[rescue] Sun Kit Needed for EE Student Here

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 16:19, Wesley Will wrote:

> Bingo.  Two hundred bucks he's got.  Maybe even a bit more.  A G-bill
> he most assuredly doesn't have to spare.  Plus it will allow him to be
> exposed to something other than the Pee-Cee, and that's never a bad
> thing.  (As for 'old and developing problems,' the library and
> engineering departments here have tons of hardware of this vintage
> running in production for many years now, and thus far (knock on a
> Sequoia tree) none of these problems are cropping up on anything like
> a regular basis.

If you look at a U2 or U60 mobo the first thing you notice is that there
are hardly any capacitors, just chips.  Chips last much longer than
capacitors and are more resistant to environmental changes.

--Patrick

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