On Sunday 29 August 2004 05:54 pm, Sid Boyce wrote:
Reinforcing everything you say. Unfortunately the way the PC industry has developed, ESD has never figured because of the low cost of parts and the expectation and acceptance of failures.
Great Rant, but realistically, everything on most PCs still works when the users get tired of them and throws them away. When MoBos do fail its almost always a blown capacitor. Memory problems are even rare these days. We use to worry about every 78pin simm we touched, and had more than a few fail, but that was 10 years ago. The newer ram, and CPUs are seldom bothered by this. After 20 years in the business I've only seen 2 dead processors, one due to lightning, the other to user forcing it in the socket wrong. So in the vast majority of cases, the sensitivity to ESD has been engineered out of the computer products in general use. Now on the other hand, too much handling and my punchcards still get all warped and have trouble feeding thru the gate. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen