[GTALUG] a quick question about power supplies?

[Karen Lewellen]

My apologies for my tone.
I do not wish to seem as if I am throwing  the guy who built this machine 
under the bus.
Still he has about $12 thousand in equipment of mine he refuses to return, 
so.  Add in the likely avoidable supply thing and I am not always as kind 
as I wish with my words...sorry..



On Thu, 18 Jul 2024, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:

> If I remember correctly, your "new" machine is very old.
>
> It is likely that current advice and rules of thumb don't apply.
>
> Perhaps your power supply is dying of old age.  Fans certainly wear out.
>
> Having too many things in your box might stress your power supply.
>
> Three disks seems like a lot for a DOS setup.  Is the problem that DOS can
> only handle small drives?
>
> The more things in your system, the more points of failure.
>
> I imagine that, sooner or later, you are going to have to move to a newer
> platform.  I know you already know how hard it is to stay with the
> technology you have.
>
> I don't have time to review what you've said about your system, but I seem
> to remember that you are very attached to your Kurzweil Reader and that
> Linux's screen readers are not good enough.  So I know that replacement
> isn't easy.
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