So its time for who's got the oldest working active electronic component
competition. Two classes - Valves / Tubes and transistors / ic's
Regards
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Rod Smallwood
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-----Original Message-----
From: cctech-bounces at
classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech-bounces at
classiccmp.org]
On Behalf Of Tony Duell
Sent: 10 August 2012 19:51
To: cctalk at
classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: To all with interest in IBM 7090
Electronics are simply going to fail no matter if you
use them or not.
Most electronic components simply can't last forever.
Preciisely my point. Storing it and never running it will _not_ allow it
to last for ever. In fact you might well find that when it is turned on
sometime in the future, it deosn't run, and can't be made ot run again.
In which case you might as well have run it now and had some use out of it.
-tony