15 Jul
1997
15 Jul
'97
2:41 a.m.
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 12:53:55 -0600
Reply-to: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu
Allison wrote:
>
> ->On the OUTSIDE, in their scrap yard, is where most of the computer
> ->stuff ends up. I once found a WICAT *and* an EXORCISOR II out
> ->there-- both filled with water. (Sob!).
Waaaah! No! :(
> Heh, I would have used that to get them cheap.
Then I'd take them home
> wash them out throughly and disassembled and dried them well. Generally
> water is not that damaging. Just done power them wet.
>
> Allison
Yeah, but when those chip leads get corroded and all
the aluminum
parts have this white, fluffy oxide all over them, and when you
see trails of oxide where the foil pattern *USED* to be, it's time to
hang it up . . .
Jeff
About this, do not forget about the leaking backup batteries for
static memory settings...waaaah! Green jiggles where traces used to
be...
Jason D.