thanks for the heads up Marty

i love old Sony stuff because they'll do shit like make the exterior boards fold out (nice) and then hide more boards inside under a complete rats' nest of wires (not nice). how the fuck am i supposed to get to that? it is time for a drink

probably Rifa line filtering caps on the AC input, the monitor will work totally fine without them, they're just there to try to reduce noise. known to explode in this period of equipment all the time

that feeling when Ram TIPM wiring harness feast is tomorrow

thrift store find of the century. sorry @wysiwygprotogen.bsky.social you are now obsolete im leaving

i think the XD88 takes the cake for "best built computer I've ever worked on" - the chassis is all aluminum, boards are all 12+ layer, they used absolute top shelf parts. it's built like their test equipment in the best way possible

behold, the CPU board out of a Tektronix XD88 graphics workstation. "yo dawg, i heard you like CMMUs..." - also look at that absolute sea of programmable logic!

found an old family photo in a tube caddy

back in ye olden days when TVs had tubes, x-rays were a pretty big concern, especially in the high voltage section b/c things get weird past 20kV. one of the "fixes" for this was to just jacket the offending tube with like a pound of lead. i think u could kill someone with this