The next repair project: these horrible Chinese desolder guns. The muzzle part breaks off. It's being held on by a tiny bit of plastic that just gives out after a bit of use. I fixed one of them with a pipe clamp and copious amounts of glue. Works great. Next problem however: The release mechanism for the solder collection vial breaks.

Seriously, these things are awful in every regard. And so is the base station as it runs a tiny cooling fan at like twice the voltage.

It's pretty obvious how the release mechanism works.

Back in business. That is, once the glue has dried.

I really need to get something better, soon.

Wow, the difference an 8087 makes

Telegram on the XT, using an IRC bridge

Let me sing you the song of my people:

Burning the midnight oil like it's 1986

warn sus 👀

Computers of the GDR (aka East Germany)

Borland's Turbo C has a nice graphics library that works on anything that can do bitmapped graphics