PAM computer, Convergent?

From: jpero_at_mail.cgo.wave.ca <(jpero_at_mail.cgo.wave.ca)>
Date: Tue Jul 15 09:41:04 1997

> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 12:53:55 -0600
> Reply-to: classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu

> Allison wrote:
> >
> > ->On the OUTSIDE, in their scrap yard, is where most of the computer
> > ->stuff ends up. I once found a WICAT *and* an EXORCISOR II out
> > ->there-- both filled with water. (Sob!).
Waaaah! No! :(

> > Heh, I would have used that to get them cheap. Then I'd take them home
> > wash them out throughly and disassembled and dried them well. Generally
> > water is not that damaging. Just done power them wet.
> >
> > Allison

> Yeah, but when those chip leads get corroded and all the aluminum
> parts have this white, fluffy oxide all over them, and when you
> see trails of oxide where the foil pattern *USED* to be, it's time to
> hang it up . . .
>
> Jeff
About this, do not forget about the leaking backup batteries for
static memory settings...waaaah! Green jiggles where traces used to
be...

Jason D.
Received on Tue Jul 15 1997 - 09:41:04 BST