From: Ed King ------------------------------------------------------ now that cooler weather is here, I'm taking some time "off" from the car projects and spending some time to rediscover my computer collection, most which I haven't fooled around with in years So I open up a storage tub that contains some apple/mac stuff and to my horror/amusement, both of the powerbook 190 laptops inside have green slime coming out of them. capacitor leakage? "it just works... until it doesn't work"

=============================================================== From: Tim Youngblood ------------------------------------------------------ Ectoplasm?

=============================================================== From: Mike Harrison ------------------------------------------------------ Laughing that was my first thought. Steve Jobs's Ectoplasm specificially. Green implies copper, might just be corrosion. I have a small device that recovered from such, but then got flaky later.