From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf at siconic.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 6:39 PM
On Tue, 31 May 2005, Tony Duell wrote:
It's
the irreversable stuff I don't like - people cutting holes in
cases
or tracks on PCBs to modify them etc.; reversible things I have no
But PCB tracks can be easily un-cut -- just solder a piece of wire over
the break. Wire-wrap wire (stripped, of course) is ideal for this.
Tony, I'm calling you out: this is utter and complete bullshit.
You would advocate physically marring a board as "reversible" since you
could "solder a piece of wire over the break", but someone swapping screws
is permanently altering a machine's make-up?
Please tell me you're joking.
--
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
Festival
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Many PC boards have had mods that are later reversed. Anyone looking at the
repaired boards can see that it was done to put the board back to the
original state, the same can not be said if a screw is replaced.
Randy