WheelchairDriver

everyone calls me Bob.

I've always worked in some technical capacity with computers. from the early days on Sperry Univac systems up to today with Linux machines. so when my chair broke the first thing I did was take it apart....

I injured my leg a few decades ago in a motorcycle accident but after a half dozen surgeries I was able to walk again. endurance is another story. being 60+ now doesnt help..

I still keep my Jazzy chair out in the garage to help me get aroung and do work on cars. has a couple of burn marks on the seat from welding spatter while fixing my Old Chevy Blazer...

speaking of welding, I welded an arm to the rear frame to hold a trailer hitch to help with yard work...

I've had 4 jazzy chairs over time. I like to grab the free ones I find on Facebook and fix them up. Gave 2 away to people who needed them and kept one for myself plus some parts...

I just got a hoveround chair but the front wheel drive is so odd.......

just another project to work on.....

Welcome to the forum.

I also worked on the Sperry Univac. I have a long history in the computer field, having worked on many different machines and operating systems, including:

Xerox Sigma series
Univac
Burroughs
Unisys
Honeywell
Gould/SEL
CDC
PDP
Vax
IBM (mainframes and AIX workstations/servers)
HP
Apollo
Sun
DEC
Silicon Graphics
Apple, Windows, etc.
A wide variety of Unix
A wide variety of LInux

And too many others to mention!

I really miss the work I used to do. It was very enjoyable for me and always kept my mind going!

Steve

and the best part was no microscope needed to see the parts!

With my eyes, I need a magnifyer just to solder a few servo sized swg22 wires to a fight controller neatly. The super micro sm components are just rediculous to me.

korn wrote:and the best part was no microscope needed to see the parts!

Yes sir. I think I could just about see the individual bits on the platters of the very large Winchester disk drives which had very small capacity by today's standards!

Hard to believe we built terabyte scale datastores using those disks back in the 80s. Lots of fun!

Steve

Look at it the other way around.
I have a 2TB micro SD card here. And read speed is 170MB/s. Write is 100.
And a 4TB tiny SSD in the form of a NVMe drive that reads and writes at 4GB or faster per sec... Till full. HelL the the card in my Nikon is 2TB and writes fast enough to fill it in mins.

One tiny stick, outperforms your entire old Datacentre!