Apparently Sean has never had to fix a wonky VT200/220 terminal.
Most of the repairs for display issues required percussive maintenance due to bad/old solder joints. Far easier to drop the CRT from 4-12" onto a table than open the case, discharge the caps and tube, yadda.
Shut the hell up, Sean! You know exactly fuck-all about fixing delicate machinery.
I remember fixing a 486 that kept crashing by stabbing it 44 times in the side with a Philips head screwdriver. Worked like a charm. After that, I just called the computer "Tina", what with all the times I punched it.
And let's not forget the fact that any CRT monitor could be repaired by hitting the side of the enclosure really hard.
You cannot break electronics through so-called "abuse". If you hit a gadget and it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.
Anyone who says otherwise is a mincing panty-waisted limp-wristed fruit parfait.
Re: No. 7, I'm sure the kid was wearing friction proof OshKosh's. Anyway, if he was with me, he wouldn't be able to go limp. The deathgrip on his earlobe would keep his ass on his feet.
I was sort of hoping that when I bought that cheap HDMI cable from Amazon, it spontaneously created a sharply jagged cluster of calcium in Noel Lee's kidney.
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Most of the repairs for display issues required percussive maintenance due to bad/old solder joints. Far easier to drop the CRT from 4-12" onto a table than open the case, discharge the caps and tube, yadda.
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I've had many a sore quad and palm from this.
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I remember fixing a 486 that kept crashing by stabbing it 44 times in the side with a Philips head screwdriver. Worked like a charm. After that, I just called the computer "Tina", what with all the times I punched it.
And let's not forget the fact that any CRT monitor could be repaired by hitting the side of the enclosure really hard.
You cannot break electronics through so-called "abuse". If you hit a gadget and it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.
Anyone who says otherwise is a mincing panty-waisted limp-wristed fruit parfait.
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/fixed
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/that guy'd
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Lemme see...
How much an I going to spend on the Gizmodo staff?
One... Yeah. That should do it.
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/sarcasm
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