It looks just grimy until you get past the 4th PCI down and then there's some gnarly looking corrosion, like maybe the BIOS isn't making contact for one thing.
Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.
Picked up this Osborne 1 from Craigslist today for a solid price ($100). By far the oldest in my collection now.
I have no software for it. I am thinking of either getting a set of Osborne software from eBay ($40) or buying a 5.25 drive for one of my other machines and making my own floppies for it. Or going with a GoTek floppy emulator. I am probably going to start by ordering the Osborne software, then see if the drives work, and maybe install the GoTek emulator later. What would you do?
Ultimately I plan on using this machine to SSH into my homelab server by way of Raspberry Pi and a serial connection.
It looks just grimy until you get past the 4th PCI down and then there's some gnarly looking corrosion, like maybe the BIOS isn't making contact for one thing.
Hahah yea it is wicked nasty!, but I still think there's hope for a post . I'm gonna get after it tomorrow with a toothbrush and alcohol ect. 👍 I also don't have 2 socket 370 coolers 🙁
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Socket A coolers also work if you have any of those.
recently I was also looking for a decent S370 cooler and ofcourse I had some socket-a ones at hand
but I noticed that the retention clip of the athlon coolers is more rigid than the intel ones - it was made to apply more pressure on the cpu for better heat transfer
but AFAIR the socket-a athlon cpus had pads on their 4 corners to protect the die from cracking due to pressure / install of the heatsink
such pads do not exist (or needed) on the intel cpus
so maybe something to consider
keropiwrote on 2024-07-07, 09:53:recently I was also looking for a decent S370 cooler and ofcourse I had some socket-a ones at hand
but I noticed that the retent […] Show full quote
Socket A coolers also work if you have any of those.
recently I was also looking for a decent S370 cooler and ofcourse I had some socket-a ones at hand
but I noticed that the retention clip of the athlon coolers is more rigid than the intel ones - it was made to apply more pressure on the cpu for better heat transfer
but AFAIR the socket-a athlon cpus had pads on their 4 corners to protect the die from cracking due to pressure / install of the heatsink
such pads do not exist (or needed) on the intel cpus
so maybe something to consider
I make shims from bits of dense foam for this, little square ones that I just stick to the substrate. They pretty much serve the same purpose as the ones on Athlon CPUs, dense foam is pretty easy to have at hand if you do any sort of shipping or store CPUs, but I guess some normal foam would work too.
I guess you could also use the 3M double sided sticky pads but only remove the backing from one side and just cut them to size.
Found this magnificently ugly beautiful beast at thrift center for 15$, CPU's included!! You think it will post?? 😁
Did it post?
Unfortunately no 😂, no beeps or anything. It does power on? And yes that pic is real LoL! To be fair I don't think I have the right/correct psu for the job. Nor did I test the CPU's individually, but even if they were bad I would get a beep I suppose. 🧐🤔
Found this magnificently ugly beautiful beast at thrift center for 15$, CPU's included!! You think it will post?? 😁
Did it post?
Unfortunately no 😂, no beeps or anything. It does power on? And yes that pic is real LoL! To be fair I don't think I have the right/correct psu for the job. Nor did I test the CPU's individually, but even if they were bad I would get a beep I suppose. 🧐🤔
That's a shame. I don't suppose you have a post code analyzer card?
Unfortunately no 😂, no beeps or anything. It does power on? And yes that pic is real LoL! To be fair I don't think I have the right/correct psu for the job. Nor did I test the CPU's individually, but even if they were bad I would get a beep I suppose. 🧐🤔
That's a shame. I don't suppose you have a post code analyzer card?
** Update, Both CPU's Tested good in another machine**
I do not have any special diagnostic tools unfortunately. 🙁
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