Re: [NTLK] Disassembly Surprises

From: Jim Witte (jswitte_at_bloomington.in.us)
Date: Fri Nov 05 2004 - 18:33:31 PST


On Nov 5, 2004, at 1:27 AM, Josef Chessor wrote:
> On opening it up, I discovered a rather horrific sight. Iron
> oxide dust, rusty metal flashing on the IR package, and a rather
> nasty-looking circular corrosion on the ROM board's contacts. Well,

   How does this happen? From what I can imagine, the only way rusty
flashing on the IR package would be if it were under water (salt water
or impure water) for a long time..

Jim

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