Re: Stripping down pc

Alex Threlfall wrote
In article <GvNEeLAfjP0GFwQ3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
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Harry Syme wrote

I had an old mainboard and was looking at it and thinking "is any of this
any use" and the only bit I could actually (maybe) use at some point, was
the cmos battery or cell as pointed out.

There is always the good chance the older motherboard will have a
socketed BIOS chip, which can be gently eased out, and, pins-up,
carefully placed at the exact location on your desk that, in ten minutes
time, you are about to plonk a fresh mug of coffee, thus rendering this
valuable semi-obsolete spare part utterly unusable.

Surely you mean the exact location where your arm hits the desk as you
plonk the fresh mug of coffee down?

I have never (18yrs) gotten around to dealing with a sharp nail stub on
the underside of the centre drawer that gets me regularly, and have just
almost removed a fingernail exploring for and finding it, and despite
the fact that I know I have many tools to remove it, indoors and within
fifteen feet of it, I simply can't be arsed.
Or by the desk on the floor as you
walk past barefoot?

Rexel No56 - palm of hand - let me introduce you to each other.
Been there, done both. Oww.

What? At the same time?
It would have been like ballet recoiling from one to land on the other.
--
Roger Hunt
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