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Problems in Computer Conservation

Posted by michael on from the don't-make-em-like-they-used-to dept.

sobachatina writes "The Computer museum at The University of Amsterdam has an interesting page with examples of the problems that they run into maintaining 20+ year old hardware such as rubber rollers from card readers melting or mold growing inside CRT terminals.I hate it when I get mold growing inside my monitor!"

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  1. In Soviet Russia.... by madmarcel · · Score: 0, Troll

    No sorry, no lame SOVIET RUSSIA jokes...leave those for someone else comrade ;)

    (this bit next is from memory, apply correction if am to be mistaken ;-)

    HOWEVER:

    I am watchink a documentary on Russian space program a while back and it turns out that Russians are/were still usink equipment from the 1950's and 1960's! Huge clunky old mainframes...vacuumtubes...you name it. It occurs to me that they would know quite a bit about keeping old cra^H^H^H priceless antiques in operatink condition :-D