Digest for sci.electronics.repair@googlegroups.com - 10 updates in 5 topics

Harold Newton <harold@example.com>: Jan 19 03:01PM

On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 01:28:49 -0500, nospam wrote:
 
> they don't need the old batteries to have the diagnostic data.
 
Let's see if the judge orders Apple to preserve them then.
 
Meanwhile, my 2012 S3 is still running at its full claimed CPU speeds due
to an amazing ability to replace batteries at will, even from 2,300mAh to
7,000mAh capacities with an external charger & $1 rubber backs to fit.
<http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/01/19/battery1.jpg>
davepekarski@gmail.com: Jan 19 06:48AM -0800

My Android Motorola G5 plus phone decided to take a dive into the washing machine for 20 minutes. I'm looking for somebody to repair and transplant my old memory chip into a new duplicate phone of the same model.
 
Or, if they can repair the phone itself to where it will boot up that's fine too, it just seems like it would be more of a headache. I replaced the battery and did a very light iso cleaning on the board.
 
 
It will require both equipment and experience out of my knowledge base. Anybody who has suggestion I would appreciate it. Whoever can take on this project will be compensated via PayPal.
Tim R <timothy42b@aol.com>: Jan 19 06:05AM -0800

Our AEDs notify the fire department when you open the cabinet to take it out or even look at it.
 
I've never seen ours used but we put them in every building on the campus.
Ralph Mowery <rmowery28146@earthlink.net>: Jan 18 03:47PM -0500

In article <p3pff4$2r4$1@dont-email.me>, gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com
says...
> > I don't run anything or do anything with microsoft once I get the
> > computer up and running.
 
> I will say I miss Visio. But then I was using that before MS bought them.
 
I think we are sort of saying the same thing.
 
The tax program I am using quit woring with win 98, then it quit with XP
as the years went on. Some old programs that I need to run to program
old equipemnt such as motor speed controlers and radio transceivers
will not run under anythng but a true DOS program and a slow computer.
A TV dongle will show the video but not play the sound under Win 10.
With MS Office being used whre I worked, I got used to using it. Guess
that I could use Open Office at home now I am retired,but did not want
to change as the old Office XP worked fine for what I am doing.
 
I don't play games on the computer, but do have an old version of Doom
that I sometimes put on to check out the graphics speed. That thing
quit working under Win 10 ,just as some of the old games did under XP.
 
So it is the APPS that I want to run , but I still blame the OS for not
being compatiable with the old programs. The it works the other way,
blame Turbo Tax for not running on the older operating systems either.
Fox's Mercantile <jdangus@att.net>: Jan 18 03:15PM -0600

On 1/18/18 2:47 PM, Ralph Mowery wrote:
> I think we are sort of saying the same thing.
 
I have a similar problem.
I have a 25 MHz 386 running Win98 SE because that is the
only machine my older Motorola radio programming software
will run on properly.
 
I've had three XP machines that have served quite well decide
"We're done here." One got replaced with it's twin brother
also running XP. One got replaced with a recent box running
Win7, and the other a new box running Win10.
My primary Win7 had issues, so I moved the hard drive to an
HP Pavilion. That was hours of fun. But that's working
perfectly now.
 
Then just for laughs, after 28 years of MS machines, I was
given a 24" iMac. Well, that's certainly different.
Pros: "It just fucking works."
Cons: "It didn't come with solitaire."
 
 
 
--
"I am a river to my people."
Jeff-1.0
WA6FWi
http:foxsmercantile.com
jurb6006@gmail.com: Jan 18 03:13PM -0800

>"I have a 25 MHz 386 running Win98 SE because that is the
only machine my older Motorola radio programming software
will run on properly. "
 
I have a game that will not run on anything with a math coprocessor, so it is limited to a 386. It is an old poker game, runs nice and fast. Also there is a key that gives you all kinds of odds and stats. If you try to run it on anything 486 or newer you get a divide by zero error. I am pretty sure there is no "compatibility mode" or anything like that to make it run. It would have to disable the math coprocessor. The program also runs in DOS.
 
I got a windows based one which plays well on XP, runs kinda funny on Vista and won't run at all in Win 7. Both of these ran fine in Windows 3.1(1).
 
Like I said, it's not going to be the government forcing the old guy to update, it will be the software manufacturers. In my case I had to give up 98SE to connect to high speed internet. That was actually caused by Dlink.
 
I had 98SE running fairly stable. I loaded the PC and left it alone, no new software or anything like that.
 
One other thig bothers me is I had a Visioneer 6100B flatbed scanner. This was one exceptional scanner. It would scan in 3D. It kept in focus away from the glass. I scanned the ring gear from a Chevy van rear end, guns, our faces and all kinds of things. One thing I remember was a boat made of sheet metal, you've seen them, people make the out of beer cans. Well I scanned that and it picked up the whole thing even though it was bigger than the glass. So apparently the pickup in the thing had some weird pattern to it which allowed for this.
 
But I could not get XP drivers for it. I tried. It was also parallel port which is just about obsolete. I have a few year old PC that still has one, and also has PS/2 ports for keyboard ad mouse, which I use. I have an optical PS/2 mouse.
 
What I wonder is what anyone would have against an optical mouse. I would use nothing else. After all the trouble with the balls and getting a real surface to run an old mouse on I said "I want a frikken mouse that'll run on a gravel driveway" and an optical damnear will. The only thing it has trouble with is glass, or a mirror. At one poit I would only run a wireless keyboard because my wiring is a mess. But with the setup I have now it is not an issue.
 
Actually, my wireless USB keyboard ad mouse won't run in Linux. I tried to use OPHcrack on a machine and the damn thing would not do anything. I don't know if it would run in Win 7, didn't try.
 
I reloaded it, which gets me how they screw people. You can download the disk imagge of all these OSes for free. You get an ISO file which means you need the right software to rebuild the disk. Manufacturers are charging people for these restore CDs when they could get them for free, but without the nag-ware. Frikken they supposedly give you all this bundled software but it is all trial versions. Just download the proper OEM version from Microsoft.
 
Then you have to register it, and it is married to that machine. To reregister Win 7 I had to be online AND on the phone at the same time. But it worked. So don't let factory support stick it up your (_|_) charging you for something you actually already paid for.
 
You used to be able to trust big companies, now that is not true.
tabbypurr@gmail.com: Jan 18 06:14PM -0800

On Thursday, 18 January 2018 21:15:26 UTC, Fox's Mercantile wrote:
 
 
> I have a 25 MHz 386 running Win98 SE because that is the
> only machine my older Motorola radio programming software
> will run on properly.
 
Sounds painful. I once had an old 486/66 with 24M RAM running 98se, got used very occasionally as a backup machine. 16 colour graphics or something like that. It got virus scanned all of once. It took over 15 minutes to even begin to scan.
 
 
NT
Ralph Phillips <ralphp@philent.biz>: Jan 19 06:16AM -0600


> One other thing, I still use DOS, a USB mouse or keyboard wont work on
> Dos.
 
That really depends on the BIOS of the machine; I've got a few DOS
machines out there with USB keyboards.
 
(Don't use USB mice on DOS machines nowadays, so can't say.)
 
RwP
John Fanelli <f6ceedb9c75b52f7fcc0a55cf0cfbf5d_1094@example.com>: Jan 19 12:37AM

responding to
http://www.electrondepot.com/repair/brother-mdi-30-mdi-40-pdc-100-171199-.htm
, John Fanelli wrote:
> would be most welcome. Thanks for your time and comment. Sincerely,
> --
> J. B. Wood e-mail: arl_123234@hotmail.com
 
I just replaced the belt on a PDC-100. I got it from
https://www.turntableneedles.com. A 9.8" small square belt worked just fine -
their part # SBS9.8. Cost $5.
tabbypurr@gmail.com: Jan 18 06:15PM -0800

On Friday, 19 January 2018 00:37:07 UTC, John Fanelli wrote:
 
> I just replaced the belt on a PDC-100. I got it from
> https://www.turntableneedles.com. A 9.8" small square belt worked just fine -
> their part # SBS9.8. Cost $5.
 
I expect he's long gone. If not a stationery belt should do the job.
 
 
NT
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