Date   : Sun, 25 Jun 2006 20:24:31 +0100
From   : Philip Pemberton <philpem@...>
Subject: Re: More Eurobeebness

Jules Richardson wrote:
> It happened again :-) I found a local chap off-loading all of his 
> Eurobeeb stock to free up space in his garage, so came home with a 
> car-load. Three 19" 3U chassis this time around (only one with a PSU), 
> several additional backplanes, and over 60 boards.

Wow. Nicely done, Jules!

> About 20 of those boards are probably beyond repair - battery leakage 
> and rust have both killed them off, but that still leaves a lot of good 
> boards of various types.

"Nothing is beyond repair, given enough time". Well, unless the boards are 
four- or six-layer things, in which case they generally are irreparable.

I've repaired damage caused by battery leakage - usually it's a case of 
attacking the corrosion with a fibreglass pen to remove the crap, vinegar to 
neutralise the acid, fix any open tracks with a Roadrunner pen, then do some 
final cleanup with IPA. It takes a while but I've done it...

If you end up scrapping the boards you deem "beyond repair", let me know - I'd 
love to at least have a go at fixing them.

> Nicest find amongst the pile was a CU 68008 CPU board - I'm hoping that 
> the person I got all this lot from has a copy of CU's flavour of OS-9 to 
> run on it.

68008? Wasn't that a variant of the 68000 that only had an 8-bit external data 
bus?

> I've got a pile of docs - probably covers about 95% of the boards that 
> CU made, so will get scanning this week...

Like I've said before, if you're after hosting, I've got a dedicated server 
with a 10MBit pipe and about 10GB of spare HDD that's doing pretty much bugger 
all...

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