[vcf-midatlantic] vcf-midatlantic Digest, Vol 10, Issue 15

Dean Notarnicola dnotarnicola at gmail.com
Fri Mar 15 19:26:13 EDT 2019


That would be a great topic. Bil is a fan fav and I think any topic he did
would be a draw.

On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 7:16 PM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 6:53 PM Evan Koblentz <evan at vcfed.org> wrote:
>
> >  >> How is soldering a narrow topic?
> >
> > It was surface-mount soldering.
> >
> > The makerspace will do their usual learn-to-solder workshop during the
> > show.
> >
> > I will see if Bil wants to teach anything else this year.
> >
>
> Maybe Bill wants to do a topic like this one on hackaday:
>
> https://hackaday.com/2019/01/24/video-putting-high-speed-pcb-design-to-the-test/
>
> It's basically about a misunderstanding on the effects of heat and aging. A
> lot of hobbyists are interested in finding ways to prolong the life of
> decades computer systems, with their chips, caps drying out, etc..  He
> argues that the failure isn't poor design or heat, but the shock of turning
> on a chip that breaks it .
>
>
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> =========================================
> Jeff Brace
> Vice President
> Vintage Computer Federation
>


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