Homebrew PCBs

Thanks, Myc, rub it in a little more!  Coulda-woulda-shoulda...

On a slightly different topic, but equally a tale of woe, my hard
drive died with my EAGLE Light and other CAD-related partitions and
directories.  My last backup was in mid-March, and I lost some recent
components I made for my special library.  Not much else of value, and
I do have saved bmp's of the schematics and boards I was working on.

So, looks like a good time to go ahead and bite the bullet and
recreate that library in DipTrace.

Cheers,
Ted

By the way, the Maxtor hard drive started failing on 4/21, and I spent
two days transferring files from as-yet unaffected partitions.  By the
time I went on line and got the PowerMax diagnostic disk and ran the
test to get the error code for the on-line processing of the RMA, it
was Sunday.  The warranty had expired Saturday night at midnight!

Grrr!  I went ahead and bought a Seagate with a 5-year warranty.  No
more Maxtor for me; that was my second failed one.

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Mycroft2152 <mycroft2152@...> wrote:
>
> I've been using my Laserjet IIP+ for a while now. It
> only has 300 dpi resolution but for standard through
> the hole components its more than adequate.
> 
> It's built like a locomotive and will last longer than
> the new all-plastic printers. It's already 10+ years
> old. 
> 
> TANSTAFL!
> 
> Myc
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> --- kilocycles <kilocycles@...> wrote:
> 
> > The 300 DPI "blocky" or coarsely dithered graphics
> > from my HP LJ IIIP
> > is why I donated it to FreeCycle and bought the
> > Brother 2040.  Tough
> > tradeoff, since the Brother is certainly not
> > optimally suited for
> > toner transfer.  It works nicely for bulk printing,
> > though, and I
> > don't have to use up ink on my Canon i860 Inkjet.
> > 
> > Maybe I should have kept the IIIP and converted it
> > to a fuser-type
> > laminator unit, Stefan, but at that time, I didn't
> > know about that
> > particular option.
> > 
> > Ted
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