xjas
Experienced Member
I kind of don't believe this. So while walking by one of my favorite "recycle piles" today I spotted this stylish bit of black vinyl sticking out amongst the AGP video cards and DDR1. Thinking there was no way it could be what I thought it might be, I pulled it out for a look:
Well:
...yep.
Aside from some stickers, it's in amazing condition too:
So that was a nice find, right! But wait, there's more:
...much more:
Here's everything I found in one shot:
This stuff survived 30-odd years, tidily stored, in this condition, until somebody threw it out.
Of course I had to open it up! I was looking for suspicious barrel batteries, and I found one:
...fortunately it was fine! It was only measuring half a volt though, and I really don't trust these things, so I took it out anyway.
(Now that I look closer that capacitor right above it doesn't look so hot.)
Other than that the innards of this thing look pretty tidy:
I did find one nasty leaky battery in the floppy drive, but it hadn't damaged anything so I yanked it & cleaned the corroded bits off the plastic with a cloth.
Out out!
Apparently the Energizers were made before they started putting expiration dates on AAs. These made a bon-voyage to the battery recycle bin.
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Well:
...yep.
Aside from some stickers, it's in amazing condition too:
So that was a nice find, right! But wait, there's more:
...much more:
Here's everything I found in one shot:
This stuff survived 30-odd years, tidily stored, in this condition, until somebody threw it out.
Of course I had to open it up! I was looking for suspicious barrel batteries, and I found one:
...fortunately it was fine! It was only measuring half a volt though, and I really don't trust these things, so I took it out anyway.
(Now that I look closer that capacitor right above it doesn't look so hot.)
Other than that the innards of this thing look pretty tidy:
I did find one nasty leaky battery in the floppy drive, but it hadn't damaged anything so I yanked it & cleaned the corroded bits off the plastic with a cloth.
Out out!
Apparently the Energizers were made before they started putting expiration dates on AAs. These made a bon-voyage to the battery recycle bin.
(continued next post)