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Title: Plastic yellowing in the dark - WTF?
Post by: Half-Saint on Sat, 27 November 2010, 04:09:02

I pulled my Amiga 500+ out of storage yesterday only to find out it turned piss-yellow!!1one What I don't understand is how that happened? It was kept under the bed this whole time, inside a plastic bag. I thought that the yellowing came from the exposure to UV? I keep most of my collection under the bed and I'm now scared to look at the rest of it!

SainT

Title: Plastic yellowing in the dark - WTF?
Post by: keyb_gr on Sat, 27 November 2010, 06:49:25

http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/189
http://retr0bright.wikispaces.com/

Title: Plastic yellowing in the dark - WTF?
Post by: microsoft windows on Sat, 27 November 2010, 08:52:37

My Gateway2000 computer yellowed in a similar way to you r Amiga. The plastic front of the tower yellowed both on the outside and the inside, and also got very brittle. It's probably just from getting old. The computer ought to work fine though.

Title: Plastic yellowing in the dark - WTF?
Post by: ricercar on Sat, 27 November 2010, 11:25:38

Quote from: ripster;252933

Please  see the Second Law of Thermodynamics and the Entropic Irreversibility of Nature.

Laws of Thermodynamics
1) You can't win.
2) You can't break even.
3) You can't get out of the game.

Title: Plastic yellowing in the dark - WTF?
Post by: microsoft windows on Sat, 27 November 2010, 12:17:30

It's pretty clear in your signature that you gave up on yellowed keys long ago...