At 09:04 AM 12/22/97 -0800, you wrote:
>At 09:22 12/22/97, you wrote:
>>I have several old HP computers that have done the same thing. Is there
>>any way to repair or restore the color?
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>No, there (currently) isn't. And the real bother isn't the discoloration,
>but the accompanying embrittlement -- I picked up a mustard-colored HP
>terminal once and had a piece of the case break off in my hand.
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>A bloke who was researching this at the Science Mus. in London wrote an
>article for the ANALYTICAL ENGINE in which he basically said that there was
>no reversing the effect, and the only way you could limit the deterioration
>was to keep the artifact in near-total darkness. I also asked the
>Smithsonian and they concurred with this.
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>Kip Crosby engine_at_chac.org
> http://www.chac.org/index.html
>Computer History Association of California
Does applying Armor-All or any of the other plastic preservatives
prevent the hardening? I've never tried it on the hard palstics, only vinyl.
Joe
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Received on Mon Dec 22 1997 - 14:35:02 GMT