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Offline Chris_

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Don't try this at home...
« on: December 07, 2011, 11:30:26 AM »
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Re: Don't try this at home...
« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2011, 11:58:27 AM »
Looks kinky.

What happened, and why is that screen operational?
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Re: Don't try this at home...
« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2011, 12:11:45 PM »
It was dropped (all of those are dropped/damaged systems).

The screen will light up as long as it's getting current.  There are two parts to an LCD panel... the LCD overlay and a flourescent backlight behind it to make the screen light up.  The LCD panel is smashed all to hell but the backlight still works. 
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Re: Don't try this at home...
« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2011, 01:23:45 PM »
Are you gonna fix it, Chris?
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Re: Don't try this at home...
« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2011, 01:27:25 PM »
Ha!  No.  The damage on these computers is not covered under warranty, which is I why I have them piled up in the corner.  I wouldn't be able to get parts for them.  I have to ship them back to our hardware depot to be repaired there.
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Re: Don't try this at home...
« Reply #5 on: December 07, 2011, 01:28:30 PM »
Well, OK then!  :-)
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Re: Don't try this at home...
« Reply #6 on: December 07, 2011, 01:30:09 PM »
These Thinkpads are a breeze to work on compared to the cheap HPs I used to fix.  I like them.
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Re: Don't try this at home...
« Reply #7 on: December 07, 2011, 01:39:05 PM »
Quote from: chris_ on December 07, 2011, 01:30:09 PM
These Thinkpads are a breeze to work on compared to the cheap HPs I used to fix.  I like them.

Never did that with the small laptops. I did work on the first and second generation IBM-PCs - the ones that used DOS with no mouse.
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Re: Don't try this at home...
« Reply #8 on: December 07, 2011, 02:26:35 PM »
That would make a great background.
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Re: Don't try this at home...
« Reply #9 on: December 07, 2011, 02:46:29 PM »
One thing DOS hardly EVER did? Crash. The hard drives crashed back then, but not DOS.
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Re: Don't try this at home...
« Reply #10 on: December 07, 2011, 02:50:01 PM »
Quote from: CG6468 on December 07, 2011, 02:46:29 PM
One thing DOS hardly EVER did? Crash. The hard drives crashed back then, but not DOS.
The good old days.
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Re: Don't try this at home...
« Reply #11 on: December 07, 2011, 02:58:20 PM »
Quote from: chris_ on December 07, 2011, 02:50:01 PM
The good old days.

Yes. The first XP I had in 1982 used the green and black screen, and then I got one that had a color monitor. Thinking back, the color monitor and 4.77 MHZ with 256K RAM - I was in tall cotton!!!!!  :-)
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