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Originally Posted by RWood
My reference was not to the Reader (I agree with you that they are not sealed) but to hard disk drives which are sealed. Once, long ago and far away, the platters of a hard disk (like the RPO-9s of the mainframe era) were exposed and you had to be very careful around them. Today's units are sealed from the factory and unless you open them or remove the seals they are not exposed to the elements.
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Yea, I worked on some of those. 30 megs of storage the size of a washtub. The unit itself was the size of a washing machine. No smoking in the computer room.
However, it is possible for smoke to interfere with connectors, sockets and other electronic items inside a reader but it would probably take years to see any effect.
I had a friend (work associate) that used to refurb Ampex commercial tape recorders. The first thing he did was take them all apart, then run all the circuit boards and cables through his dishwasher at home, replace all of the capacitors, and rebuild them. They always worked like new.
Dale