Well, you were there in spirit via facetime with Tom

Here is what I came back with including what's sitting on the TV tray stand:

Ohhh I see what you did there you sly devil.

Time to get a capacitor list together. These particular Elna long life capacitors are notorious, along with the capxon crap, They all need to go

It all depends on when it was made, what brand caps are in there, and how many hours are on it.

Anyone want to take a guess of what the actual problem is? I promise it's not hard, and it's always synonymous with vintage

Oh this gets even more strange... Blue drops completely out when it saturates, Red is perfect and green is gone

Well that ain't good

Maybe subconsciously 😅 Mom didn't care for the idea too much, however.

Haha right? I've had those inverter parts in my stash for around 25 years at least, I saved them because I wanted to make portable flourescent lighting from scanners I parted out. Never happened of course, and well... Here we are.

It justifies the horde 😂😂😂

Theres going to be millionaire/billionaire companies that will flip other companies like candy on the premise of this bubble. Everyone wants in, everyone wants a peice of it, and private equity has a big chunk of it. It's part of what will feed the next crash.

It's all part of the bubble. I am just old enough where I saw it all play out before, the dotcom bubble. This one feels more intense though because technology is far more embedded into our lifes now than 25 years ago.

And with all of that out of the way, it's actually running! The software is licensed to the same person as the invoice so it's a one owner machine. Backing up the hard drive. Uses stacker compression