There are a set of tantalum capacitors which have failed, and the replacements she’s using turn out to have problems too. They’re a period part for a project of this age, but we might have ...

However, although the computer might have functioned even with the capacitor fitted the wrong way around, enthusiasts replacing it with a tantalum capacitor might find themselves in trouble.

A capacitor made out of the precious metal tantalum. The silver-gray tantalum beads, in the form of compacted powder, can store a lot of charge relative to their mass. This enables smaller ...