British Computers.

Now for something a bit more serious. I have been building up my collection of DEC equipment. The vast majority of it works at least to a level where it passes the diagnostics. DEC equipment was always well built. The OEM market installed DEC equipment in all kinds of bad environments. As the equipment is robust you can be fairly heavy on the cleaning side. The yellowing on VT series cases responds to a Brillo Pad No, it does not scratch it for the same reason they use wire wool and turpentine on antique furniture On LK series keyboards you can remove the key caps put then in a bucket and zap with a power washer. No, the letters will not come off they are two part moulded. The letter is part of the plastic. Whilst I don't travel much these days. (Broadband means I can get to a customers system in seconds) I must make an effort to come up to BP. Rod Smallwood -----Original Message----- From: cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jules Richardson Sent: 05 September 2007 01:24 To: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: British Computers. Rod Smallwood wrote: Heh :-) Being as hands-on as possible is still one of our primary goals - although there's always going to be caveats on what's left running, or what level of supervision any given system has of course, but for the majority of machines we actively encourage people to sit down and have a play. The best will in the world probably isn't going to keep this stuff operational much beyond a few decades, and I'm not sure if anyone really knows what's going to happen to the plastics a few more decades beyond that; whilst we have a duty to store inactive systems for future generations, it also seems wise to let people extract maximum enjoyment out of these systems now whilst they still can... cheers Jules