16 Feb
2002
16 Feb
'02
3:20 p.m.
Tom Uban wrote:
What experience have people had with computer equipment being stored
in a unheated environment for 10-20 years, where the temperature runs
from -10 to 100 degrees at the extremes of the seasons? Does this
tend to kill ICs, caps, etc?
--tom
Make that a tad colder -40F. The real problem is keeping the equipment
dry.
I don't expect HD's and Floppies would last too many seasons as bearings
would seize up. Rust and corrosion could also be a problem if near salt
water.
--
Ben Franchuk - Dawn * 12/24 bit cpu *
www.jetnet.ab.ca/users/bfranchuk/index.html