14 Mar
2005
14 Mar
'05
10:56 p.m.
Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
in the case of Qbus and Unibus boards, since the
fingers are gold, it has to be due to oxide build up on the backplane
pins.
Aren't the backplane contacts also gold-plated?
MS
15 Mar
15 Mar
12:08 a.m.
On Tue, 15 Mar 05 03:56:12 GMT, Michael Sokolov
<msokolov at ivan.harhan.org> wrote:
Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
Not from what I can see from looking in them.
-ethan
in the case of Qbus and Unibus boards, since the
fingers are gold, it has to be due to oxide build up on the backplane
pins.
Aren't the backplane contacts also gold-plated? 
8:55 a.m.
Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
Mine aren't. I have seriously reduced the number of random freezes (hard
disk light stays on, little red light on the controller comes on) by
removing all the cards, cleaning the edge connectors with contact cleaner,
buffing the surface with a pencil rubber, and reseating.
Dissolves sticky brown smoke goo. Seems that the previous owner of my PDP
was a fairly heavy smoker.
Gordon.
in the case of Qbus and Unibus boards, since the
fingers are gold, it has to be due to oxide build up on the backplane
pins.
Aren't the backplane contacts also gold-plated?
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