Re: cleaning
"Terry Yager" wrote in message:
> How much cleaning do you do on your classic
> systems? I used to very meticulously clean
> everything in my collection. I considered this
> "hands-on" stuff one of the joys of collecting.
> The last few years I haqve not been cleaning
> anything. Like other types of antique, I consider
> all that grunge as being part of the system.
> It's not crud, it's PATINA. How do others feel
> about this, should we clean them or not?
I put it down to what someone told me. They
suggested not to clean any dust which may
have gathered on the internal hardware &
mainboard, because you could easily damage
the hardware through Static Electricity. But
if it's kept there, then the same thing might
happen on it's own (I'm not too sure).
On my ol' Amstrad I keep dust covers over it.
Fortunately the Amstrad kinda resembles a
PC in shape & size (except the guts are in the
keyboard), so a Standard PC cover for monitor
& keyboard works just fine!
For my PC externally, I just blow the dust
off it. Though my monitor does some strange
stuff some of the time, it maybe dust which
is settling on something in particular inside it.
Cheers.
