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From: daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang)
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Subject: Re: RE>Re- The Old Octo-RAM card: EPROM burner
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Date: 30 Jan 91 15:08:33 GMT
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In article <12199.27a04b8b@ecs.umass.edu> giovin@ecs.umass.edu writes:
=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.
=> 
=> 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.

Those traces would be pretty hard to draw/photograph or whatever. I like the
matter duplicator idea better :-)