August 2021

I’ve been called a lot of things in my time. Handsome, attractive, portly? But I have never been called a great cook. The above image is one of those fancy non-meat burgers, coupled with fake mayo on a healthy piece of toast. I started to test the waters with the... Continue reading

I did replace the capacitors in this one as they were… sus…pect (see photo below). And while there aren’t many photos, the ones I do have are now in the photo gallery in case they are of use to anyone. The serial number on this SPA112 is YM191HWJI129A. Capacitor replacement... Continue reading

I stumbled upon the IG6000 modem by mistake. I was actually looking for a regular old dial-up modem for my test dial-up network. I’ve since learnt that NetComm had been eaten up by Casa Systems in 2019. My little modem pile shows how tangled things had become: Avtek or Banksia... Continue reading