Green cluster lights --- alas, we're stuck with em

[stamp11127]

Depending on your age group it can be "a lot of work" or just another day on the bench for us ol' timers.

I grew up in the 50s/60s and board repair was normal. I think Sylvania came out with modular boards back then and all you had to do was swap in a new board for the repair. Now everything is disposable.

ExpeditionAndy, I had one of those magnifying glasses when I was in junior high school. Battleship gray articulating arms with circular fluorescent light. Wish I had it now.

 

[Bedrck47]

ExpeditionAndy, I had one of those magnifying glasses when I was in junior high school. Battleship gray articulating arms with circular fluorescent light. Wish I had it now.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Helping-Ha...221721&hash=item1a2725a3b9:g:twQAAOSw4A5YvTKu

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[ExpeditionAndy]

ExpeditionAndy, I had one of those magnifying glasses when I was in junior high school. Battleship gray articulating arms with circular fluorescent light. Wish I had it now.

My mom had one of them over her shoulder so she see when she crocheted stuff which she did all the time until she was about 86 and then she didn't have patience for it any more.

The gals at my old place actually had what looked like a microscope but you used both eyes and it was only like 20 or 30 power if I remember correctly. A couple of them actually had a camera and could see what they were doing on the screen. It was pretty cool.

 

[jkayca]

I have one! It's black though. I build my own PCs and it comes in handy. Sometimes lining up the CPU in it's socket was incredibly tricky especially the later Skylake cores. Recently I fudge it up and had to very carefully realign one of the pins, if you can call it that.

 

[Adieu]

Depending on your age group it can be "a lot of work" or just another day on the bench for us ol' timers.

I grew up in the 50s/60s and board repair was normal. I think Sylvania came out with modular boards back then and all you had to do was swap in a new board for the repair. Now everything is disposable.

ExpeditionAndy, I had one of those magnifying glasses when I was in junior high school. Battleship gray articulating arms with circular fluorescent light. Wish I had it now.

Lay off the tall tale war stories gramps.... some of us young'uns messed with plenty of oldskool tech.

And can certify that 50s circuit boards were populated entirely differently.... like a rural ghost town compared to today's Shanhai level shit


Hell the very IDEA of the printed circuit board (PCB) was only patented in '56. Before that, you just had mounting boards with shit wired on top of em.


And the "chip" (IC for integrated circuit), that was only invented in '58.

LED? Red, '62....
Yellow ten years later, '72.


Remember that fancy ass name for HD video discs, "bluray"??? Thats cuz blue light was ~hella modern technology~ at the time of bluray discs' invention.

Blue LEDs took until frickin 1993 to appear. They just recently gave the dude who pioneered em a Nobel Prize no less --- not in the stone age or the bronze age, but a mere 3 years ago

 

[gixer2000]

Well you always have the option to scoop up a cheap cluster on eBay. I've seen them range from $25-200 so if you keep your eyes open you can find something to practice on.