have you ever withnessed calculators not working anymore due to corrupted memory?

[pier4r]

(05-01-2017 05:25 PM)Geoff Quickfall Wrote:  Why they were dead, no idea. Wasn't solder joints as that is the first thing I check. Just dead. Static?

Geoff

I suppose that, aside from static discharges,electrical components lose the precision after a while. I remember that I studied (electronics, basic transistors) that quite a lot of electrons have to move through transistors, so after a while I think they will "erode" the capacity of some of them.