wm_walsh@hotmail.com hath wroth:

>And, of course, all during the startup process, the lights are green.
>I didn't know that any of the indicators on it were capable of any
>other color, but at least the Ethernet indicators are.

We still don't know the model number of the Netgear router. The color
may be different for different models. I won't speculate or try to
remember the boot (color) sequence. I tried using the Netgear
knowledge base search thing for at least the last 60 minutes and am
getting:

Support Search is Unavailable

The search engine for the NETGEAR North American Support is
unavailable for 5 minutes while implementing new features
or indexing new documents.

The connection with the server was terminated abnormally : 80072EFE

Oh well. I really miss the good old days of honest error messages.

>While on the subject...in amongst the things you've been tossing out,
>were there any Dallas clock modules? (DS1287/12887/1387) I'm
>interested in getting my hands on as many of those as I can, and I
>don't care if they are depleted or not:

Actually yes. They all probably have dead batteries inside, but you
might get lucky. When I immolated all my 286 motherboards on the
hibachi as sacrifice to the computer gods, I kept some of the easily
removable parts. I'll look.

>(warning: going off topic a bit)
>
>http://www.walshcomptech.com/ps2/dallasrework.html
>http://greyghost.dyndns.org/ds1387rework/

Yuck. Dremel grinding is a bit drastic. It could easily shatter the
crystal or IC wire bonds. I like to use a chemical attack. Hysol
Epoxy Dissolver. I don't have the docs handy, but I think there's a
new improved version available from Dextor. It's mostly alcohol of
some sort and is very handy for reverse engineering potted modules.
Paint stripper sometimes works. Details when I find them.
<http://www.google.com/patents?id=-aABAAAAEBAJ&dq=4294729>

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