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Dr Jaymz said...

Yes, when I watch retro computing channels I think many don't know and we've perhaps all forgotten how fragile some chips were. It particular bad RAM, I would imagine, is almost always hidden damage that often doesn't fail immediately leading people to say "I've never had a problem with static damage", but they would be very wrong about that.
You see people unsoldering and popping each one into a RAM tester on a table with no ESD protection and a year or two later those chips become junk. Half were junk from the manufacturing process anyway back then!

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