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The video is worth watching. While popping Raspberry Pi's into old computers is straightforward, reviving such an old machine took considerably more skill. (E
by II2II 5y ago
The video is worth watching. While popping Raspberry Pi's into old computers is straightforward, reviving such an old machine took considerably more skill. (Example: repairing damage to the PCB from capacitor leakage.)
- tluyben2 5y agoI guess I have been lucky; I have 1000s of machines from 196x-200x (my 'newest' are Sun / SGI machines) and I have only had 2 capacitor leak cases, further everything that is not PC is working. I have a few PCs working, but compared to home computers of the 80s/90s or workstations of the same era, PCs seem to die much faster. The homecomputers from the 80s (ZX Spectrum, Commodore PET/16/Vic20/64/Amiga, MSX-1,2) all just switch on like I flew back in time. Sometimes the belt of the floppy drive breaks, but I have many of those.