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« Last post by brisray on Today at 08:44:29 pm »That was an interesting project Melooon. And so clean looking! The old computers I get sometimes have things living in them.
An interesting observation about the noises these things make. Even with the quietest, as soon as you powered them up you could hear the fans spinning up to speed and the hard drives seeking what ever they were looking for. It was never anything to worry about except, as someone said on the project page, when something started screeching because that always meant something was about to fail and hopefully it wasn't the drive.
For most I've looked at it was nearly always the power supply that failed first. I have seen motherboards with leaking capacitors but that is rare.
A little bit of history. My first taste of programming was in the 1970s with Fortran at school. Except the school I went to did not have a single computer, not even for admin use! We wrote the programs, got taken to a local university by minibus and the programs were put on cards - "do not fold, spindle or mutilate" - on something the size of a washing machine. The programs were then run on the university's mainframe.
I had to wait until 1986 before I could afford my first new own home computer which cost me an arm and a leg. A 8086 CPU Amstrad 1640 with two 5.25" floppy drives (which I had to pay extra for), 640Kb of RAM and no hard drive. A year later I got a 32Mb hard drive for it and that cost me more than the original computer did. https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=19
An interesting observation about the noises these things make. Even with the quietest, as soon as you powered them up you could hear the fans spinning up to speed and the hard drives seeking what ever they were looking for. It was never anything to worry about except, as someone said on the project page, when something started screeching because that always meant something was about to fail and hopefully it wasn't the drive.
For most I've looked at it was nearly always the power supply that failed first. I have seen motherboards with leaking capacitors but that is rare.
A little bit of history. My first taste of programming was in the 1970s with Fortran at school. Except the school I went to did not have a single computer, not even for admin use! We wrote the programs, got taken to a local university by minibus and the programs were put on cards - "do not fold, spindle or mutilate" - on something the size of a washing machine. The programs were then run on the university's mainframe.
I had to wait until 1986 before I could afford my first new own home computer which cost me an arm and a leg. A 8086 CPU Amstrad 1640 with two 5.25" floppy drives (which I had to pay extra for), 640Kb of RAM and no hard drive. A year later I got a 32Mb hard drive for it and that cost me more than the original computer did. https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=19
YOU HAVE ACTIVATED ONE OF MY NICHE INTERESTS 
I wanted to remove stuff from it I no longer use (like programs I used to work with before it got replaced with the laptop I'm writing you from) and use it to install old PC games I sometimes find while thrifting. One of the reasons I still have it around is its CD drive (still built-in!) 
