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Re: [ARSCLIST] Interesting WSJ Article on when libraries should discard their holdings.



Boy, do caps age! I restore audio equipment and caps are behind 75% of the problems I encounter.

Don Cox wrote:
On 06/01/07, Tom Fine wrote:
Don, this makes no sense. An occurance that would decimate every copy
of every digital data would definitely destroy all other matter, too.
Books and records burn faster than computers, last I checked.

Digital data needs a supply of electricity to be read. It needs a working monitor to be viewed.

After twenty years of Dark Ages, not much of the current gear will be
still usable. Capacitors age.

Regards


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