25 Nov
2006
25 Nov
'06
3:54 p.m.
At 4:27 PM -0600 11/25/06, aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Hi all,
Just came across this page (well, someone
posted it to another email group) and thought
some of you might like to take a look at it.
http://www.science.uva.nl/museum/rampspoed.html
Among the usual rubber turning to liquid/sticky
stuff are dirty keyboards (under the keys),
mould on old monitors and a harddrive that
is damaged beyond repair :(
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
And you think your data is safe? For how long... (ducking).
I have similar trouble in my day job which is restoring early arcade
games from the 1960's and 70s. Most of the nylon gears have failed,
and also the gears are all seized in the motors due to dried up
grease.
Oddly enough the old logic boards seem to keep working, have a few
games from the very early 70's (Computer Space and Pong that are
quite serviceable. so much for the old time theory that cosmic rays
led to TTL failures as these boards would all be dead if that was the
case.
John :-#)#