[PDP8-Lovers] how to clean a PDP8/A, dishwasher?

From: Boatman on the River of Suck <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Sat Dec 15 03:39:49 2001

On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Jeffrey S. Sharp wrote:

> On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Matthew Sell wrote:
>
> > I know that a good percentage of you are skeptical. Every one of my
> > games in my arcade collection had at least the CPU boardset in the
> > dishwasher. Several others had every single board through the wash.
> > All of them work, and did so before going into the dishwasher and
> > immediately after drying. Others had the monitors powerwashed. I took
> > an entire 11/780 out into my driveway and I powerwashed the chassis
> > AND backplane!
>
> I thought we weren't supposed to use the dishwasher on anything with
> capacitors.

It's fine, as long as the capacitors aren't charged.

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Sat Dec 15 2001 - 03:39:49 GMT