FW: Component level repair

[Paul Anderson]

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> I have thousands of DEC boards, including DZ11's, here if any one needs
> them for replacements or parts.



Thanks, Paul Anderson

In article <e1d20d630701241825v79ce0844h46abf02c3c40596 at mail.gmail.com>,
>    "William Donzelli" <wdonzelli at gmail.com>  writes:
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> > Maintaining old DEC stuff would indeed be a niche, so I can understand
> > that. However, someof the things I said still apply. For example, when
> > a DZ11 goes bad, do you actually fix the board  (I assume, of course,
> > that you use DZ11s)?. It does not really make sense to, from a
> > business perspective, since good ones are common as dirt and quite
> > available.
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> Just don't scrap the DZ11s, make them available to people who want to
> scrounge bus transceiver chips from them.
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> Bus transceiver chips for Q-bus and Unibus are *not* common as dirt
> and more than a few of us have scratched our heads on how to create
> new compatible circuits.  Meanwhile, the scroungers taught me that
> it might be easier to scrounge the bus transceiver chips off of dead
> or readily available boards.
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