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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
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Subject: Re: Y3K for PDP-11 Operating Systems
Date: 4 May 2011 10:58:32 -0400
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Richard B. Gilbert <rgilbert88@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>I disposed of my "TRASH 80" and replaced it with a used Rainbow 100. 
>The lack of a few milligrams of gold plating made the TRASH 80 a 
>nightmare.  Tin oxidizes and did so on critical connectors!

The GC "Nickel Print" kit fixed that problem nicely.  I made good money
nickel-plating the edge card connectors on Model Ones back when they were
new.
--scott
-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."