3 Nov
2011
3 Nov
'11
5:15 p.m.
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:
They probably think they have gold in them that they
can profit from.
Little do they realise the boards in SEs and SE/30s don't have any
IIRC ;)
Gold plating is, and was, pretty common to prevent corrosion in connectors,
sockets and pins. However you only need an incredibly thin layer of gold to
be effective. An entire computer system using completely gold plated
connectors probably only contains a few micrograms of gold.