Greg Mayman wrote in a message to Roy Mcneill:

 -=> Roy Mcneill said to Greg Mayman
 -=> about "SILICON CHIP ON LINE" on 04-25-04  23:02.....

 RM> http://www.maxim-ic.com/quick_view2.cfm/qv_pk/2681/ln/en

 GM> Thanks Roy. Someone else gave me that site or a similar one, and I
 GM> found that the part is no longer available. And according to the
 GM> site, a later version of the same chip may or may not be a dropin
 GM> replacement.

 GM> But since the rest of the computer is very non-standard, and the
 GM> hard disk seems to have had a major failure, I don't see any point
 GM> to taking the matter any further.

 GM> Even the FDD uses a non-standard mounting, so it is useless as a
 GM> spare for anything other than another identical computer.

What kind of machine is this?  Sounds like some Compaq stuff I ran across...

 GM> At least I get a mouse, a keyboard, and some internal cables out of
 GM> the exercise...

That's more than I got out of this Compaq 286 machine that somebody gave me
a while back,  the floppy was definitely nonstandard,  the HDD was an 80M
drive,  the PS was very definitely nonstandard,  the RAM was soldered in, 
and most of the internal cabling was proprietary.  At least I'll get some
scrap out of it.

 GM> I may save the p/s for reworking for a single regulated output, as
 GM> described in an article in Silicon Chip magazine,

Now *that* sounds interesting.

 GM> but the rest of it is so much junk

Yeah,  what a waste.

 GM> (see www.siliconchip.com.au for that article. They have the last 
 GM> two or more years online).

Noted.

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