Remember when... err... win

The controller card came with a ribbon cable, so no problem. Take the subway home from J&R Music World and Electronics, read the instructions...oh, it needs one control cable for up to two drives but it also needs a data cable for each drive. Back to the store.

My parents bought a 386SX 16MHz, 44 meg HDD and 1 meg RAM around 1992, it was a "Leading Edge"-branded machine (wonder whatever happened to them, I think they were local to Massachusetts.) I upgraded it to 2 megs a couple years later so it didn't choke as badly running Win 3.1.

It served well into the early 2000s as an email machine. Got a lot of value out of that box. Only repair I recall it needing was a new PSU sometime in the mid 90s, it was still working fine when my late father sold his home in 2002 and it was lost to history.

Ah, it looked very much like this, though we had a 3.5" drive along with the 5.25.

Looks like they were made by Daewoo by the early 90s. Well their PCs seemed better quality than their cars...

Given a vast enough quantity I reckon you could.

NT

Seems you can use neon lamps as logic gates and can even construct counters with them. Once I thought of using a bunch of them to do some simple Sudoku solving using a 3D array of interconnected lamps. Then I came to my senses... mostly.

Rick C wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:

There are some pretty cool LED arrays and controllers out there. Some really cool audio spectrum analyzer things and a cube of lights that loks cool too!

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lights

Talk about a lot of solder joints!

He is driving the base of NPN transistors directly from HC595 outputs (U10 in the diagram). That will kill the outputs after some time...