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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!"

13 of 256 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Mold? That's nothing. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Wuss.

  2. Ever wonder what not to do with a vic-20? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Read about tubgirls experience with a certain breed of insects.

    1. Re:Ever wonder what not to do with a vic-20? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Thats a cool website. I am a girl and I'm glad their is such a great female oriented website with such a big community around it.

  3. Re:University of Amsterdam? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    No but this is.

  4. Re: Humble Replies by AnimeRulez · · Score: -1, Troll

    1. If the Netherlands has so much money, as you claim, then why can't they afford new computers?
    2. A museum should contain items that are interesting to others. How many would venture into a junkyard of mold computers to look at the "exhibits?"
    3. Perserving crap serves no purpose. Why not start a museum of Gremlins, Pintos, Festivas, Yugos... (See my other posts)
    AR

  5. Re:A Fair Evaluation by AnimeRulez · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is an obvious troll, but I will take the bait becase I, like Linus Torvalds in his famous flamewar, must educate you...
    Are you from Florida? There has not been a valid reason to use punch cards for the last twenty years. Any information stored on punch cards is old and therefore worthless. Those cards are best preserved in a landfill.
    I hope this kind rebuke will set you on the true path.
    AR

  6. Re:Insert stoner response here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sounds like a landfill filler to me! Ban it now!

  7. I guess I didn't....... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    It's get nigger time *common ass techno beat from the Matrix drops in*

    Get nigger time!

  8. Remember Barney Cantrell and The Gay Porn? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hey, you know Barney, right? Well, it turns out that he has gay porn in his house.
    And we know he looks at it, because we checked the tape. That's right, the Barney Cantrell who does
    all the work on the trucks and drives that fifty-dollar piece of shit S-10 with the 2.8V6.

    That's right. Gay. gay. GAY Gay Gay Gay.

    Oh yeah, he wears women's pants. How's that for genuine, ass-pumpin' gay? Sounds gay to me. I heard he painted his toenails. That's gay.

  9. 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

  10. Re:Hermetically sealed vacuum - good idea! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    suck the sperm out my sac and you'll be able to preserve your reputation as a cumguzzling queer, you fat piece of shit.

  11. Re:Keyboards-AOL user reply. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    "(just remember to remove the circuitry, m'kay?)"

    *blink*blink*
    Circuitry??

  12. You are all bumheads by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    And you smell of dogs, american yankee pigbums.