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From: peg@psuecl.bitnet
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Batty monitors and cheap video
Message-ID: <58337@psuecl.bitnet>
Date: 4 Oct 89 05:27:45 GMT
References: <1989Sep28.122217.26867@watcsc.waterloo.edu> <57732@psuecl.bitnet> <3863@blake.acs.washington.edu> <57950@psuecl.bitnet>
 <1989Oct2.011535.23529@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: Engineering Computer Lab, Pennsylvania State University
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In article <1989Oct2.011535.23529@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
> In article <57950@psuecl.bitnet> peg@psuecl.bitnet writes:
>>... I still can't see ripping the top off of
>>an ordinary RAM--any way you do it is going to contaminate or destroy
>>some of the chip.
>
> According to the Weinstein book, it *can* be done.  The Robotics group
> at Case Western Reserve tried it in 1978, and found that it was not hard
> to avoid damaging the chip (given suitable packages -- plastic-packaged

Now I *really* feel silly!!  I went to CWRU for a year.  Gosh, I always
know there was *something* special about that place (besides the
Michaelson-Morley interferometer--which flopped).

Paul