Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care

[der Mouse <mouse () rodents-montreal org>]

> > Well, I don't know about the microscope, but I really like my Nokia
> > 5190.  [...]
> You can't get anything that primitive here, all the phones are [...]

You can't get the 5190 _new_ here either.  But they're available.  My
current one is a Frankenphone - my old one I accidentally ran through
the laundry, which wouldn't've been a problem except that the battery
was on it at the time, so everything died.  A friend gave me his old
one, which got knocked around a busy street and worked fine if you
didn't mind a blank display.  I swapped displays and it turned out the
display died in the laundry too.  A different friend then found an ebay
auction with a 5190 and two other old Nokia phones, and won it for me
(something like $15) ; turns out the displays are swappable between the
5190 and at least one of the others, so I now have two working 5190s
(though one is provider-crippled, fortunately to my current provider).

Also, one day it was rattling when it came out of my pocket.  Still
working, just rattling.  Upon opening it up, I found a surface-mount
capacitor had come loose.  Since I don't work with surface-mount parts,
I didn't have a direct replacement, but I managed to find an axial-lead
cap that fit physically - though just barely.

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