Re: The (Mis-)Adventures of Dave or A Long Update and a FewQuestions

["Tristan" <tristan@a2central.com.remove-11g5-this>]

  To: Dave Rawson
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:50:37 -0800, Dave Rawson wrote:
>[Horrors! Oh so many horrors]

I feel your pain.

My Apple clone (I can't think of which right now) with the numeric keypad 
with macro functions has eaten enough hardware to make a grown man cry.

Its keyboard controller died, and it ate a lot of RAM. Too much. I now 
have a couple of Apple ][ boards I can't boot :(
What was wrong? a transient fault in the power supply. *sigh*.

I have also got a damaged Disk ][ controller card (The FET or whatever it 
is has a damaged leg), my wonderful floppy controller which can read 15 
and 16 sector disks has a damaged IC (I believe it is an open collector 
hex inverter. I bought the replacement and have no idea where it is any 
more).
One of my Z80 soft cards died and damn near took my //e platinum with it. 
It took the power supply. Sometimes my //e feels a little "off" since 
then but it's generally good.

There's probably more. There are stories behind all these. Shameful, 
shameful stories.

Tristan.