4 Apr
2005
4 Apr
'05
8:59 a.m.
On Apr 4, 2005 7:19 AM, John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> wrote:
I was hunting for odd bits in my piles the other night
and was
shocked at the decay of several plastic parts. The ends of a
set of GPIB cables for an old CBM disk drive were covered in a
white powder coating - not mold, but slow decay of the plastic.
I have been seeing the same thing with my C= GPIB cables (as well as
certain tool handles from the same era). AFAIK, it's inevitable with
that sort of plastic.
-ethan