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Re: Help! OS 7.6.1 onto a Q 840AV

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From: Alan W. Frame
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 00:00
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Rebecca and Rowland <real-address-in-sig@flurbletigibbet.rhubarb.foobar>
wrote:
> Alan W. Frame <alan.frame@acm.org> wrote:
> [snip]
> > Or a rubber.
> > - the little ones on the end of pencils are good, but the gritty
> > ones for rubbing out ink are better. :-)
> 
> Hmm.  I wouldn't use anything that was even slightly abrasive sounding
> on plated connectors.  The gold plating is typically 0.3 - 2.5 microns
> thick; not hard to scrape through.

True, but I don't *think* the edge connector for a 16K[1] ZX81
ram-pack was gold-plated.... :-)

rgds, Alan
[1] 50 quid for 16*Kb*  - BWWWWAAAAAHHHHAAAA!
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From: alan.frame@acm.org (Alan W. Frame)
Subject: Re: Help! OS 7.6.1 onto a Q 840AV
Date: 1997/12/24
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