5 Aug
2006
5 Aug
'06
4:49 p.m.
On Saturday 05 August 2006 02:34 am, Segin wrote:
FWIW, nor have I (and I've been working on equipment of similar age too).
I am told the modern lead-free solders can have reliability problems,
certainly if misused, but AFAIK all older Macs were assembled with normal
lead/tin solder.
I;'ve got a couple of Mac+ machines. One has a low-emission CRT, the
other hand the well-known problem on the yoke connector. Neither has had
any problems with the digital side.
-tony
Well, I've owned a Mac Plus 1MB and a Mac
SE/30 before, but they got
dumpstered after stuff started falling apart. Literally. I opened up the
Plus only to find that the CPU has literally *disintegrated*. A lot of
the capacitors and resistors were lying on the mobo cause their sodder
has worn away...
I've been a tech for coming up on four decades now, most of that time having
my hands inside of the hardware of one sort or another, and the earlier
stuff had vacuum tubes in it, on up to current technology.
And I've *never* seen anything like what you describe here, or heard of such
a thing either.