vintage computers and lead poisoning?

I can - or else, I can't think of any that ever were. The only question is what level the FRU is at. In the days of early (firebottle) consumer electronics, swapping out a tube with a blown filament was a routine repair for many, though many were afraid to try it; replacing something else - say, a fried resistor - was the province of repair shops and the rare end-user. The valves would be considered FRUs in today's terminology, the resistors not. Repairing a defective tube was out of the question for almost everyone. Today, we have exactly the same situation in computers, except that the "tubes" are now called things like "PCI cards" and the "resistors" are things like power supplies and motherboards. (There are numerous differences, of course, such as the number of "tubes" and "resistors" in a typical computer is rather different, but I believe the principle is basically valid.) For most people, repairing a PCI NIC with a defective transceiver chip is as out of the question as repairing a valve with two grid accidentally shorted together would have been in the heyday of valve electronics. /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse(a)rodents.montreal.qc.ca / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B