PS: On closer inspection it looks like wood.

Is that metalwork? My first thought is "Is that properly grounded?"

's nails

It often gets tricky when you can't ask the previous fiddler "So tell me what you did to this".

'Halt and catch fire'?

You can just hear the hum in your head. Fascinating days.

WTFMLCC

Yep, many parts of the online world have their fair share of complete and utter opportunistic shits preying on the decency of fellow humans.

Horrible stuff. I have a clever strategy for situations like this, which I call "Not having a Facebook account'! 😎

Very high tech for the time.

And I see he's using windows.

Nah, we're waiting until after Boxing day to kill you because then the sentence will be 50% off.

Pretty sure I have a distribution amp or some active box somewhere made by them and still going strong after decades.

Yep. I did a stint (8 months) of shift on a project. We had 3 round-the-clock shifts, living in a hotel. On evenings with a pint in the bar, we'd be with colleagues going on the night shift, having slept all day - so they'd be noshing a full English with their pint before heading out. Happy days.

That's a custom hole. It probably cost a bit to model it and have one made in the right shape just to fit there.

7805 resting on '9' key.

/Triggered.