At 08:25 PM 4/27/01 -0700, Zane wrote:
One of the scarriest packages I've ever recieved
was some PDP-11 Q-Bus
boards a few years ago. They were wrapped in Tin Foil!!! I mentioned this
on the list at the time, and IIRC, the consensous was this was safe.
However, it's not something I'll ever do.
Hmmm.... do you know what a "Faraday Cage" is? You can't go safer
than that.
Of course, it the PCB has some kind of NVRAM battery on it whose
power lines happen to run on one of the surface planes....
Out of curiousity, how safe is dry newspaper?
Pretty bad. It is thin, a (relatively) good insulator
depending on humidity and purity... which means that rubbing
on the outside might be enough for triggering a small discharge inside
that will blast that sub microns-wide oxydized silicon insulator at
one of the gates of your precious chip...
Zane
carlos.
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