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Old computers did it better!
10-18-2018, 05:05 AM
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RE: Old computers did it better!
Funnily enough, many moons ago I had a job in Commodore service centre and the number of those C64 machines that I repaired was alarming. In the 5.5 years I spent in that job, I must have repaired literally thousands of C64, C128 and Amiga machines and they weren't all as easy to repair as the video makes out. In later production runs they did away with DIL IC sockets and the ICs were soldered directly onto the boards. Then they started using surface mounted devices...
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Old computers did it better! - Albert Chan - 10-18-2018, 12:23 AM
RE: Old computers did it better! - grsbanks - 10-18-2018 05:05 AM
RE: Old computers did it better! - Zaphod - 10-18-2018, 06:13 PM
RE: Old computers did it better! - Zaphod - 10-20-2018, 05:39 PM
RE: Old computers did it better! - Zaphod - 10-31-2018, 05:29 PM
RE: Old computers did it better! - Sukiari - 10-26-2018, 11:12 PM
RE: Old computers did it better! - Sukiari - 11-02-2018, 03:34 AM



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