20 Sep
2010
20 Sep
'10
12:32 p.m.
On 20 Sep 2010 at 15:07, Marden P. Marshall wrote:
So it sounds like much of the vintage equipment that
this community
has been rescuing from the landfills will ultimately turn into dust,
in spite of our best efforts. And I thought that capacitors going bad
was a pain...
Cue Shel Silverstein "Pastic"...
Here's an interesting page about plastic conservation:
http://www.conservationregister.com/careplastics.asp?id=4
Also, check around for publications by the French POPART conservation
effort.
It'll all end up in the Pacific Gyre, I'm afraid. Centuries from
now, people will wonder how we lived.
I seem to be seeing the same thing happening with internet content.
Things I've bookmarked a decade or more ago can't be found in any
form online (not even in archive.org). Good thing that I saved some
of it.
--Chuck