Notes

joshua stein via twitter.com/jcs - Sep 30 2022 17:47:12

I got this 3M Whisper Writer 1000 today but it was not able to advance the paper properly. I took it apart and found a cracked plastic piece on the stepper motor, modeled a replacement part, 3D printed it, and it works again.

joshua stein via twitter.com/jcs - Sep 13 2022 15:21:50

Well, it was this Z-Wave power control thing. When it's connected inline, it causes a buzzing through what I assume is the speaker.

How annoying that I swapped everything except the outlet it was plugged into. It was too loud at VCFMW to hear that it wasn't buzzing.

joshua stein via twitter.com/jcs - Sep 13 2022 14:24:08

I've been getting an annoying buzzing from my Mac Plus BBS server for the past few weeks and it sounded like a bad flyback, so I replaced it but it didn't fix the problem. I just swapped CRTs, analog boards, and the logic board but it still buzzed. Any guesses what it was?

joshua stein via twitter.com/jcs - Sep 10 2022 14:23:24

My networking setup wasn't working here because the 10baseT DaynaPort ethernet adapters wouldn't negotiate with stuff I brought, so luckily someone was selling this janky old VolksNet 10baseT hub that made everything work to get
http://klud.ge back online from VCFMW