MicroVAX 3100 booting question...

From: Carlos Murillo <cmurillo_at_emtelsa.multi.net.co>
Date: Fri Apr 27 22:00:36 2001

At 08:25 PM 4/27/01 -0700, Zane wrote:
>One of the scarriest packages I've ever recieved was some PDP-11 Q-Bus
>boards a few years ago. They were wrapped in Tin Foil!!! I mentioned this
>on the list at the time, and IIRC, the consensous was this was safe.
>However, it's not something I'll ever do.

Hmmm.... do you know what a "Faraday Cage" is? You can't go safer
than that.

Of course, it the PCB has some kind of NVRAM battery on it whose
power lines happen to run on one of the surface planes....

>Out of curiousity, how safe is dry newspaper?

Pretty bad. It is thin, a (relatively) good insulator
depending on humidity and purity... which means that rubbing
on the outside might be enough for triggering a small discharge inside
that will blast that sub microns-wide oxydized silicon insulator at
one of the gates of your precious chip...

> Zane

carlos.

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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo_at_nospammers.ieee.org
Received on Fri Apr 27 2001 - 22:00:36 BST