my dad had one of those, I remember using it growing up

It certainly does suck. ;)

@@CelGenStudios 😅

I grew up poor. I missed social cues and isolation meant I had to keep busy somehow. I learned to be resourceful and started learning electronics on my own and messing about with things that in the 2000's was still worthless (you know, stuff like 90's game consoles, 80's computer workstations, last-gen 386/486 computer hardware and old beater cars that were a hard sell at $500.) I can do woodwork. I can do metalwork. I can do electrical engineering. I can do drafting and I can do general home and vehicle maintenance but I still undersell myself that this isn't anything special. KZfaq is full of people who can prove they are more together than I am, but I do thank you for watching my video and asking questions. (I'm sorry. There's no happy answer to this question)

This thing was a roach hotel nightmare when I got it...but it WAS free! O:

I would have to deal with the door strike and the hinges being recessed in the door frame. I was not given the green light to start carving up that.

@22:35 Legrand owns a bunch of companies including Middle Atlantic equipment rack systems. @1:03:07 I haven't seen one of those Proton clock radios since I worked in a audiofool retail store. ;) @1:09:53 In the USA Feit (pronounced FIGHT) have been a standard at Home Depot in the USA as long as I can remember. @1:48:10 Miles and miles of facsimile paper spill onto the carpet ;)

BC Tel used to offer it in select areas. I'm neither one of those old select areas and it has not been available for years. This box however lets me mess with ISDN from inside the house and not need an outgoing ISDN line to my phone provider. You can for example, use this to connect a Silicon Graphics Indy using the S0 ISDN port that every machine has but nobody has ever used.

@@CelGenStudiosThanks for clarifying!

I tried living in Vancouver for two years (2010-2012) and even sharing an apartment with three other people, owning a bike and keeping things pretty lean while balancing one (and later two) job(s), actually being able to AFFORD it was another. I ended up with thousands in debt, a vehicle that was falling apart from neglect and even moving hundreds of kilometers away from Vancouver, it's too expensive to pay rent in my home town, so I agreed to move back into my parents house (and into their basement) while paying bills and considerably lower rent. Stuff like the meter are items I use to pay for what I use in the house, which is mostly electricity.

I've been trying to get rid of it since last year. It's impossibly large to ship and I'm too far out in the middle of nowhere for someone with a large enough vehicle to load it up and take it away. I bought it because I was kind of expecting to be moved into bigger and better things by now, but.....

That is a valid question. Yes it has been considered. My main issue is everyone I know who is local already owns a Lisa. Value-wise there's no way I'd lose my initial $150 investment on it but if in the future I want to get back into the hardware the door's long closed on cheap Lisa's like I got mine in 2010. I've been offered poor condition parts units for another project but even those were $400 each.

To see how long I can stand paying something like 25 cents a week for electricity. It can be removed pretty easily at a later date.

It's that flicker when you turn the light on. Plain and simple. I'll get tired of it eventually and convert to LED but for now I'll give it a little more time to ride into the sunset (while I feed quarters into the meter...)