Posted By
Luca
on 2024-01-22
02:07:30
 |  Re: Keeping it safe?
Frank, those machines had been made with an hypothetical warranty of 5 years. Yes, FIVE YEARS. Taking in count that the Plus/4 has celebrated its 40th anniversary few days ago, my suggestion is: use'em like hell! All the machines are going to die, and if you don't use'em, they're going to die the same, due to the obvious migration of material from one side of the semiconductor at environmental temperature.
Enjoy your Plus/4 while its alive and kicking, and only use some good manners to let it live a joyful old age (e.g.: avoid to attach/detach the joysticks with their tiny circular cable because any possible sparkle may reach directly the TED).
For your knowledge, we debated about this "how-to" sooo many times, there are two parties of thoughts. Start from here, a thread which starts from a practical study about the usage of heatsinking on the main ICs.
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