Awesome work and great to have the photos on the site. I replaced them on my smiley 5000s and was surprised by the range of 'burning' on those resistors. One pair was pretty bad, the other not so bad.

I have an old pair of 18-bitters that are pushing 30 years old and those resistors still look great. I wonder why the resistors on the 24/96 seem to go bad faster?

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