Re: (PM) ram for PM3 (fwd) (fwd)

Geoff Winkless (gw-pm@farmline.com)
Wed, 15 Dec 1999 16:20:27 -0000

"Christopher E. Brown" <cbrown@denalics.net> writes:

> On Tue, 14 Dec 1999 mail2news-portmaster-users@csulb.edu wrote:
> On a boat in saltwater you can see a reaction between
> aluminium and steel in days (this is why a buffer material is normally
> used), in a memory system more than a few months.
>
> Most of the failures I have seen were well after the year mark
> when the buildup started causing memory errors.

Matthew Black writes:
> None of which answers my original question: how long does it take
> for the contacts to corrode? My PM3 is not swimming in the ocean nor
> is it water cooled.

So which part of the previous paragraph did you not understand? More than a
few months and generally over a year.

Geoff

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