8 Oct
2007
8 Oct
'07
12:09 p.m.
"William Donzelli" <wdonzelli at gmail.com> wrote:
The caps from 1960s seem to be of little concern, and
those from past
1970 are of no concern. If the cap decides to die, its going to die.
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This was not the experience of the PDP-1 team during the restoration of
that machine. Detailed records were kept of every cap that was reformed.
This process took several months to perform.
Blowing up a cap in the machine during restoration was not an option.
Lyle, or one of the other hardware folks would know the details.
I am disappointed at the 'let it just blow up' attitude that has been
expressed on this list so far in the discussion.