I don't believe this ****

From: Charles E. Fox <foxvideo_at_wincom.net>
Date: Tue Jan 6 08:43:24 1998

At 01:52 AM 1/6/98 +0000, you wrote:
>Eyes glazes over thinking what it looks like 1k years later in
>landfills. Badly yellowed board and plastic, crumbling at a touch,
>all traces gone, thin parts eaten away, thick layer rust covering
>seized up drives, riddled with rustout holes in cases, blackened
>glass. Hard and darkened as soapstone that once was solder joints.
>Mass of green strings with bits of faded colored platic material
>hanging on in rags was former wires. Some crushed byond
>understanding, holding up a part, "what this?" And there's the
>thing,...ow! bitten by still charged tube! :) lots of rotted,
>more-less bodies of chips with legs all eaten away rattling around...
>
>Ah!
>
>I have seen the plastic rot (dulling on the plastic chips), anyone
>have seen this?
>
>Jason D.
>
>
        I once had a Philips tape recorder brought into my shop for repairs that
had been buried in a back yard. (?) Even after a short period of time it
was a very sick machine.
        Also,(off topic, please forgive me, Bill) the mind boggles at the thought
of the civic officials who bury vhs tapes in time capsules, to be dug up in
a hundred years!!!

                                                        Regards
                                                        Charlie Fox
Received on Tue Jan 06 1998 - 08:43:24 GMT

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