WTB: Bridgeboard

[LoadWB]

In one of the other forums I participate in (a forum for Chevy trucks) a guy recently gave me grief because I took apart my dashboard to add some USB ports.  He was all like "Why not just use one of those little cigarette lighter adapters to add USB plugs?" -- Well, maybe because I didn't want to, bud.  Why does anybody do anything?  Why not just drive around stock vehicles like they came from the factory, or use bone-stock, unmodified Amiga's like god and Commodore intended, right?  :laughing:

A-f'n-men.  Why do we climb the mountain?  Because it's there.  If you don't get it then move on.

I have a bridge board that I've been dying to try out.  Only an 8088 but I'd like to see what it can do, in particular in light of the new demos coming along for the old chip.  A long time ago I had a lead on a 486 bridge board (386 with upgrade,) sent off my money and never got it.  I believe I was one of several suckers on that deal.

[LoadWB]

And NEVER send money directly to anyone dude, that's dumb.

I was young with more money than cynicism and caution.  Experience is the best teacher, yeah?

[LoadWB]

I don't see the damage you two apparently perceive near the battery. Could you point it out?

In the close-up of the battery, look at the bottom-left of the photo (zoom in) at the jumper.  The top of the jumper has the tell-tale sign of battery corrosion.  If the battery juice followed the traces to the top of that jumper then there's no telling what other damage has been done to the board.

Shame, really.  It *might* be fixable by one of our resident Amiga-fixers, but I am sure for a handsome premium.

[LoadWB]

Well, I wouldn't necessarily call it a total loss, but it's going to be a bit of a gamble considering it hasn't been tested but used to work some undetermined number of years ago in an Amiga 3000.

[LoadWB]

Also look at the backside of the board, there are some dark spots several places around the area of the battery. If this is a multilayer printboard and the battery fluid have penetrated through the board there are likely some damage in the middle layers as well.

Yeah, I'm really disappointed.

[LoadWB]

I mean, who believed in pocket communicators, talking computers like the Amiga, quantum communicators, or handheld medical scanners back in the 1960s? They all exist now in some form or other, today.

Sci-fi enthusiasts?

What some perceive as "solid matter" really is just highly condensed, reasonating "energy". If you choose to study polydimensional mathematics, it gets even more complex, so I'll just leave it there.

Being able to go from one to the other... just with solid objects... hmmm... useful technology.

Whatever.  Prove to me any of this is real and not just a figment of my imagination.  For that matter, prove to me that we're not all just a perception of a holographic projection of the universe.

While you're at it, bring me no tea, please.