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[Roy J. Tellason]

On Saturday 05 August 2006 02:34 am, Segin wrote:
> Well, I've owned a Mac Plus 1MB and a Mac SE/30 before, but they got
> dumpstered after stuff started falling apart. Literally. I opened up the
> Plus only to find that the CPU has literally *disintegrated*. A lot of
> the capacitors and resistors were lying on the mobo cause their sodder
> has worn away...

I've been a tech for coming up on four decades now,  most of that time having 
my hands inside of the hardware of one sort or another,  and the earlier 
stuff had vacuum tubes in it,  on up to current technology.

And I've *never* seen anything like what you describe here,  or heard of such 
a thing either.

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