Bob, Tell me about it! I have thrown away loads of early DIP ICs whose leads had almost completely rusted away. Some were spares that had been stored in the early conductive foam that turned out to be hygroscopic and disintegrated into sticky corrosive goop, but unfortunately some were actually in instruments still partly attached to the ICs.
Dave -----Original Message----- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Bob Camp Sent: 09 January 2010 15:00 To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] HP 5245L counter circa 1967 humor Hi <snip> > Just about all the leads on components of the era have enough iron in them to rust. <snip> Bob _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
