redruM69
Experienced Member
Ok, so there are no matching serial numbers, and you didn't have to use a torch to get the motherboard out. I think you are missing the entire point.
Your right.. I missed the entire point, thats why I AM putting it back together, and selling it as a whole. I already told you I am putting it back together, yet you still criticize...
You broke apart a working system to part it out. A very old and relatively uncommon working system. In my eyes and in the context of vintage computing, that is sin. Especially since it isn't a lot of money in the grand scheme of things, and you had other options.
Your making an awful lot of assumptions to base your attacks on. I never even said this was ever in the original case as a complete and working system... Mind you, I do have the original case, but you still based your attacks on assumptions.
When I got this system, it was completely dead, and non-working.. full of mouse shit, and dust half an inch thick. I saved it from the dump, replaced a cap in the power supply, reseated the ROM chips, and fixed cold solder joints on the keyboard jack. and it NOW it works.. If just about anybody else came across this, it'd be long gone.
Any time you remove a motherboard or components from a case you bend them, possibly stressing them. Did you bother to wear a static strap as you tore the machine apart? (I'm betting not, but it's not like we can prove that one way or another.)
I've been working on machines for 20+years now. Im not a gorilla, I didnt bend the board, and even if it flexed slightly, PCB's are designed to take a small amount of that. I didnt wear an anti static strap. Never have, Never will. The machine stays plugged in for a active ground, and I touch the case to discharge ESD before working on any board. This is more than sufficient unless I have a tesla coil running in the same room. I am confident I can pull the board out and remount it 400 times , and it will still work as good as new.
Yes.. I am going to do that. I cancelled the auction and said it is no longer for sale. You CAN do that on ebay you know...You've got three bids on that motherboard on eBay now. What are you doing to do, cancel the auction and say you lost the motherboard?
Did it occur to you to offer it to people here first? People who are actually interested in preserving vintage computers?
By posting it on ebay, and then posting the link here, I AM allowing EVERYBODY here the opportunity to bid on the item. I no longer sell outside of ebay, due to being screwed in the past. You want it? BID ON IT.