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I have a love/hate relationship with Toshiba.... Now, WHY in Sam Hill did they decide it was a good idea to take the same backplane and jumble up the IRQ/DMA lines between models? RIP

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Ahhh. Gotcha. I understood your phrase in a literal context.

There we go. Beautiful

To be fair, All old technology was worthless crap at one point

That's better

Capxon aka crapxon

Yep I suspected.... Plagued out

Wow it looks like the panel is made by them as well

I have owned this near 20-year-old LCD monitor since brand new, time to dive in there and fix it as it has become intermittent

This crazy thing is finally fixed. Almost... There's some ringing occuring in the video output stage

When I was living at grandmas house in the mid-late 00s still going to college, there were flying ants infestation that happened one time and those suckers got everywhere. They would STINK too if you killed them.

Oh and the ants? the infestation was bad enough they were dropping out of my ceiling fan and into my bed, biting the crap out of me... That was a hell no moment.

Annnnnnnnd thats exactly what happened! I am allergic to those suckers. They nested in the wall and kept flying into the trailer. Now, i talked to the landlord about it and his solution was to hang a trap from the ceiling... 🙄 So I called orkin and they found the nest in the wall

and yeah at my old rental trailer I stayed at for a few years, it had a major ant and yellow jacket infestation that had to be taken care of a few times.

I have orkin come out every other month and treat the house. But even so, that thing was sitting in my storage room near the door, so anything is possible.

Yummy

Ahhhh hahah I see what you did there

Just another day of insanity at techknight labs

Unboxed and built a NOS 1970s TV cart! You don't see these anymore...

You know things are going well when you have to troubleshoot a color classic like this

I have had this vintage box fan for years, threw it in the storage because the motor developed bearing issues and needs rebuilt. So it sits and looks pretty although it needs cleaned pretty badly

That was a royal pain in the behind, but the Toshiba T1200 lives to fight another day! All it takes is a simple little LDO to ruin your day

Back in the mid-2000s when I was in college, I used to service multimedia projectors for an AV company. This one has sat around since 2006 as a parts machine. Might as well look to see if I can finally fix it

It really is unfortunate. Just about all machines from about late 1994/early 1995 on forward suffer.

The unfortunate thing now is, they absolutely fall within the Brittle Plastic Disease spectrum. I picked up another one recently for nostalgia purposes, and... yeah...

Yup this was a 4130T that I got from a recycler that I was volunteering at, at the time. They no longer exist as they got absorbed by Cincinnati computer cooperative

Other two pictures. my Dell 3500 which was my daily driver laptop back then had developed a bad motherboard shortly after this.

Flashback to early 2002: Random picture I still have stored on my data archive which was a photo taken for selling a computer on eBay at the time. (Yeah I was 16 but I didn't care back then)

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