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From: giovin@ecs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: RE>Re- The Old Octo-RAM card: EPROM burner
Message-ID: <12199.27a04b8b@ecs.umass.edu>
Date: 25 Jan 91 15:15:23 GMT
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In article <43151@ut-emx.uucp>, daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang) writes:
> In article <12183.279f6f30@ecs.umass.edu> giovin@ecs.umass.edu writes:
>>In article <14957@smoke.brl.mil>, gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>>>> In article <9101231720.AA18200@apple.com> EWINGRA@CTRVX1.VANDERBILT.EDU (Rick Ewing) writes:
>>>>>BTW, how can you pirate *hardware*???
>>
>>> Easy, you borrow a friend's card and run it through your matter duplicator.
>>
>>Actually, a friend of mine who worked as a service guy at an Apple
>>dealer used to copy chips he needed with what I think he said was an
>>"EPROM burner."  So, if you're handy, you could "copy" someone's
>>card.
> 
> Ah, but that only copies EPROMS. You would have to go buy a PCB, draw little
> traces on it, etch it, drill holes into it, buy your resistors/chips/capacitors
> and all that other stuff and solder them in... It's not very easy to do it
> that way. You can copy nintendo cartriges though :-)

Actually, that's what I meant when I wrote, "... if you're handy..."
Those resistors, capacitors, etc. could probably be easily obtained.