I'd been trying to get back into the swing of things and actually logon to Deviantart but never got there. It's been pretty busy recently at work. After working on a PC all day and looking after a network I sometimes can not even be bothered to turn my own PC.

I found out after the Christmas break that I have a kidney stone. Still waiting to go for scans etc... Public waiting lists suck.
Being in pain and also high as a kite on painkillers, I had no energy to hover over a keyboard. It's been pretty good recently but as I was told even though the pain stops it doesn't mean it's gone.
I soon get reminded if I over do it when riding the old mountain bike.

I had a few good finds in the last inorganic collection we had last month (where people throw out stuff they don't want by the road side for the council to kart off to the dump)
I found a 15" LCD monitor with a PC to match. I actually had a chat to the guy who threw them out. He said he'd upgraded to laptops. ???? Downgrade if you ask me.
After a bit of work on the LCD (The guy had cut the leads off) I got it going. The Motherboard I got out of the PC is a Gigabyte GA-7VAXP. It had 512MB of RAM in it with a AMD Athlon XP 2400 (2GHz)
It's now running as my second PC which has allowed me to pass on the one I had to my youngest daughter.
I also found a Victor JA-S71 stereo integrated amplifier. It needed 100V input so it sat for a bit as our voltage is 230V. As I work in a transformer company getting one made to power it wasn't a problem.
It is the most evil amp I have owned. My big sub's can only just handle it. I can't find much information about it on the net. The closest is the same model number but made with the JVC logo on it.
The Victor is identical apart from that. Victor must of renamed to JVC at the time this model was put out. I'd love to know a bit more of it's history.

Well that's enough rambling. I need another coffee.
I should have some renders on the way soon.



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