My Collection - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

13 Apr 2001

On April 13, LFessen106(a)aol.com wrote:
...
    So far I've found endless fascination in chips
and power transistors.
 But, the most unbelievably fascinating thing that I've seen in that
 scope was something I thought would be boring...a blown tungsten lamp
 filament!  I just did some quick scans of some of the
 electromicrographs I've done lately.  They can be seen at
 http://www.neurotica.com/sem/images if you're interested.  The blown
 tungsten lamp filament pics are filament-1.jpg and filament-2.jpg.
 >  
 Dave,
 Just out of curiosity, have you found any of that microart burned on I.C.'s yet?

  Lots of it.  Most of it is fairly well-documented though, so I
haven't bothered photographing any of it.

  I've enjoyed hunting around chips to find manufacturers' logos,
though.  That's always fun.  Tooling around with the X and Y stage
controls, until a big "W" Westinghouse logo pops up...cool!

  I'm really hoping to find a dead J11 chipset to decapitate.  I have
several J11-based boards here but I can't stand the idea of
sacrificing one in that manner.  If anyone here has a spare J11
chipset or a known-dead board containing one, I'd love to talk deal
for it.

             -Dave McGuire