On Thu, 31 May 2007, Grant Stockly wrote:
  I remember a document from the 80s that described
how to take a DRAM chip,
 decap it, and use it as a crude camera.  I think I remember something about
 a lens too.  It might have been a joke...
 This would have to be a ceramic type DRAM chip to be decapped by an
 individual (easily).
 Does anyone know what I'm talking about or have the document?  I thought it
 sounded fun.  : ) 
 Ciarcia's column in Byte 
There was at least one UK computer magazine which carried such a project too -
unfortunately I can't remember which one, let alone which year :-( I suspect
it was later than the Byte one.