4 Jan
2010
4 Jan
'10
11:02 a.m.
Brian Lanning writes:
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 5:59 AM, Steven Hirsch
<snhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Does anyone know why the connectors were left off the board in the first
>> place? ?It seems kind of silly since they went to the effort to route the
>> signals and have the holes drilled.
>
> To save $0.50 per slot, I'd imagine.
This kind of thing makes me insane. I would have
gladly paid another
$1, or even $10, had they just put the parts on the board. I have a
hard time believing (i.e. prefer to believe) that this would be purely
a cost cutting move.
More insane things have happened. Witness the VAXstation II RC, where
RC stood for "reduced configuration". DEC took a perfectly normal Q-bus
Backplane, with installed edge connectors, then filled the edge connectors
with epoxy to prevent users from installing third-party peripherals. All
to sell at a price lower than the normal Microvax II's (about $6K IIRC.)
When DEC found out that folks were taking advantage of them by buying a
VAXStation II RC and swapping out the backplane, the responded by pouring
The epoxy so that it glued the backplane to the chassis, as well. A few folks
Got these and then managed to chisel out the old backplane.
Tim.
4 Jan
4 Jan
11:21 a.m.
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Shoppa, Tim <tshoppa at wmata.com> wrote:
More insane things have happened. Witness the
VAXstation II RC, where
RC stood for "reduced configuration". DEC took a perfectly normal Q-bus
Backplane, with installed edge connectors, then filled the edge connectors
?with epoxy to prevent users from installing third-party peripherals. All
to sell at a price lower than the normal Microvax II's (about $6K IIRC.)
When DEC found out that folks were taking advantage of them by buying a
VAXStation II RC and swapping out the backplane, the responded by pouring
The epoxy so that it glued the backplane to the chassis, as well. A few folks
Got these and then managed to chisel out the old backplane.
Sounds like the nintendo wii modding scene. Nintendo started putting
epoxy on the key chip the modders were targeting. Turns out you can
heat up the epoxy with a small torch and it pops right off.
brian
4:08 p.m.
cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org wrote:
When DEC found out that folks were taking advantage of
them
by buying a VAXStation II RC and swapping out the backplane,
the responded by pouring The epoxy so that it glued the
backplane to the chassis, as well. A few folks Got these and
then managed to chisel out the old backplane.
There was a company round here (Oxford UK) that used to remove
the glue for a fee (I'm told; I was never told who they were though).
Antonio
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