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On 06/02/12 14:32, Gordon Henderson wrote:
I'g got a 486 from 1991 (?) which booted 6 months ago - I couldn’t find a small enough disk for it though.... electrolytics seemed fine. Not gel then...On Mon, 6 Feb 2012, tom wrote:Also twenty years ago things seemed to be designed to last - nowadays they're engineered to fail just outside of a reasonable lifetimeHm. I've recently gotten hold of some "vintage" computers - 30 years old and one thing that really doesn't last is the (electrolytic) capacitors in the PSUs (and elsewhere). So first job when restoring them is to replace the caps before they blow up, smearing crud all over the circuits and blowing up the old DRAM in the process..Gordon
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