I used to just grab any old CRT monitor and plug it in, no worries. Now I've got a multimeter I test every secondhand screen with before even turning it on, after one blew a fuse and took out my power strip last Tuesday. Anybody else checking caps and shorts on their vintage finds before powering up?
I was reading a coding manual from 1982 and it blew my mind that they crammed a whole programming language into less space than a single MP3 file takes today. Anyone else ever dig into the technical specs of old hardware and get surprised by what they pulled off?
He was talking about his T420 still working after 12 years, and I realized my new laptop has already been to the shop twice. Has anyone else gone back to an older machine and been surprised how solid it feels?