buy spare parts
introduction
Buy spare parts. NICs, cables, disk drives. Maintaining old hardware means maintaining a box of scraps - a collection of spare parts, ready for when I need them.
When I buy a second hand PC, I may find a component is too old to play with modern software or is just plain broken. I need a replacement.
When the LIC is running, a component may fail. I keep the odd computer for spare parts, such as when a PC power supply starts to trip the consumer unit.
When I upgrade hardware, I may break something. In my more aggressive moments I have forced a PCI card into a strangely resistant slot, slipped and jammed a screwdriver into a motherboard and sawn off bits of a case that were in my way. Sometimes it goes well. Other times I create landfill. I need spares to complete the job.
start a box of scraps
I ended up with some spares. Buying second hand hardware is not a clean business. I often find I have too little or too much hardware.
I bought some spares.
| LIC shopping list: buy spare parts | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| name | quantity | unit price (£) | total price (£) |
| IBM PC base unit with at least 3 PCI slots |
1
|
30
|
30
|
| IBM PC base unit with at least 2 PCI slots |
1
|
30
|
30
|
|
|
total
|
60
|
|
