My Feet Are Melting

[frisco]

Anyone else have melting feet on old computer gear? Anyone know what causes it?

At work, some of our gear, mostly 10+ year old Sun gear and old HP DDS drives, have melting feet - the rubbery feet on the bottom of the cases has been turned into a goo a little bit thicker than silly putty and nowhere near as fun. I'm wondering if it is heat and/or old age that causes this. Not all of our old gear has had this happen, just some old sparc 5's and old drive cases. Some have been in really hot places, some haven't, so i can't really find a common stream.

Anyone else seen this?

[bsdjunkie]

Ive had that on older sun hardware... Finally got sick of it and threw out a keyboard. Was making a mess.... :roll:

[soup4you2]

i still love old sun hardware...

got a disk pack from sun w/ 4 scsi drives in it on a raid 5.

needs new drives though... why does scsi have to be soo damm expensive.

[v902]

Oldest thing I have is a 6 year old i586....

[Strog]

Vlad902:
Oldest thing I have is a 6 year old i586....


So you mean around half your lifetime old?? :wink:


I have an Apple Mac Centris 610 up and running from '93 and my old Apple IIgs(1986) is still humming along at my mother's place. She still uses it over the PC I built her. I'm sure that 2.8Mhz/1.75mb ram machine is much better than a modern PC. 8)

[soup4you2]

i think somewhere in a box i have one of those really old atari computers.. you know the ones that boot to basic off a rom.. + the game cartrage thing.. used to have a cassette tape drive for it but god only knows where that ended up

[frisco]

At my mom's i have a TSR-80 color computer, but i don't think it works anymore. I also have a Mac SE/30 which i used to use with a scsi<->ethernet adapter and a b&w connectix quickcam to make a webcam. The feet haven't melted on either the TSR or the mac... i wonder why Sun skimped on its rubber feet.

[v902]

So you mean around half your lifetime old?? :wink:

Bassicly, we got when I was 7, so yeah you could say :D I'll check the exact date when it was made on the BIOS and post it here when I get the time.

[elmore]

I have a trash 80 at my folks house, I have no idea if it still works. I loved that thing when I got it.

My oldest working computer is a next turbo station given to me by krusty of course. It works and I even use it some. Mmmmm Omniweb and write-up now those are some good apps, let's not forget our good networking friend netinfo, and simple network starter which krusty and minion kindly dubbed as simple network destroyer.

[Punk Walrus]

Oldest working? Atari 1040ST, circa 1986, I think.

Oldest PC? Working "luggable" (before portable) Compaq Personal III. It's a 286/10mhz with 2.5mb RAM, a 20mb hard drive, and a orange-on-navy glowing plasma screen. Ooooh....

Picture Here: http://www.punkwalrus.com/cybertusk/pix/compaq_pIII.jpg

Oldest non-working? Well... in the computer room, we tried to make an abacus faster by putting a heat sink on it and hooking it up to the LAN. But it was later shown to not be an abacus per se, but a Playskool wooden counting toy from the 1960s, so we blamed Microsoft and quickly changed the subject.

Picture Here: http://www.punkwalrus.com/cybertusk/pix/e20_abacusLAN.jpg