--- ajp me <ajp166_at_bellatlantic.net> wrote:
> From: Ethan Dicks <ethan_dicks_at_yahoo.com>
> ...Except for the monsterous holes he blew in the side to mount additional
> fans, and the holes in the front he added for external console baud rate
> switches, it resembles its original form once again.
>
> The fans and switches were a common mod and handy too.
Common, yes, but he didn't have to do such a hack job. This guy even soldered
wires to the pins in the DLV11-J connector rather than buy a DEC connector.
He soldered a coax cable to the bottom of the (expensive) third-party graphics
board because he didn't want to get a 1/4" coax connector.
I still have the Heath serial board with the wires and switches dangling from
it. Maybe I'll start a web page for ugly user hacks. It reminds me of the
"joke" that says in part "the... scariest things in the universe are... a
programmer with a soldering iron." I used to work for him. Great guy,
brilliant, but he will never win any awards for finesse.
-ethan
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Received on Thu Apr 12 2001 - 13:16:34 BST