Anything that has Capacitors in it which use wet electrolytic, can dry out with age. Old stereos that crackle when you turn up the volume are an example. In motherboards though it seems it's more a problem that capacitors blow up and bulge out which is probably from usage rather than idle age.
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 29 January 2012 16:21, Mark Morgan Lloyd > <markmll.fpc-pas...@telemetry.co.uk> wrote: >> >> My experience is that both media and drives suffer with age, even if not >> being used. > > I can imagine that might be for the disk, but not the drive itself. I > recently cleaned up my garage and found a crate full of old hardware > (boxes and boxes of 5.25" and 3.5" floppies, 2 5.25" floppy drives, > 286 motherboard, 1x 84MB HDD, very old software and games etc...). The > floppy drives and diskettes still worked. :-) > > No idea what I must do with all this old stuff though.... Does anybody > collect such stuff? > > @Florian > Definitely try to preserve such old software releases. If you can, you > should upload it to SourceForge. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
