Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Floppies Date: 15 Sep 2025 07:10:28 GMT Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <106mke5$1di32$1@dont-email.me> <106ukm1$35g8p$3@toylet.eternal-september.org> <106v67a$1cgol$1@news1.tnib.de> <106vfvv$3bpmd$1@toylet.eternal-september.org> <106vi4r$3c9cr$2@dont-email.me> <3ihcmlx47d.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <1070cqj$3jkmu$1@dont-email.me> <1071hu3$1idk1$1@news1.tnib.de> <9fjemlxbio.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <6jefmlxb6j.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10884l7$173em$1@dont-email.me> <1089ge2$1fvl9$8@dont-email.me> <10a68ql$16tjt$1@dont-email.me> <68c6bbc5$0$402$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <10a6rp4$1d082$5@dont-email.me> <2d9jplxvcn.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10a6t8d$1d082$8@dont-email.me> <4cnjplxbgm.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <9DOdncUo-vACHFr1nZ2dnZfqnPadnZ2d@giganews.com> <9DOdncMo-vAaClr1nZ2dnZfqnPadnZ2d@giganews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net qVD50HUrtlYMwwVTSpKy/Qy4YYA1MBIgrcDZ+E1DGLBTrn3RT5 Cancel-Lock: sha1:gL1UpuBstmhIM6RoVX30cYKGlq0= sha256:eRPz3moDW35zXS5Y4azNEmFULdKECh5GKGEVCQfecO8= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:74208 On Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:35:11 -0400, c186282 wrote: > Usually it DID work ... apparently it was uneconomical > to coat just ONE side, so they did both even if they were just > SELLING one side. I'm not sure but it might be like resistors. Nobody sets out to make 10% tolerance resistors. Test and sort. Elephant and the rest may have been making double sided and the ones that didn't make the grade were sold as single sided. iirc Intel did something like that with processors with faulty FPUs. > Your video card problem sounds kind of weird - but early CMOS did > have its odd issues. Not really. I can't remember what the component was but when it got hot the video output failed. A squirt of RadioShack component cooler and it worked again. A 74HCxxx CMOS part was equivalent to the 74Lsxxx so it was a drop in replacement. Component cooler was handy stuff. When the Harley wouldn't start when it was hot a shot on the Hall effect chip on the ignition module diagnosed the problem. For whatever reason the OEM module was more than twice as expensive as the Screaming Beagle part so it bumped up the redline as well as fixing the problem.