous prices of retro hardware and wondered if people actually pay such high prices for outdated stuff.

Sure. For some people, being outdated is a compliment. 😁

Modernity is not proving so special.

Installed DOS 6.22 on a 64MB CF card using my main laptop running Windows 11, VirtualBox, and it had a few hiccups (kept crashing when I would mount disk 2, disk 3, and the supplement disk and after I got all of those set in there to easily swap the disk images, I redid the file, cleared the CF card's partition in Windows, and got the OS to install).

It'll go into my Portable 286 to see if it'll boot up this time after I get off the clock.