Subj : No Agenda Podcast
To   : Moondog
From : MRO
Date : Thu Sep 29 2022 04:00 pm

 Re: No Agenda Podcast
 By: Moondog to MRO on Wed Sep 28 2022 10:20 pm

> My Compaq Portable II from 1986 had torx or star head screws.  Later on in

that's probably because they didn't want you to service it.
> My Compaq Portable II from 1986 had torx or star head screws.  Later on in
> the late 1990's I saw they retained them in the Compaq Deskpro desktops.
> They used green thumb screws to remove the side panel, and the thumb screw
> had a flat head slot plus the torx slot.

i never saw torx screws on a compaq or green thumb screws. i have seen big thumb screws in these older computers.
i had a whole room full of 286's 386's and older junk. like you couldn't see the floor until i went through it.

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