486 dies terrible death

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Wed Jun 2 19:05:23 2004

On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Tony Duell wrote:

> > FWIW, the 12V fans in Mac LC series machines seem to be of a lot better
> > quality than the nasty PC equivalent, and - at least round here - Mac
> > LC's are now even easier to come by than old AT-style PCs*.
> >
> > I imagine you'll find such a fan is a straight swap - I think they're
>
> AFAIK these fans are still being made, and are available from RS,
> Farnell, etc. Of course they're not cheap, but they tend to be better
> made than the ones from PC shops....

I've got more power supplies than I care to have. More literally come
through the door every week. I'd rather just let them die and replace the
whole supply once in a great while and then recycle the dead unit rather
than go through the nonsense of replacing the fan.

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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