40 / m / chicago / bass
I’m 40 now and have been in recovery for over 8 years. A lot of people in my old circles never stopped partying, and many of them aren’t with us any more. I feel like I see a new tribute popping up every couple weeks on social media. More of my friends are dying than my parents’ friends.
It’s a passion project/ mid-life crisis.
What the hell Michigan? I expected this from Indiana, but I thought you were better than this.
Nope, consumer. It’s a retro computing project / mid-life crisis. I’m trying to faithfully rebuild the first computer my family got when I was junior high aged. I’ve got the cyrix CPU, the EDO RAM, and the generic AT case. I just need to solve this cooling dilemma and I’ll be playing Chuck Yeager’s air combat in no time!
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure
Oh the will is there!
Nope, just the socket and its broken off tabs. The socket is soldered to the motherboard too.
I got it from an e waste trader I think. Someone who goes around to estate sales, thrift stores and scoops up anything beige on local marketplaces.
Yeah, I had one of those back in the day too. This is socket 370, so my choices for aftermarket coolers are pretty limited.
This is a fantastic idea! This sounds way easier than trying to epoxy a lego or two onto the socket.
I’ve read some 486 coolers will clip onto the offset tabs. I haven’t seen anything yet that lines up though.
Did anyone else think nuclear power trio when they saw the pic?
Coo-coo-ka-cha!