Follow up to this Post: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/8771226
As promised yesterday, here is a look inside the machine! Before it also had spiders and spider webs inside but I cleaned those out!
Beside the dust, one very interesting thing I’ve found inside on the board are 2 seemingly modded chips with labels on them! The left one read “Ex Basic 2 | Sockel: Mitte | UD4” (Sockel: Mitte is german for Socket: Middle) And the right one just says “Ex Basic | Re 1”
On the back of the machine there is another Ex Basic related Label that says “Ex Basic=sys37100” I wonder what this is all about.
Gonna take an electric Bike pump and see if its powerful enough to get rid of the dust on Saturday, then its time to boot her up for the first proper time!
It took Covid to teach us New Yorkers that we’d been breathing in 100 years’-worth of subway brake dust every time we stood on the platform. It really got me thinking of all of the other times and places we encounter environmental particulates that we shouldn’t be breathing. As a geek who likes collecting old computers, this one is often on my mind!