dionb wrote:Ugh. Sold someone a babyAT tower last week. Shipped it out on Thursday, packed on all sides with official air cushion stuff. Gave the box reinforcing duct tape girdles. That thing should have been able to survive anyting. Then DHL gave the status update: "Sorted incorrectly, delayed because of resorting"
"Sorted incorrectly" meant that the box had apparently been dropped from considerable height onto a blunt object roughly in the middle of one of the sides. The air cushions actually survived, but the impact was hard enough to bend the case metal, damage the plastic front and chip one of the corners 🙁
Thanks DHL...
Some shipper should come up with a "do not destroy this item" option, they could make bank.
I tested 22 laptops today. I have 3 that my "universal power adapter" can't power because of oddball connectors. The PSU worked great though, and came with 34 connectors, and could power everything from a Toshiba Pentium MMX laptop to a Dell Inspiron i7 with various HPs, Compaqs, Acers, Sonys and Lenovos inbetween.
I am trying to catalog a lot of stuff I got over the winter and I'm now forgetting what I have. Not looking forward to doing the less mobile machines, a whole lot of heavy to move around.
I'm kind of cringing because I lost track of component testing so I have a ton of ISA and PCI cards to test, though I think I'm good on video cards and RAM (with the exception of SIPP as I have 2 SIPP mobos and both need recaps / trace repair.