10 May
2004
10 May
'04
3:06 a.m.
On Sun, 9 May 2004, Teo Zenios wrote:
In Ohio they would have been a rusty spot in the
grass. I wonder what they
were thinking having those units in a yard 15 years uncovered, maybe they
were waiting on the scrap value to rise enough to be able to scrap them?
Some people take the "Sunny California" canard a bit too seriously. I
picked up an Imlac PDS-1D from an aerospace engineer in southern
California a few years back. It'd been sitting outside against his house,
under the eaves of the roof. At least it was mostly covered, but you'd
expect an engineer to know better. He probably thought that since there's
no humidity (and therefore no rusting) in space, there's was no problem in
leaving a metal chassis outside. Talk about having your head in the
clouds.
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