First post, by SquallStrife
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I have this "Turbo Board 10 MHz" XT clone board that came with a bunch of stuff I bought off DonutKing. Initially it was just tripping the PSU overload switch. I cut off the main input filter caps and tried again, but this time, nearly all the tantalum capacitors exploded like popcorn. Pretty intense. After that I removed them all and replaced them with brand new electrolytic caps, and now it's purring.
Question is, what to do with it?
My IBM 5150 contains the original IBM board, so I won't be upgrading that. I have an 80s clone case I could build it into, but I already have a Tandy 1000RL, so it would just go into a cupboard to collect dust.
So I'm thinking I should sell it. But in what shape? Should I just sell the board as a spare part? Or should I build it up in aforementioned case and sell it as a working system? Maybe rig it up with a ghetto ISA Multi-I/O + XTIDE-on-a-NIC combo?
Inspire me!!
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