For IC's generally no, at work we run continuous
temperature cycle tests from -55 to 75 deg C
(military stuff) for years on end with very little IC
failure rate (granted, this is screened industrial
parts). Commercial IC's won't have any problems at -10
F. Mostly the problems we see are with slight timing
problems as CMOS slows down at high temperatures.
The mechanical stuff is another story, depends on
moisture the computers are seeing(rust, corrosion etc)
steve
--- Tom Uban <uban_at_ubanproductions.com> wrote:
> What experience have people had with computer
> equipment being stored
> in a unheated environment for 10-20 years, where the
> temperature runs
> from -10 to 100 degrees at the extremes of the
> seasons? Does this
> tend to kill ICs, caps, etc?
>
> --tom
>
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