Have been meaning to do this with my old machines for awhile. And include copy of it in my will, while stressing the fact that this stuff is worth some money so hopefully it doesn't go to the dump. I do have a big multi-workbook spreadsheet containing all of the electronic components I have. ICs, …

Dell U2410. 1920x1080p max resolution. It's got a respectable variety of inputs , including composite and component video. It will sync to a 15KHz horz. signal on the VGA port. It usually remembers the last screen position when applying a 15KHz video signal. I'm using one right now to do experiments …

I'm not writing games or anything useful... I'm poking and prodding this thing until it does something worth documenting... so I can run back here with it and bragpost. Then sit back and wait for the 20 new YT videos of guys who suddenly and mysteriously discovered the same thing. Gonna be waiting a …

I stand by my purchase of this Mayflash Universal Arcade Stick F500 Elite. Currently in the market for a second unit. This thing is fantastic. I feel like Hank Hill and his old pickup truck: "I can't push her by myself, she's too solidly manufactured.."

I bought a used hardware firewall for going online with old Win 9x machines, and so far have given up trying to make it work. It's like sure, I can program some stuff... I can surely handle this... Hard Nope. Wasted 2 Saturdays on it. It ain't your Comcast firewall. I'm hoping one day I come across …

Wish I had more time. Got a game of Quake II and Colin McRae Rally 98 going on the Pentium Pro 180MHz 64mb Win98SE box. Actually have been trying a bit of anything and everything that supports Glide on this box, now that I have a Voodoo II 12mb PCI. I don't think I've never not had a game going of …

Hmm... Can't complain, myself. I have about 6 machines running MSDOS of some sort, spanning one end of the MSDOS PC timeline, to the other end. They all have Iomega ZIP drive (4 are internal IDE, one is parallel port), and 10BASE-T network card (those 8 bit ones were not easy to score). 3 of them …

When I absolutely do not want to damage the PCB pads and traces, I'll use clerical knife with a fresh blade. The leads of the IC are carefully cut off, and then soldered off one at a time with one touch. I'm way too accident prone for that! Would use something like Plato 170 shears to cut the IC …

When I absolutely do not want to damage the PCB pads and traces, I'll use something like Chip Quik SMD 1 kit. It has a special solder that has a low melting point and stays molten for much longer than regular solder. SMD chips just slide off pads and DIPS just pull right out of the board when using …

Because my family and a few coworkers have been urging me to be more social. I used to be very social. Dare I say, cool, even. Been there, done that, I'm done now.. thought I served my lifetime sentence of all that. So... I guess I'll try to say some more stuff about the subject matter here, and see …

I think everyone should own a couple. Yeah, I love CRTs. I counted 17 of them in my small apartment. They're bulky and heavy, and I ain't a big dude. But I'll jump right in that dumpster to recover that big ol' tube, haul it over to my car, wrestle it in there somehow, no problem. I've had to move …