Re: Opera 9 not all that PS/2 friendly...

One of the "sleepless Texans" just came back to life in a big way.

For now I've put the XGA-2 aside--a 1MB Cirrus S/SVGA card will do, even if
it flickers. (Would anyone fix the capacitor on it for me? I'll pay postage
both ways, parts cost and something reasonable for your time...) At least I
can have high color that way under NT4.

I now see that one of the 540MB hard disks never had a chance at working
very long. Two of the top cover screws are totally gone! The cover has
peeled up and taken away the cleanliness of the drive. I don't know about
the other--I think the controller board died on it. It does not even try to
spin up and was hanging the system at POST.

Apart from obvious staining and marks on the front cover, this didn't look
too bad until I started pulling it apart. The bottom was full of dry mud and
rust flakes around the plastic foot. The plastic foot was also full of mud
and rust stains. After a lot of Windex, dish soap, hot water, disassembly
and scrubbing it looks almost perfect once again. The front bezel has warped
from heat or sunlight...you cannot see this from the front, but it is
obvious from a side if you look.

Funny, I thought this machine was a 9585-0XG. It's an 0XF, and the one
running Linux is an -0X0. I wonder where the 0XG got to? (Is it a bad thing
to lose a computer in the shuffle? :-) )

William
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Brought to you by an IBM PS/2 9585-0XF "Clarus"
Intel 486DX4/100, 2GB HDD, 64MB RAM S/N 23HD700


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