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From: jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,rec.ham-radio
Subject: Re: Modifying Electronics, LED clocks, Hobbies
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Date: 10 Dec 88 18:53:46 GMT
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Reply-To: jbn@glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle)
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      Often, if you look real hard, and you get lots of databooks, and you
call people at semiconductor companies, and you have an adequate knowledge
of spoken technical Japanese, you can get inside consumer electronics and
do things.  Rather than taking apart a Fisher-Price camcorder, for example,
you can get the chips from Sanyo.  Rather than trying to use a TV set as
a monitor, you can get a flat-screen small monitor from Sony left over
from their Watchcam line.  It's not hopeless.  But it's not easy.

					John Nagle