[BC] Never Mind BE boards, How 'bout a RAMKO?!

[Gary Peterson]

I've still got one, buried in a pile of junk, somewhere.  At one time (late
70s), I had to keep two of these Ramko consoles working.  One, five pot,
mono in the newsroom and one eight pot, stereo in a prod room.  

Most of the flaky behavior was due to the edge connectors on the plug-in
circuit boards.  They were bare copper, which tended to oxidize.  After each
edge connector was treated with electro-less tin plating solution, there
were a lot fewer problems.  Ramko  was one of the few manufacturers that
made liberal use of non-polarized electrolytics.  I didn't develop much
affection for the stuff, though.

Gary, KØCX    

" Probably a good reason for not seeing one in a while, 20 years ago they 
took an average of 30 mins a day of repair / cleaning to keep them 
working. By now I would expect that to be 23 hrs work to get 30 mins of 
use.
-- 
Alan Alsobrook CSRE AMD CBNT "