4 Jan
2010
4 Jan
'10
11:35 p.m.
On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, Pete Turnbull wrote:
On 04/01/2010 19:46, Ethan Dicks wrote:
I wonder how many people tried to return these machines but were turned
down with "Gee, we can't take these back. Someone drilled holes in the
motherboard!".
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David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
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On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Mr Ian Primus
<ian_primus at yahoo.com> wrote:
Yup, the first two or three 3016's our college bought were fine, so we bought
ten (IIRC) more, and those ones came with added holes -- more like 3/8, from
memory. I used quite a lot of wire-wrap wire on those. Or the early Commodore PET computers with holes
drilled through the pads
for additional RAM chips. Of course, once again, nothing really stopping a
determined hardware hacker from bridging wires to the severed traces...
I have one of those - I wouldn't call them early - it was the "dynamic
PET" model that could take one or two rows of 4Kx1 or 16Kx1 DRAMs, so
long after the SRAM PETs (which I _would_ call early). If you bought
the 16K version, they sent you a board with a bunch of ~6mm holes
between the unused RAM spots.