Eric's Edge
Eric’s Edge
ClaudioM
Garth Beagle
GEM is truly truly outrageousIPA doesn't seem to clean up the capacitor juice very well, it seems to make solder not stick and turns in to a brown sludge, it takes a few rounds of hot flux to clear it enough to get a connection and puts off that fishy stink 🐟
okay time hook it to a sadly insufficient 10W 12v halogen load and some instrumentation and SEND IT!!
OK, so the next thing I tried on the StarMax was to see if this old Iomega Jaz drive of mine still worked. I had backed up files a LONG time ago to one of these Jaz drives and was hoping to load it and back everything up to my FreeBSD Netatalk share. After downloading the IomegaWare software, I was able to successfully mount the Jaz drive and move all of its contents over to the Netatalk share. I even found a backup of my old family blog from the early aughts! 
BTW, the screenshots were taken natively in Mac OS, but I used ffmpeg to convert the PICT files to .JPG since I didn't have ImageMagick installed, but it worked as you can see. 
Gammitin (Ben) 💾Having a spontaneous #MARCHintosh day today, not sure how that happened.
I got this FireWire DVD-RW a while back, that I never really tested, I thought it was worth cracking out to try.
I got this FireWire DVD-RW a while back, that I never really tested, I thought it was worth cracking out to try.
dan 💾
more capacitor shenanigans for C67, another 27uf 35v on a card with... a sample and hold chip?
dunno what that does, the basic operation of a switcher is easy to understand, but how they get multiple positive and negative rails out of it still escapes me
with #MARCHintosh coming to an end i'm eager to find out if i'm wasting time and money on a lost cause
i scrub this with IPA a bunch and try to solder it, this doesn't go well
