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

[Don Cox <doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/01/07, Scott Phillips wrote:
> True... But much less of them in digital gear.... 
> 
On the contrary, capacitors are crucial in all digital circuits. They
provide the immediate power supply to the logic chips.
> 
> 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
-- 
Don Cox
doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx