I've got a lot of old(er) HP and Tek test gear. Built to last, the manuals 
include schematics and theory of ops, and they still perform. 

It's not the old electrolytics that scare me -- it's the old EPROMs. All those 
wonderful micro-based instruments with their extensive self-test on startup 
routines -- sooner or later enough of that trapped charge will leak out, and 
bits will start flipping... 

What to do? Pop out the parts and rewrite them? Dump them to disk as well? 

bob k6rtm 


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