| This is the page were faulty,
obsolete or generally crappy equipment is put to its death. Normally, a
defective item is discarded and forgotten about but there are days when
you just need to destroy something. For example, you spend hours trying to
find a fault and when you find the offending component, its a relief to
smash it to bits. Also nothing is more satisfying than putting a hammer
through a monitor screen which has a fault you just can't find; you know
those faults where you think you have fixed it, put it all back together
then it f**s up again. There are only a few things but I will add more with time.
I have done a few things in the past but I have only recently purchased a
digital camera. Some of the things I did pre-camera was set a laptop on
fire (well actually place it strategically on top of a pile of burning
wood) and see how long it lasted before it died. Another was put the
screens through on several Wyse 60 terminals (these are ancient pieces of
crap) and finally another example was wire 60VDC to the 5V rail on a PC.
The results were quite spectacular.
Old crappy Atari portable PC destruction
Look at it. Pathetic crappy 'laptop' if you could call it that. Its
actually an Atari portfolio hand held PC. This was the same type of
machine John Connor used in Terminator 2 to hack the ATM. It has (had) a
whopping 128kb of memory, a 8088 CPU, no hard disk, 128mb flash disks as
storage and could only manage a video resolution of 40x25 characters. It
could not even produce graphics hence the need to do this:-
Hah. There, its been terminated. A large hammer was all that was
needed. Note that several small pieces such as the keys and broken bits of
plastics are not shown for clarity purposes.
PD / CD ROM drive destruction
There is no before picture as you all know what a CD ROM drive looks
like. Well, actually this was a PD drive which was basically a writable CD
in a cartridge. They were the in thing around 1994 but soon came obsolete
when CD Writers became cheap enough for anyone to buy. The image below is
of what happened when it was hit many times with a hammer after failing
one day with horrible scraping noises.
Panasonic PD drive is no more. All the bits have been swept into a heap
for easier viewing.
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