grinding down chips was Re: QX10 graphics board - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

29 Jan 2006

On Jan 28 2006, 12:42, Tony Duell wrote:

...
  Ayone else remember the 'Optic RaM', a
poor-man's image sensor.

 >From what I remember they were a normal DRAM chip with a quartz lid to
...
  the package 
Yes, I remember them.  Steve Ciarcia wrote a Circuit Cellar article
about them.

...
  (it's been suggested you could take a cerdip 4116
or 4164,
 knock off the top and replkce it with a window). 
And indeed you could, though not all DRAMs were addressed in such
straightforward linear fashion as the "proper" one.  I had (still have,
I think) some Fujitsu 4116s you can do it with.

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