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got a cracked 8042 on this IBM PS/2 model 80 type 2 motherboard, but I'm going to try to dump it anyway! 🧵

Like 3 October at 3:13 | Open on mastodon.social

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managed to desolder it. the extra tape is to stabilize it, because...

3 October at 3:14 | Open on mastodon.social

😱 the top lifts right off!

3 October at 3:15 | Open on mastodon.social

let's see what happens.

3 October at 3:15 | Open on mastodon.social

it worked! i got data out of it that looks reasonable.

3 October at 3:16 | Open on mastodon.social

@tubetime Oof, that poor thing's taken a hard whack.Hopefully the bond wires are OK.

3 October at 3:16 | Open on digipres.club

@tubetime One of those rare convertible DIP chips.

1 3 October at 3:17 | Open on mastodon.social

@tubetime /me quietly adds to his "list of things he hopes never to see in person"

3 October at 4:42 | Open on mastodon.bsd.cafe

@tubetime don’t think it’s supposed to do that!

3 October at 4:50 | Open on mastodon.social

Dantali0n :arch: :i3:

@tubetime Some super glue and she'll spring back to live surely :/

3 October at 7:08 | Open on fosstodon.org

dojoe

@tubetime the top fell off

3 October at 7:14 | Open on chaos.social

doragasu

@tubetime Wow, what could cause that massive crack? Shock? Extreme temperatures?

3 October at 6:59 | Open on mastodon.sdf.org

@doragasu or someone put something heavy on it

3 October at 15:24 | Open on mastodon.social

doragasu

@tubetime In any case, cool you could save the data!

3 October at 15:25 | Open on mastodon.sdf.org