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Forum: Reliability & Maintainability Questions and Answers

Topic: Reliability & Maintainability Questions and Answers

Topic Posted by: Reliability & Maintainability Forum (src_forum@alionscience.com )
Organization: System Reliability Center
Date Posted: Mon Aug 31 12:47:36 US/Eastern 1998

Original Message:

Posted by: Rick Johnson (rjohnson@systems.textron.com )
Date posted: Tue May 14 12:44:01 US/Eastern 2002
Subject: Long term storage of Laptop Computer
Message:
Are there any issues with the long term (upto 10 years) dormant storage of laptop computers? Hard drive sticking, etc.

Reply:

Subject: Long Term storage of laptop computers
Reply Posted by: Marina Karyagina
Date Posted: Wed May 15 22:28:57 US/Eastern 2002
Message:
That probably will not help much but we in our family got a 1983 PC (386) and an even older Mac. In the last 6 yrs both were used only intermittenly spending most of the time stored in boxes either in a house or in a shed but protected from dust. They both still power on and work when we try although the PC had a Y2K glitch. Can you treat this as field data with a sample of 2? I can't see why laptops would behave differently from desktops.

Reply:

Subject: Long term storage of Laptop Computer
Reply Posted by: Allan (Allan@ramsconsultants.com )
Date Posted: Tue May 21 14:45:17 US/Eastern 2002
Message:
Over the past few years, the most common problem I have had with older unused computers is the cmos memory battery failing.