2 Aug
2001
2 Aug
'01
2:36 p.m.
On 2 Aug, Dave McGuire wrote:
On the table on the other side of this room I have a
Sun monitor
that I got from a surplus house for free. It had been sitting outside
fully exposed to the weather for upwards of six months. I've had it
for nearly five years; it's still going strong!
Once I found a Sun 3/160 CPU
card at the scrap yard. It was out in the
rain for -I don't know how long- and the iron parts like screws had
already collected some rust. I took the board home, washed it in the
shower, dried it, supplemented the missing chips (CPU, FPU, ...),
pluged it in and it did work as new.
The same for a 3c509 ISA NIC that was covered with mud. This card is
the secondary NIC in my main server for years now.
--
tsch??,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/