Disasters and Recovery

On 17 Jan 1999, Eric Smith wrote: Sure, but oxidation is the enemy of lubricants, right? It's one thing to talk about survival of machines in daily use or in typical environments and another to talk about survival inside a sealed gas filled chamber. If the archivists haven't already done so, it'd be a good move to simply list the corruptive influences and which components were suseptible. My guess that gravity is going to be a problem for some components, like disk drives. Influences Components Fix -------------------------------------------------------------- O2 all inert gas and damn good seal H2O all desiccants and damn good seal gravity mechanical ? int. chemical batteries eliminate l/t chemical doped SiO2 ? thermal all temp control (good luck!) shock all don't bury in California magnetic... cosmic... -- Doug