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Started fixing the machines in the early 60s. Commercially worked on the last ones I had on rent in 2008. The unit record repairs at the museum over the last 5 years don't count. Ed Fair Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

Kind of fun to watch a kid punching a card. Generally get into the hows shortly thereafter, starting with clutches, dogs, and detents. Ed Fair Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

I have a few floppy disks and a punch card from 1970s you might want to visit the Computer Museum of America where you could use the keypunch to make another. I spend a couple of hours every month there showing people how to punch cards. I also tell the visitors to the area about the other 4...

Ghost or the free Acronis that is available via WD or Seagate if you have either of their drives as source or target. I used an earlier Acronis to clone a multiple partitioned SE with no issues. But agree that it would probably be better to do it with both drives internal and running the clone...

Try a platen refinisher to have them recovered. Ed Fair Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

Agree on the support but would pull from the hall towards the patch panel. Easier to join stuff up than to break it out. Ed Fair Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

First is a power reboot of the router. If no joy the reset and redo the settings. Ed Fair Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

Used Dell workstation with raid under 10. Ed Fair Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

Would not have a problem changing the hard drive for a SSD as a start since the HD has a problem. But would also consider Linux as an alternate for the OS. Ed Fair Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

Over the 59 years I chased problems those weird ones added spice to life. Used to say that my opening the tool bag was sometimes enough to scare machines into working correctly. The percussion instrument of choice was a one pound ball-pein hammer used in percussive maintenance. Ed Fair Give the...

Not sure if your alternate address machine will need outside access so: You could add a network card and set it up to respond to the alternate address. You'll have no external connections through the router. Easiest would be to change the IP address when you need to use the work computer than...

Based on history I would try 1909 first. Had one, at least, that failed 1909 but installed at 1903. Didn't try 1909 on top of it. Had a couple that failed earlier on 1903 that installed on 1909 after 1909 was released. These were mostly Dell optiplex but I don't recall which particular ones gave...

So be brave and attempt an upgrade. And if it fails try an upgrade to an earlier version. On a couple of i3 upgrades I ended up with video issues and since the computers were activated in 10 I took the liberty of doing an install to a resurfaced drive and the video problem went away. Ed Fair...

My first instinct is to say no but that is a conditional no. What method ore you planning to use to access the external hard drive? Booting from a USB external will set up the drive to boot but I'm not aware of anything that will change the setup once you are up and running or to change the...

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