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The gooey rubber that’s slowly ruining old hard drives (www.downtowndougbrown.com)
submitted 4 months ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/retrocomputing
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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The lack of forward thinking with rubber in and on electronics is a big ongoing bummer.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

I wish that someday we can pass down computing technologies like we do with heirloom watches or furnitures.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Sure made the line go up a liitle bit that quarter back then though.