10 May
1999
10 May
'99
2:37 p.m.
If you had a pile of impossibly dirty DEC Q-Bus
boards,
what would you do? (This includes the usual disk controller card,
CPU/IO/Memory extender, a couple of corestacks, the backplane,
and the regulator card).
For everything except the core stack, I wouldn't hesitate to run them
through the dishwasher and gently dry. The core stack should be treated
substantially more delicately.
If you want to see "impossibly dirty", you ought to see some 11/23's that
I was maintaining at a solar cell plant. Absolutely incredibly quantities
of incredibly fine aluminum dust over everything - in some cases built up
over a quarter inch thick - yet they kept on (for the most part) working.
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