Subj : Re: No Agenda Podcast
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Moondog
Date : Wed Sep 28 2022 10:13 pm

 Re: Re: No Agenda Podcast
 By: poindexter FORTRAN to Moondog on Wed Sep 28 2022 06:57 am

> -=> Moondog wrote to Wormwood <=-
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>  Mo> I also miss zdnet and TechTV.  It' sbeen ages since I listened to twit.
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> I was just thinking back to the first dot-com boom/bust in 1999-2001. I was
> working at a startup in San Francisco, and MSNBC started with a base in SF
> as a tech TV channel. Interesting times.
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>  Mo> Speaking of Dvorak, there's an episode of Computer Chronicles where has
>  Mo> an appearance with the "new" IBM PS/2.  He was there to demonstrate
>  Mo> it's "tool free" disassembly for upgrade and service (no need for tool
>  Mo> kits in the future. )
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>  Mo> He had a hell of a time pulling it apart.  The clips and brackets
>  Mo> worked real well.  ZDS tried that and we had to use a fiberglass blade
>  Mo> tool to act as a lever and shim.
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> That's surprising - I worked in an IBM shop in the early '90s, and all the
> old PS/2s (model 25, 50, 60 and 80) all came apart with a quarter, as long
> as you weren't removing the motherboard.
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>   Other than that line, they went back
>  Mo> to screws because clips would break, and items held together by
>  Mo> friction or connector tension woul d work their way loose.  Replacement
>  Mo> parts would come with screws or zip ties.
>  Mo> 
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> ... Abandon desire

Gateway had a low profile desktop model that was mostly tool free, and the
machine would flex and the metal chassis would get bent, causing  pieces to
stick in place or have riser cards pop out from their card slots.  W would
explain the situation to the phone service tech, and he refused to believe
us.  If it were Dell or IBM, they would've replaced the desktop with less
conflict.

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